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The Future of Advanced Lead Batteries and the New ALABC Program Boris Monahov and Andy Bush, ALABC, United States

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The Role of Storage in Decarbonizing Global Energy Systems Luis Munuera, International Energy Agency, France

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Global Market Trends for Industrial Lead-Acid Batteries Nick Starita, Hollingsworth and Vose, United States

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Is the ‘ZERO Environmental-Lead Emissions’ Lead-Acid Battery a Viable Possibility (Opportunity) for the Future? Doug Lambert, Wirtz Manufacturing Company Inc, United States

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Europe: Market Update and Legislative Developments Johann Friedrich Dempwolff, EUROBAT, Belgium

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Lead-Acid Batteries in a Competing Market – Stationary Batteries for Grid Services and PV-Home Storage Systems Dirk Uwe Sauer, Julia Badeda, Dirk Magnor, Tjark Thien and Kai-Philipp Kairies, ISEA - RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), an Academic Approach to the Installation of a Practical System David Stone, Daniel Gladwin and Martin Foster, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and Danielle Strickland, Aston University, United Kingdom

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High-Rate Photovoltaic–Battery Test Profiles Tim Moore, CSIRO Energy, Australia, and Nicholas Batt, Ecoult, Australia

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An Advanced Bipolar Silicon-Lead Technology for Renewable Energy Applications Collin Mui, Daniel Moomaw, Steve Hinojosa and Christian Beekhuis, Gridtential Energy Inc, United States

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Novel Lead–Graphene Positive Grids for a Motive Power Lead-Acid Battery Gui-Ping Dai, Zheng-Fu Chen and Long-Rui Zhou, Chaowei Power Ltd., China

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The Design and Performance of a Lead-Acid Smart Battery System for Micro-Energy Home Storage Andrea Brincat, Joseph Cilia and Maurice Apap, University of Malta, Malta

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Advancing the Energy Power Envelope of Lead-Acid Batteries with Bipolar Design Edward Shaffer II, Advanced Battery Concepts, USA

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Modelling Charge Acceptance for Stationary Lead-Acid Batteries Moritz Huck, Julia Badeda, Martin Biolik and Dirk Uwe Sauer, ISEA – RWTH Aachen University, Germany Kl

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Demonstrating Advanced Lead Carbon Batteries in 48V Micro/Mild Hybrid Vehicles Allan Cooper, ALABC, United Kingdom

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Standards – Status and Experiences Torsten Hildebrandt, CENELEC TC 21X, Germany and Jörn Albers, Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA, Germany

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Investigating AGM Batteries from Car Operation Jörn Albers and Ingo Koch, Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA, Germany

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A Geometrically Optimized VRLA Battery for Power and Thermal Management in HEV Applications George Brilmyer, Michael Gilchrist and Tony Coffman, HighWater Innovations, United States

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Detection for Lead-Acid Batteries Operated in Micro-Hybrid Applications Grzegorz Pilatowicz, BatterieIngenieure GmbH, Germany, Michael Jantosch, FGH Zertifizierungsgesellschaft mbH, Germany, Christel Sarfert, Eberhard Schoch, Martin Königsmann, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany and Dirk Uwe Sauer, ISEA – RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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Further Improvements of EFB With Respect to Better DCA, Higher Cycling Performance and Outstanding Cold-Cranking Power Boris Steiner, Rainer Wagner and Benjamin Hübner, MOLL Batterien, Germany

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Dynamic Charge Acceptance in High Carbon Lead-Acid Cells: Variation with Environmental Conditions and Test Parameters Matthew Smith, Daniel Gladwin and David Stone, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

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A Novel Low Cost Approach for Energy Storage in Partial Electrification of Automobile Application Subhash Dhar, Paul Gumber, Srinivasan Venkatesan, Fabio Albano, Erik Anderson and Susmitha Gopu, Energy Power Systems LLC, United States

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The Second Generation UltraBattery for Advanced 14V Hybrids Tokunori Honma and Jun Furukawa, The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd, Japan

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The Future of Automotive Batteries – Challenges and Opportunities for Lead-Acid Eckhard Karden, Ford, Germany

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Improvement of Recharge Ability and Cycle Life Performance of Enhanced Lead-Acid Batteries under Stop-Start and Partial State of Charge Duties Jesus Valenciano, Francisco Trinidad and Alba Couceiro, Exide Technologies, Spain

Development of a Flooded Type Lead-Acid Battery for Idling Stop-Start Systems Shinsuke Kobayashi, Masatoshi Tozuka, Toshio Shibahara, Motoko Harada and Tetsuro Okoshi, Hitachi Chemical Co Ltd, Japan

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Lead-Acid and Lead-Carbon Batteries with New Thin Plate Electrodes Angel Kirchev, Jérémy Lannelongue, Mikael Cugnet and Nicolas Guillet, CEA-LITEN, France

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Analysis of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Pure Carbon Additives and Lead-Carbon Electrodes in Sulfuric Acid Solution Begüm Bozkaya, Henning Lorrmann, Matthias Rumpel and Jochen Settelein, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research, Germany and Gerhard Sextl, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research and University of Wuerzburg, Germany

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Inhibitors of the Sulfation of Lead-Carbon Electrodes of Lead-Acid Batteries Operated in the High-Rate Partial-State-Of-Charge Duty Detchko Pavlov, Vesselin Naidenov, Sasho Vassilev and Yovka Milusheva, Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Toshio Shibahara and Masatoshi Tozuka, Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd., Japan

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Emerging Active Materials Based on Advanced Additives and Secondary Soft Lead Materials Matthew Raiford, David Prengaman, Timothy Ellis, RSR Technologies, United States and Maureen Murphy, Hammond Expanders, United States

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Global Lead-Acid Battery Trend and Component Advances Kevin Whear, Daramic, United States

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Study of Electrochemical Impedance Measurements to Evaluate the Influence of Stratification on Lead-Acid Battery Performance Monika Kwiecien and Dirk Uwe Sauer, ISEA – RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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Water Transmission Properties of Plastics in AGM Batteries Divya Tiwari and Frank Fleming, NorthStar Battery Company LLC, United States

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Separator Electrical Resistance: How Low Can You Go? Richard Pekala, Robert Waterhouse, Chi La, Cory Rogers, Jungseung Kim and Eric Hostetler, ENTEK International LLC, United States and Steve Gerts, Marcus Ulrich, Dennis Merritt, David Walker and Ashleigh Brown, ENTEK International Ltd, United Kingdom

Extending Battery Cycle-Life by Application of Scrim to Positive Plate Surface Brendan Naughton, Glatfelter Gernsbach GmbH, Germany and Stefan Ruevski and Detchko Pavlov, Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

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High Power UPS Battery Plate Additives Guifa Cao, Shandong Jinkeli Power Sources Technology Co., Ltd, China

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Discrete Carbon Nanotubes (MOLECULAR REBAR) for Use in Enhanced Flooded Batteries and Other Applications Paul Everill, Steven Swogger, Jeremy Meyers and Nanjan Sugumaran, Black Diamond Structures LLC, United States

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Recirculation Technology – The Inbatec Process Christian Papmahl, Inbatec GmbH, Germany

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TIMREX CyPbridTM: a Novel Carbon Materials for Advanced Lead-Acid Batteries Dario Cericola and Michael Spahr, Imerys Graphite & Carbon, Switzerland

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Curing Innovation is our Obsession Cesare Catelli, Pinco SA, Switzerland

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