The QUT Energy Storage Research Group strives to support, enable and grow battery industries within Australia through expansion upon strong foundations to become a national leading, globally recognised centre for excellence in battery research, technology, standards and safety. At the Advanced Battery Facility located at QUT’s Banyo Pilot Precinct, ESRG delivers major capability building projects in energy storage in collaboration with industry, research institutions and government. ESRG provides fundamental research, testing and qualification services in battery materials and systems across the entire battery value chain with a focus on enabling research translation for commercial application of energy storage technologies. ESRG capabilities include:
The Advanced Battery Facility (ABF)
The ABF is a pilot-scale facility for standard format LIB cell manufacturing at QUT. It is the only facility capable of manufacturing commercial-grade cylindrical-format LIB cells in Australia. The Facility provides battery grade materials validation in standard, commercially representative cell formats, enabling the transition of early-stage research and development to industrial pilot-scale and large volume manufacturing. The ABF also enables performance validation and benchmarking of LIB materials and componentry as well as prototyping for a diverse range of LIB cell formats and configurations to enable industry partners to enter local and international supply chains.
The Queensland Energy Storage Technology Hub (QUEST hub)
Targeted at growing and fortifying Queensland’s battery value and supply chain, QUEST Hub will enable local manufacturing of key high TRL energy storage technologies needed to meet our clean energy targets by leveraging and value-adding to Queensland minerals. QUEST Hub will focus on a diverse range of energy storage technologies from lithium-ion batteries through to flow batteries, further building upon QUT’s battery research and testing capabilities to support a greater number of industry partners in the energy storage sector.