Agenda

Conference Opening

Mark Stevenson – Conference Chair: 20th Asian Battery Conference and Exhibition

Mind the Energy Storage Gap – is there Room for ‘Grey’ Battery Metal Lead to Play a Bigger ‘Green’ Role in Global Decarbonisation?

Mr Neil Hawkes – Principal Analyst, CRU, United Kingdom

Lead–Acid Batteries in Asia

Li Dong – Founder, Leoch International Technology Co., Ltd, Singapore

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ILM Presentation

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Polyethylene Separators Must Survive High Temperature Endurance (HTE) Testing

Dr. Jörg Deiters – Director of application & customer engineering in the Americas and EMEA, DARAMIC LLC, Germany

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Development of New Additives for Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid Batteries (VRLAB)

Dr Francisco Trinidad – Independent Advisor, Exide (formerly), Spain

Improvement in AGM for the Lead–Acid Battery to Assist China’s Target of Carbon Neutrality by 2060

Ms Du Xiaoying – General Manager, Hua Yang Industry, China

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Research and Optimization of Paste Formulation for Parking Air Conditioner Batteries Used for Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles

Pengfei Cui – Senior Engineer & Project Manager, Shandong Jinkeli Power Sources Technology Co., Ltd, China

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How Do We as an Industry Seize the Energy Storage System (ESS) Opportunity? Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI): Outlook and Efforts in Lead-Acid Battery ESS

Dr Matthew Raiford – Senior Technical Manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation, United States

A New Manufacturing Approach to Lead̶ Acid Battery Separators

Dr Richard Pekala – Chief Technology Officer, ENTEK International LLC, United States

Finite Element Simulation of Deformation of Lead-Acid Battery Positive Plates

Dr Jun Furukawa – Senior Adviser, The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd., Japan

Dr Attila Palfalvi – Branch Manager, Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology, Hungary

Tamas Poloskei – Engineer, SuperPower Inc. (former Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology), USA

LME ― Driving Sustainability and Managing Price Risk in Battery Metals

Mr Edric Koh – Head of Corporate Sales, Asia, London Metal Exchange, Singapore

Transportation Battery Forecast to 2030, Plus the Top Apps for Advanced Lead–Batteries

Ray Kubis – Chair, Gridtential Energy Inc., US

Lead–Acid Technology for E-Rickshaw Application — The Way Forward

Mr Subhankar Chakraborty – Vice President – R&D, Exide Industries Ltd, India

Mr Indrajit Majumdar – Senior General Manager – R&D, Exide Industries Ltd, India

Dual Chemistry Power System

Dr Michael Glenn – Principal Technical Development Officer, Battery Energy Power Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia

Ms Vaishnavi Yuvaraj – Product Development Engineer, Battery Energy, Australia

Dr David Brown – R&D Consultant, Battery Energy, Australia

Highly Electrochemical Stable Lead¬¬–Carbon Interface for Enhanced High-rate Cycle Performance of Lead–Carbon Batteries

Shu-Huei Hsieh – Huwei, Yunlin, National Formosa University, Taiwan

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Thin Tubular Lead–Acid Battery Technology (Flooded & amp; Gel) ― Workhorse for Long-Life Residential Energy Storage: Back-up Power with/without Solar in India, Africa. and the Middle East

Mr Amlan Kanti Das – Senior Vice President – Battery Operations & R&D, Luminous Power Technologies (P) Ltd., India

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PowerFill™ – A Novel AGM Separator to Improve Acid Filling and Battery Performance

Dr Yongzhi Wu – Advanced Scientist, Hollingsworth & Vose (Suzhou) Co.,Ltd, China

Impact of Lead–Acid Battery Cell Imbalance on Pack Performance for e-Rickshaw and Telecom Applications

Mr Sundar Mayavan – Principal Scientist, CSIR- Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India

Utilizing High–Energy X-Ray Imaging for Investigating Lead–Acid Battery Electrodes

Mr Chad Stone – PhD Student, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Peter Mahon – Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Rosalie Hocking – Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Russell Newnham – Chief Scientist, Electric Application Inc., Australia

Dr. Anthony Hollenkamp – Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia

Electrochemical Evaluation of Pb–Ca–SnSr alloy for Positive Grid of Lead–acid Battery

Mr. Ali Alagheband Hosseini – Technical Manager, Sarv Sanat Toos (SST Co.), Iran

Existing Situation Analysis of Intelligent Equipment and Intelligent Manufacturing of Storage Battery

Alex Huang – Technical Director, Better Technology Group Limited, China

New methods to extend service life of lead batteries in stationary energy storage and deep cycle applications, and increase their total energy throughput

The First Step to Developing the Next Generation Lead-Acid Battery: Positive Paste Structure

Mr Enqin Gao – Director of R&D, Hammond Group Inc., United States

Assessment of Carbon/Lignosulfonate Interactions on Lead― Battery Performance in the Absence of Cold-Crank Constraints

Dr Carter Abney – Technical Application Manager for Batteries, Borregaard USA, USA

Mr Tim McNally – Senior Strategic Advisor, Borregaard USA, USA

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Contemporary Applications for MOLECULAR REBAR® Products

Dr Paul Everill – Chief Technology Officer, Black Diamond Structures, USA

Advanced Red Lead and its Benefit for the Lead–Acid Battery Formation Process

Rainer Bussar – Head of Global R&D, PENOX, Germany

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Design Improvements and Manufacturing Processes for Achieving Ultra-Low Internal Resistance in Lead‒Acid Batteries

Mr Kalyana Sundaram – Technical Manager, Eternity Technologies

Dr Mark Stevenson – CEO, Eternity Technologies

Battery Water Loss – Counter Measures Outside the Plate Stack

Ingo Koch – Technical Director, Frötek-Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Deutschland

Innovation of Separation Technology to Meet the Need of Future Lead–Acid Batteries

Prof. Ming Zhang – Consultant, Huakang Eco-materials Co., Ltd, China

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Panel Session