Dry room

Example

Use in Lemonergy

Place operations and quality checks in process order.

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Dew point

The temperature at which the water vapour in air would start to condense, the standard way of specifying dry-room humidity. A −40 °C dew point corresponds to about 0.5 % relative humidity at room temperature.

Electrolyte filling

Injecting a measured volume of electrolyte into the sealed-but-for-one-opening cell, usually under vacuum followed by pressure so the liquid is pulled into the pores. The cell then rests for wetting before formation.

Lithium salt

The dissolved salt that supplies the mobile lithium ions in a liquid electrolyte, almost always lithium hexafluorophosphate, LiPF₆, at about one mole per litre. It reacts with traces of water to form hydrofluoric acid, which is why cells are filled in a dry room.

Vacuum drying

Baking electrode rolls or finished stacks under vacuum at 80–120 °C for many hours to drive off the last traces of water before they enter the dry room. Residual moisture would otherwise react with the electrolyte salt.

References & further reading

Technical references

1. Current and future lithium-ion battery manufacturing

   Yangtao Liu, Ruihan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yan Wang · iScience · 2021

   Technical reference · Electrode preparation, cell assembly, formation and manufacturing trade-offs.