Canadian battery materials manufacturer Nano One Materials has installed and commissioned an agitator in the commercial-sized, 20,000-liter One-Pot reactor at its production facility in Candiac, Québec.

The new equipment installation has been engineered to enhance mixing dynamics, thermal transfer and reaction time and is estimated to increase throughput capacity at the facility by approximately 50%. The increased capacity will result in reduced production costs, the company said, in addition to supporting production scale-up and continued product commercialization, as well as optimizing plant design for the company’s future licensing business. It will also improve the consistency and quality of CAM output.

The proprietary agitator equipment was sourced from a German manufacturer specializing in mixing technologies. The upgrade followed extensive piloting, data collection and modeling conducted on smaller 2,000-liter One-Pot pilot reactors, which were commissioned in October 2023.

The project is supported by funding and expense reimbursements from the NRC IRAP Clean Technology Program (formerly SDTC), Investissement Québec, Technoclimat and the US Department of Defense (DoD). 

“The commissioning of the new equipment marks a milestone in the further optimization of the Candiac operations, which has been established as a One-Pot LFP demonstration production plant,” said Denis Geoffroy, Chief Commercialization Officer of Nano One. “The upgrade was achieved through the combined efforts of our engineering and production teams. This achievement underscores the scalability of the One-Pot process.”

Nano One also announced five new patents in North America and Asia, bringing its total to 52 granted, one allowed and 54 pending in jurisdictions around the world.

The recent patents include three patents related to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cathodes, in the US, Canada and Taiwan, a patent related to nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cathode materials in South Korea, and a US patent for the assembly of lithium nickel manganese oxide (LNMO) cathode material. 

Source: Nano One Materials