SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- SELF EXTINGUISHING ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVE FOR LITHIUM ION CELLS
- Notice Date
- 1/10/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 335911
— Storage Battery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ14ZBH014L
- Response Due
- 4/11/2014
- Archive Date
- 1/10/2015
- Point of Contact
- Mark A. Dillard, Lead Partnership Development Office Integration, Phone 281-244-8460, Fax 281-483-4146, Email mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov - Dana Altmon-Cary, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-8228, Fax 281-483-4066, Email dana.altmon-cary-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Mark A. Dillard
(mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) is seeking parties interested in collaborative development and mature technologies required for NASAs future missions and to enhance life on Earth. JSC is looking to partner on the development of broadly applicable technologies as a means to accelerate technology development and strengthen commercialization of federally-funded research and development. Purpose: NASA JSC seeks to advance technology associated with electrolyte additive solutions to prevent thermal runaway of Lithium Ion cells. Existing Lithium Ion Cell and Battery designs operate with controls provided by a Battery Management Unit (BMU) electronics board in order to prevent external cell short circuit and thermal runaway due to overcharge.These electronics occupy space and consume power from the battery pack.Thermal runaway would generate high cell temperature and cause fire that could potentially propagate to other cells within a battery pack. The ability to prevent thermal runaway by having a self- extinguishing electrolyte is highly desirable since it will eliminate the use of external electronic controls for cell short circuit and thermal runaway due to overcharge.In addition, the self-extinguishing electrolyte additive will prevent thermal runaway due to internal cell short and external heating, which cannot be prevented by BMU electronics. Technology: State of the Art Technology is limited to safe and reliable operations at a temperature range of -20 to 60 C for discharge, and a temperature range of 0 to +45 C for charge. The highest energy densities for current Lithium Ion technology are 675 Wh/L (volumetric) and 245 Wh/Kg (gravimetric). This self-extinguishing electrolyte additive is required to operate without impacting cell performance. (Irreversible capacity loss after 200 charge/discharge cycles must equal to irreversible loss of cell without self- extinguishing electrolyte additive). Self-extinguishing electrolyte additives are estimated at a Technology Readiness Level of TRL-4. R&D Status: NASA JSC is equipped with destructive physical analysis facilities that include spectrometers, glove box, gas chromatographs, infra-red spectrometers, high-performance liquid chromatographs, and vent hoods.NASA JSC possesses state-of-the-art cell cycling and abuse testing capabilities that provide valuable data on the cell performance containing the electrolyte extinguishing additive solution. Intellectual Property (IP): This Partner relationship may produce new IP that could be jointly owned by NASA and the partner or may become the property of the partner. This announcement is not to be construed as a Request for Proposal and is not a commitment by the government, nor will the government pay for any information provided. Since this is an Announcement, no evaluation letters or results will be issued to the respondents. Please submit the attached Statement of Interest Form to Mark Dillard To view all Co-Development and Partnering Opportunities with the NASA Johnson Space Center please visit our website http://1.usa.gov/1bL99AF
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