NoVOC

The project NoVOC addresses environmentally sustainable processing techniques applied to large scale electrode and cell component manufacturing for Li ion batteries. The activities of NoVOC are addressed toward the following challenging topics:

1. Lower carbon footprint cell manufacturing in Europe.

2. New sustainable electrode and cell manufacturing techniques with low energy consumption, and no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions.

3. Electrode coating production techniques to eliminate organic solvents reduce the capital costs associated to the solvent recovery system.

4. Dry manufacturing techniques with next generation materials.

5. Industrializing closed loops and process design to return low-value chemicals from manufacturing processes to high-value products.

In NoVOC two competitive electrode manufacturing technologies, aqueous and dry, for automotive batteries intended for production in Europe, will be designed and demonstrated. The innovations proposed in NoVOC center on improvements of the cell manufacturing process by integrating two novel electrode processes and will demonstrate the manufacturability of automotive cells in two formats (pouch and cylindrical) with no toxic organic solvent at the fraction of the cell manufacturing cost that is currently available today.