Roar Hestbek Nicolaisen graduated in December 2018 with a Cand. Scient. In Chemistry from Aarhus University.
Roar has a special interest in technologies for grid scale energy storage. He has wordked with Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, Organic solidstate coin cells and synthesis of organic compounds for use in all Organic Redox Flow Batteries.
His vision is to help provide this missing component, energy storage, that will make it economical to have a society driven entirely by renewable energy.
Tim Andersen is fire safety engineer at Ramboll Denmark. He got his degree of Master of Fire Safety at Technical University of Denmark in June 2017.
The subject of his master thesis was a fire risk assessment of lithium-ion batteries for energy storage in residential homes. The thesis presents a semi-quantitative fire risk assessment of a 6 kWh lithium-ion battery stored in a garage. The garage was attached to a residential house. However, the principles of the analysis can also be used for larger lithium-ion batteries. The analysis considered different scenarios with hazards during normal use of the battery, misuse, damage, fires and thermal runaway. Some of the consequences was release of flammable and toxic gasses, high fire load, high fire effect and the fire brigade’s operation conditions.
Tim has a broad experience within fire safety for difference types for buildings such as offices, dwellings, hotels, airports etc. He also has some experience with fire risk assessment of tall buildings.
Eric C. Darcy, Ph.D, has spent his 30-year career at NASA in the areas of battery design, verification, and safety assessments for the rigors of manned spacecraft applications. As Battery Technical Discipline Lead at NASA-JSC, his main objective has been the development of safe, while high performing, battery systems with a deep focus on understanding, preventing, and mitigating latent defects that could lead to catastrophic cell internal short circuits. With National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) colleagues, he is co-inventor of the patented On-demand Internal Short Circuit Device that has provided significant design insights into the cell response during thermal runaway (TR), enabled valid battery TR propagation assessment, and received the prestigious R&D100 award in 2016.
He has led NASA’s design and test efforts for providing a path for developing safe, high performing Li-ion spacecraft batteries using small commercial cells. He was selected for a NASA Ambassador Fellowship in 2010 to spend 9 months with battery colleagues at NREL in Golden, CO. He was selected for a Navy Panel to guide the review and revision of their safety verification processes for naval deployment of large Li-ion batteries after their Advanced Seal Delivery Vehicle battery incidents in 2008. He’s been invited to give talks at numerous battery conferences, has over 30 publications and 2 patents, and has participated in audits of numerous Li-ion cell production lines across Asia and North America.
Ph.D, ChE, University of Houston, 1998
MS, ChE, Texas A&M University, 1987
BA, Chemistry, Pomona College, 1984
Dr. Fischer studied Physical Chemistry at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany. Since 2005 he worked with energy converters like fuel cells. He developed analytical instruments for PEM-fuel cells, like locally resolved micro- Raman probes for the detection of gases in PEM - fuel cells in collaboration with German Aerospace Center (DLR) Stuttgart and Center of fuel cell research (ZBT) in Duisburg.
Since 2011 he is the group leader of the Redox Flow Battery Group at the Applied Electrochemistry Department at Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT). In his position, he is responsible for the light-house project RedoxWind. In this project a 2MW/20MWh vanadium redox flow battery will be installed on the ground of Fraunhofer ICT. His research interests are vanadium as well as bromine chemistry as well as stack technology.
Email: clm@cleancluster.dk
Network Manager of the National Innovation Network Smart Energy.
Project manager Green Power Electronics (Baltic Sea Region)
Project Manager Innovation Platform Optimization in the Cooling Chain
Chief Project manager Clean Green Plan in regions Southern Denmark and Zealand
Board Member Danish Battery Society
Kim Rasmussen spent most of his career working with application of batteries. With Chartec Labs. from 1991-2000, he explored, developed and patented fast charging methods for NiCd, NiMH and Li-ion batteries for use in handheld radios, power tools and mobile phones. In Nokia, 2000-2004, he worked in the technology scouting dept. and investigated new energy sources, battery behavior and performance in mobile phones applications. From late 2004 till now in 2017, he works in GN Hearing with energy management topics, focused on low power challenges with primary zinc air cells and rechargeable Li-ion batteries.
Jonas Sottmann is in the final phase of his PhD degree in Electrochemistry and operando synchrotron studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He received a MSc in Physics from Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France and a BSc in Physics from Georg-August- University of Göttingen, Germany. In 2012 he started on his PhD project with the title “Synchrotron Based Operando Methods for Characterization of Non-Aqueous Electrode Materials”. He studied the structure property relations of various lithium- and sodium-ion battery electrode materials.
For that purpose he designed an X-ray transparent cell for combined X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy measurements coupled with electrochemical characterization on the Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines at the European Synchrotron, France.