Agenda

Conference Hall

Feeling the strain – gauging the impact of tighter feed on refined lead production

Neil Hawkes
Lead Market Analyst, CRU

Conference Hall

Future lead–acid battery demand ― a tasty prospect, or is someone eating our lunch?

Farid Ahmed
Principal Analyst Lead Markets, Wood Mackenzie Ltd

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The Best Two Energy Storage Investments

Ray Kubis
Chairman, Gridtential Energy

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A review of the lead–acid battery industry in China

Dong Li
Chairman, Board of Directors, Leoch Battery Pte. Ltd.

Conference Hall

Residential battery storage in Australia ― ups and downs in a burgeoning market

Rebecca Lewis
Integrated Energy Advisor, Evergen Pty Ltd

Glenn Platt
Director - Grids and Energy Efficiency Program, CSIRO Energy

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Accelerated laboratory tests for accurate estimation of the life-cycle performance and lifetime-costs of battery operation in energy-storage systems

Russell Newnham
CTO, Electric Applications Incorporated

Donald Karner
Chief Executive Officer, Electric Applications Inc.

David Rand
, CSIRO

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Tailor-made polyethylene separators for lead–acid to meet new market needs

Jörg Deiters
Global Technical Service, DARAMIC LLC.

Meeting Room 6

A new concept for the manufacture of very small plates

Marcello Fantoni
Sales Director, Sovema Group S.p.A.

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The Lead Battery Industry, Market & Business Opportunity in China

Zeli Wang
Executive Director, Asia Battery Association

Meeting Room 6

A broad spectrum of separator opportunities

Richard Pekala
Chief Technology Officer, ENTEK International LLC

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A sustainable economic model for environmentally sound management of used lead–acid batteries in emerging economies and those in transition

Brian Wilson
, Independent Consultant

Meeting Room 6

Latest information of IEC standards for lead–acid starter batteries

Akira Osada
General Manager, Battery Association of Japan

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Combined influence of organic expander and high surface-area carbon black on capacity, dynamic charge-acceptance, cold-cranking and partial state-of-charge life of lead–acid batteries

Tim McNally
Senior Research Associate, Borregaard LignoTech

Jeffrey Poirier
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Samuel Shafarik
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Meeting Room 6

Silicon Joule® Technology for Renewable Energy and Automotive Applications

Collin Mui
Lead Silicon Electrochemist, Gridtential Energy Inc.

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A study of carbon processing for advanced lead–acid battery applications

Aaron Feaver
Co-founder, EnerG2 Technologies

Meeting Room 6

Lead oxide — plate quality improvement and equipment innovation

Huang Chao
Project Manager, Better (Xiamen) Power Technology Co., Ltd.

Conference Hall

MOLECULAR REBAR® ―discrete carbon nanotube additives for VRLA motorcycle and e-trike/e-rickshaw applications

Jeremy Meyers
Director of Research and Development for Lead-Acid Batteries, Black Diamond Structures

Meeting Room 6

Excellence in plate-making for lead‒acid batteries

John O Wirtz
President & Chief Executive Officer, WIRTZ Manufacturing Company Inc.

Conference Hall

Heraeus Porocarb® Lead ― a synthetic carbon additive to improve lead–acid battery life and performance

Dominik Samuelis
Head of Innovation, Heraeus Battery Technology

Meeting Room 6

Effects of electrochemically active carbons added to the negative plates of lead–acid batteries

Kuo-Jung Huang
Engineer, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

Conference Hall

Hi-SepTM flooded and gel battery separator, demonstrates performance improvements for deep cycle applications

Mahadevaswamy Kodimole Mahadevappa
Scientist, Hollingsworth and Vose

Natesh Gubbi Krishnappa
Director, Technology, India, Hollingsworth & Vose

Meeting Room 6

Advanced expanders for lead‒acid batteries

Gordon Beckley
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Hammond Group Inc.

Conference Hall

Status of lead–acid batteries as energy storage for smart grids

Norbert Maleschitz
VP R&D EMEA, Exide Europe

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IEC 61427-2. A standard for evaluating batteries for grid-connected energy storage duties

Herbert Giess
Consultant, Private Consultant

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Carbon additive solutions for next-generation lead–acid batteries

Paolina Atanassova
Global AD Manager, Cabot Corporation

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The ‘lead–carbon’ battery ― a promising solution for large-scale energy storage

Jiayuan Xiang
Director of Basic Research Department, Narada Power Source Co.

Conference Hall

Strategy for improving the positive grid in lead–acid batteries

Rosalie Louey
Senior Research Metallurgist, PMB Defence

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A new generation of paste additive for enhanced flooded batteries

Shounan Hua
Chief Consultant, Shandong Jinkeli Power Sources Technology Co., Ltd.

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A novel negative electrode that solves the most challenging technical issue facing automotive lead–acid batteries ― high dynamic charge-acceptance DCA and low water consumption

Stuart McKenzie
Chief Executive Officer, ArcActive

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Experience and Technical Insight Gained by Applying UltraBattery® Technology to Energy Storage Applications

John Wood
Chief Executive Officer, Ecoult Energy Storage Solutions

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Advanced positive additives for lead–acid batteries

Marvin Ho
Vice President, Research & Development, Hammond Group, Inc.

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Theoretical and experimental studies of lead sulfate films formed in porous electrodes

Patricio Impinnisi
Senior Researcher, Institute of Technology for Development - LACTEC

Juliano Andrade
Researcher, Institute of Technology for Development - LACTEC

Priscilla Mengarda
PhD Student, Federal University of Parana

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Online battery monitoring for any battery chemistry and application

KD Merz
VP Technology, Abertax Technologies

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Regulatory update on Europe

Rene Schroeder
Executive Director , EUROBAT

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Saving of active material without losing battery performance

Ian Klein
Technical Head of Battery Additives, PENOX GmbH

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New automatic methods of paste control for modern lead–acid battery manufacturing

Stephen Mate
Chief Executive Officer, Co-efficient

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Enhancing advanced lead–acid batteries for start–stop and energy storage applications

Boris Monahov
Program Manager, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium

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New positive grid technology for application of the 2nd Generation UltraBatteryTM in advanced 14-V hybrid vehicles

Masashi Matsushita
Researcher, The Furukawa Battery

Jun Furukawa
Senior Fellow, The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd.

Conference Hall

Effects of treatment with low energy modulated magnetic fields (LEITs) on chemical and electrochemical processes in the lead–acid battery

Boris Shirov
Project Manager - Research & Development, TASC Ltd.

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Development of novel carbon black for advanced lead–acid batteries

Wei Wei
Head of Energy Systems - Innovation, Orion Engineered Carbons GmbH

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An Industry Outlook of the AGM Separator in Various Lead-Acid Battery Applications

Xiaoying DU
General Manager, Shandong Shenxian Hua Yang Industrial Co., Ltd

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The Residential Photovoltaic Energy Storage System (PV ESS) project

Peter Ng
Director, Narada Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

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Influence of carbon nanotubes, glycine, boron carbon nitride and molybdenum disulfide as negative-plate additives on the performance of lead–acid batteries

Sundar Mayavan
Senior Scientist, CSIR- Central Electrochemical Research Institute

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Environmental and financial benefits of operating a lead-recovery furnace in-house

Brendt Halliday
Business Manager, Pyrotek Australia

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Design possibilities when using LifeMat (TM) pasting mat in the production of lead–acid batteries

Mark Boghe
Industrial Segment Leader, Owens Corning

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Battery data analytics for Main Storage Batteries of submarines

Larry Scuteri
Senior Engineer, PMB Defence

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Microcell Carbon Foam Batteries for Grid-scale Renewable Energy Storage Systems

Mukesh Bhandari
Chairman, Firefly International Energy Co.

Balaji Balasundaram
Manager - Design & Development, Firefly Batteries

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Best practice for future lead–acid products. Part 3: ‘soft’ lead and leady oxides

Douglas Lambert
Vice President – Battery Technology, WIRTZ Manufacturing Company