Form Energy, Inc.

Rupak Chakraborty

William Henry Woodford

Liang Su

Jarrod David Milshtein

Rachel Elizabeth Mumma

Yet-Ming Chiang

Mitchell Westwood

Isabella Caruso

Ian Salmon McKay

Eric F Weber

Mateo Cristian Jaramillo

Jocelyn M Newhouse

Amelie Nina Kharey

Benjamin Thomas Hultman

Marco Ferrara

Kristen Carlisle

Theodore Alan Wiley

Danielle Cassidy Smith

Max Rae Chu

Nicholas Reed Perkins

Florian Wehner

Alexander H Slocum, Jr

Jay Whitacre

Andrew Haynes Liotta

Michael Andrew Gibson

Annelise Christine Thompson

Joseph Anthony Pantano

Marc-Antoni Goulet

Tristan Gilbert

Weston Smith

Eric D Weber

Katherine Hartman

Rebecca Eisenach

Konstantin S Solnushkin

John Challis

Scott Mackenzie

Jason Capili

Seth Feder

Peter Vliet

Anna Schneider

Henry Tareque

Adam Giusti

Anushka Makhija

Frank Wong

Fikile Brushett

Matthew Edward Via

Helen Van Benschoten

Brian Beggan

Alexandra Rousseau

Bradley Mileson

Onur Talu

Vladimir Tarasov

Thomas Conry

Brooke Wojeski

Brandon Uber

Natalie Mako

Anthony Tran

Detailed herein are systems and methods for large volume design, building, and testing, particularly suited for rechargeable batteries intended for long duration energy storage. A specific item, such as a battery cell, may be designed through input and selection of various components and configurations, along with desired test protocols and configurations. A build team is notified of the new item, and confirms material and resources are ready to build the item. A specific channel is reserved or committed for the test. Test data, along with specifics and any errors or conditions encountered from specification through teardown, is tracked.

System and method for large volume design, build, and test

Various embodiments provide a battery, a bulk energy storage system including the battery, and/or a method of operating the bulk energy storage system including the battery. In various embodiment, the battery may include a first electrode, an electrolyte, and a second electrode, wherein one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises direct reduced iron ('DRI'). In various embodiments, the DRI may be in the form of pellets. In various embodiments, the pellets may comprise at least about 60 wt % iron by elemental mass, based on the total mass of the pellets. In various embodiments, one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises from about 60% to about 90% iron and from about 1% to about 40% of a component comprising one or more of the materials selected from the group of SiO, AlO, MgO, CaO, and TiO.

Negative electrodes for electrochemical cells

Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide device architectures for batteries. In various embodiments, these may be primary or secondary batteries. In various embodiments these devices may be useful for energy storage. Various embodiments may provide a battery including an Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) electrode, an Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) electrode, a metal electrode; and an electrolyte separating the ORR electrode and the OER electrode from the metal electrode.

Device architectures for metal-air batteries

Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide metal electrodes for electrochemical cells. In various embodiments, the electrodes may comprise iron. Various methods may enable achieving high surface area with low cost for production of metal electrodes, such as iron electrodes.

Low cost metal electrodes

Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide a battery including a rolling diaphragm configured to move to accommodate an internal volume change of one or more components of the battery. Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide a battery housing including a rolling diaphragm seal disposed between an interior volume of the battery and an electrode assembly within the battery. Various embodiments may provide an air electrode assembly including an air electrode supported on a buoyant platform such that the air electrode is above a surface of a volume of electrolyte when the buoyant platform is floating in the electrolyte.

Stack of electric batteries including series of fluidly connected unit cells

Various embodiments relate to several processes that may recover commodity chemicals from an alkaline metal-air battery. In various embodiments, while the cell is operating, various side products and waste streams may be collected and processed to regain use or additional value. Various embodiments also include processes to be performed after the cell has been disassembled, and each of its electrodes have been separated such as not to be an electrical hazard. The alkaline metal battery recycling processes described herein may provide multiple forms of commodity iron, high purity transition metal ores, fluoropolymer dispersions, various carbons, commodity chemicals, and catalyst dispersions.

Battery recycling

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Rupak Chakraborty