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People
Daramic R&D Centers feature chemists, material scientists, & process engineers working towards the goal of improving existing products and delivering new solutions that meet customer needs.
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Daramic R&D Centers
Our team of skilled industry experts, combined with state-of-the-art product development, material analysis, pilot manufacturing & testing facilities, can serve as an extended resource for our customer technical team.
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Owensboro, Kentucky USA
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Gujarat, India
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Selestat, France
Advanced Battery Testing
On all types of parkways, paths, and aisles, vehicles and the lead acid batteries they carry are moving. A key to understanding how the battery functions – including its failure modes – is to mimic real world scenarios during testing.
Daramic, in partnership with Huff Technologies®, has developed a proprietary testing method along with innovative new machinery. The Daramic® Shuttle Table™ creates a battery testing paradigm shift that simulates how batteries operate in the real world.
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Daramic® Shuttle Table™ by Huff Technologies®
Battery Testing
Every Daramic R&D Center contains a fully functional battery testing laboratory, which allows better partnership with our customers in product development and product improvement.
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Charge – Discharge Cycling Units
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High-Rate Discharge Units
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Temperature Controlled Baths
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Capabilities to Hand Manufacture Batteries
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Battery Teardowns for Failure Analysis
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Proprietary Motion & Rocker Table Testing
Computer Modeling Capabilities
By simulating the start-stop motion resulting from vehicle acceleration and braking, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling capabilities has enabled Daramic to design separators that promote electrolyte mixing within the battery
Electrolyte Mixing Model - Optimized Mixing Rib Design
Electrolyte Mixing Model - Solid Rib Design
Analytical Capabilities
Daramic has complete analytical equipment to test material for a wide variety of physical, chemical and electrochemical properties of microporous materials including:
- Inductively-coupled plasma spectroscopy
- Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Mercury porosimetry
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Electrochemical lab
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