EFL has developed a new solar PV recycling (SPR) tracker product. This is one of a number of trackers that we produce each month across different industries. Trackers are delivered in spreadsheet format, and are designed to offer a concise and insightful view of technical and commercial developments.
The subscription runs annually – and we already have the January 2023 edition available. The tracker contains an SPR company profile directory, SPR patent analysis for relevant patent filings published over the previous month, as well as all the main corporate developments. The corporate news categories include: company news, transactions news, legislative news, market news and research & innovation news. One spotlight article can be added per month for individual subscribers in their specific area of interest.
The SPR Tracker is a valuable product for strategic planners, researchers, solar PV manufacturers, recyclers and investors looking to get a fast view of this landscape.
The 2nd Edition – Winter 2022/ 2023 of Enabled Future Magazine available to our members has now been published.
This edition has the following feature articles:
🔵 EnabledPower: Enabling Future Metal Recovery in Photovoltaic Modules 🌍 EnabledCatalysts: Catalytic CO2 Activation Pathways 🟡 EnabledMetals: The Changing Fortunes of Rhodium – Can Chemical Catalysis Secure its Future? 🟢 EnabledCircular: Market Dynamics for Sustainable Glycerol Carbonate
🟡 ENABLED METALS ADVERTORIAL: Catalyst Recovery – A win-win for business, people, and the environment by Sky Metals
Plus, patent spotlights and news insights for each of the four verticals! Members also enjoy exclusive web content and a ticket to the 2023 Enabled Future Limited summer event.
Enabled Future Limited (EFL) is pleased to announce that it is introducing a new company membership programme which will begin on the 1st of November 2022 and will offer valuable insights for all four of the company’s market verticals
What does membership offer?
The membership offers the following benefits:
An annual subscription to the peer reviewed bi-monthly Enabled Future magazine, featuring news commentary and insights, patent analysis and spotlights, mini and full-length technology features for each of the four market verticals
Exclusive access to live news commentary, insights, webinars and podcasts on the new EFL web site which will be launched on 1st November 2022.
Free attendance at EFL’s Annual Technology Day on November 2nd, 2022, in London, UK with guest speakers and panelists for each of the four verticals
How does it work?
Membership can be purchased on an annual basis, granting you access to exclusive content from the moment of its release. The annual membership fee is £1,200 + VAT
Pre-orders are now available with a limited time offer for 3-month’s free membership with free entry to the EFL Technology Day on November 2nd in West Midlands, UK
To sign up for membership email sales@enabledfuture.com
Enabled Future Limited has signed an agreement to provide petrochemical industry training courses through London-based Mennta Energy Solutions. The first courses will be delivered in Q3 2022 with a virtual course to be held on 22nd-25th August 2022 and an in-person course on 17-19th September 2022 in London. For more information please contact course trainer – Dr Michelle Lynch
Enabled Future Limited to Produce the “Polymer Membrane Fuel Cell & Electrolyser Innovation & Patent Review” in conjunction with b-science.net
The forthcoming “Polymer Membrane Fuel Cell & Electrolyser Innovation & Patent Review‘ to be produced in collaboration by Enabled Future Limited and b-science.net is now ready for pre-sales. The report will offer unrivalled depth on the patented approaches for developing membrane fuel cells and membrane electrolysers assisted by a supervised machine learning (ML) approach, developed and already applied with great succes by b-science.net to the field of lithium ion batteries.
The report will cover Proton Exchange Membrane and Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC /AEMFC) – Electrochemically Active Materials as well as analogous electrolyser cells (PEMEL/AEMEL) – Electrochemically Active Materials.
Since 2017, b-science.net has been offering a popular information service to facilitate R&D decisions in the Li-ion battery community with the help of a supervised machine learning (ML) approach. It would like to offer this service also to the fuel cells & electrolyser community. b-science’s machine learning (ML) approach permits for the identification of patent applications with high commercial relevance, which allows for plotting of key technical decisions (innovation decision trees) and processes employed by various players. We also provide inspirations for novel and underexplored R&D approaches. Its service facilitates the successful launch of new products and is currently relied upon by industrial battery R&D / product management teams, academic research groups and venture capital investors based in America, Asia and Europe.
Rapid innovation in these categories is of key importance to ramp up green hydrogen production and use, in order to address climate change in a timely and effective manner.
The video introducing the Enabled Future Limited/b-science.net collaboration can be found at the following link:
Enabled Future Limited is delighted to announce its collaboration with Zurich-based b-science.net LLC for the expansion of its lithium-ion battery machine-learning based information services into the fuel cells and electrolyser space. The collaboration draws upon EFL’s vast experience in the catalysis, power-to-X and fuel cells sectors offered through its EnabledPower market vertical as well as its legacy skills in the provision of consulting based on patent and technical information analysis.
We very much look forward to working with the b-science.net team led by CEO, Dr Pirmin Ulmann. More details of the collaboration and the associated membrane fuel cell and electrolyser subscriber report, to be offered throught b-science.net, are provided in the following press release.
The Rare Earths Bi-Weekly News Bulletin is now available here. Read up on the great rare earth elements (REE) saga from love triangles to painful break-ups, beautiful new partnerships, and the birth of sweet new REE baby mines. Never a dull moment in this REEality biweekly news…
The biweekly rare earth patent bulletin is now available on the Rare Earth News website – click here for a 5 minute read on this year’s rare earth patent innovations to date.
Enabled Future Limited offers industry and patent tracking across all of its verticals. Please get in touch to discuss your needs and for a sample bulletin.
Recent Solid State Battery Patent Applications Filed by China’s BYD Published
A number of patent publications have appeared this year on solid state batteries (SSB) filed by China’s battery and electric vehicle OEM- BYD. The company whose name means “Build Your Dream” is the largest manufacturer globally of rechargeable batteries. It has already seen 167 of its patent filings published in 2021, according to data from the European Patent Office online patent database – Espacenet. Two documents were identified using machine translation which describe some of the innovations on SSB which BYD have sought to patent. CN112242519 describes a core-shell cathode active material (CAM) which includes an oxide of titanium in the formulation. The CAM has desirable properties including operation at high voltage, good cycling and rate performance. CN112242557 describes an SSB with an electrolyte consisting of a mixture of lithium-sulphide and tin sulphide which results in better safety performance and higher energy density – necessary for increasing the driving range and performance in operation for instance in an electric passenger car.
SSB are widely anticipated to be employed in the next generation of lithium ion batteries (LIB) and it is not surprising to see BYD’s R&D approaches appearing in the patent literature this soon into 2021. There are many different types of solid state electrolyte technologies including (Na) Super Ionic CONductor, (NASICON), LIthium Super Ionic CONductor (LISICON), Lithium Phosphorus Oxy-Nitride (LiPON), lithium nitride (Li3N), sulfide, argyrodite, anti-perovskite, garnet, perovskite, and many others.
CN112242519 (A) – A positive electrode material and preparation method thereof, and a solid-state lithium battery
Applicant: BYD Co. Ltd.
Publication Date: 19th January 2021
Machine Translated Abstract:
The present invention provides a cathode material with a core-shell structure, the core is a cathode active material, the shell includes a lithium-containing transition metal oxide and Ti2O3, and the ionic conductivity of the lithium-containing transition metal oxide is higher than 10 − 8S·cm-1, the lithium-containing transition metal oxide can remove lithium to form an oxide under a voltage higher than 3.0V, and the electronic conductivity of the oxide is higher than 10-6S·cm-1. The invention also provides a preparation method of the positive electrode material and a solid lithium battery. The cathode material can construct a lithium ion transmission channel and an electron transmission channel at the same time, which greatly improves the capacity development, first-lap coulombic efficiency, cycle performance and high rate performance of solid-state lithium batteries. Use of this technology enables good safety performance and higher energy density.
CN112242557 A – A lithium-ion battery solid electrolyte and its preparation method and solid-state lithium-ion battery
Applicant: BYD Co. Ltd.
Publication Date: 19th January 2021
Machine Translated Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a lithium ion battery solid electrolyte, a preparation method thereof, and a solid lithium ion battery. The electrolyte contains a substance with the chemical formula aLi2S-MS2·nH2O, where M is one or more of Si, Ge and Sn, and 1≤ n≤12, 1≤a≤2. The solid electrolyte of the present disclosure has good safety performance and higher energy density
