Gore Performance Solutions — Battery Insulation

One of the biggest concerns about battery installations is safety. Specifically safety from thermal runaway. In battery modules, there are really two jobs which need to be done. First, thermal barrier you need to protect against thermal runaway propagation, but also you do need to have some sort of compliant material so that you can take up the compressive stresses that the batteries are put under.

When a lot of gas is generated in the cell. That applies a lot of compressive stress on the installation of material between the cells. So in this critical moment when you need the installation to be really robust and providing that protection against thermal propagation, a compressible thermal barrier will be compromised.

Gore battery insulation is an incompressible thermal barrier, which means it's going to retain its thermal properties even under compression, and it can be then paired with a compliant layer and alternate cells so that you're taking care of both jobs. The thermal barrier job and the compliant pad job, and you're doing both of them better. Gore battery insulation is a much easier to handle material than traditional battery installations, is delivered in a form that is cut.

It's bendable and it's non shedding and nonparticipating, so it can be bonded using adhesives. It can be layered with other materials and it's very easy to handle. And in this growing field this is something that we're very excited about. We've been talking to a lot of customers and we understand the problem to be solved, and that is to improve the safety of grid scale.

Battery energy storage and Gore. Battery insulation will be very well positioned to help our customers improve the safety of their battery storage installations.