المملكة: Heat -resistant batteries … Saudi innovation to change the future of energy

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology “Kaost” has strengthened its strategic partnership with Saudi Aramco, one of the largest energy and integrated chemical companies in the world, to develop a new generation of resistant batteries for severe temperatures.
The developed battery is specifically designed to work in hot ground environments inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to frozen continental environments.
The design of this battery is a revolutionary research step aimed at redefining the capabilities of rechargeable batteries in the most difficult climatic and operational conditions.

This partnership seeks to overcome the great technical challenges facing the energy sector, especially with regard to providing effective and sustainable energy storage solutions in environments whose temperatures range from below zero to 130 degrees Celsius.
“Together, we are on our way to exceed the most prominent technical challenges facing the energy sector,” said Dr. Mohamed Arslan, head of the advanced sensing team and robots at the Aramco Exploration and Petroleum Engineering.
For his part, Professor Hossam Al -Sharif, head of the Renewable Energy Excellence Center and storage techniques, explained (Crest) In Kaost and the main researcher in the “Hot Categories Batteries” project, the project is a vivid example of applied research that focuses on addressing the most complex industrial and environmental challenges.
He said: “The main challenge lies in identifying the electrodes and breaks that can withstand high temperatures without chemically deteriorating, which requires innovative engineering and new materials“.
The importance of the project is that it deals with a problem as long as the exploration and production sector in the oil and gas fields faces, as ground tools require batteries that bear temperatures that may reach 200 degrees Celsius, which is not provided by traditional batteries that begin to deteriorate at 60 degrees Celsius.
From this standpoint, the Kaost research team in cooperation with Aramco is working on designing new batteries capable of performance with high efficiency in a wide thermal range, while maintaining safety and reducing operational costs.

Dr. Dong Qouh, the main author of the published research, explained that these new batteries are especially promising in applications that require high energy density and heat stability, stressing that the developed commercial batteries have continued to work at a temperature of 130 degrees Celsius for a period.
In the same context, Dr. Ghaithan Al -Mantasheri, Director of the Aramco Research Center at the Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center indicated (Expect Arc)The fact that “this research partnership represents a qualitative shift in energy storage techniques, and opens new horizons in sustaining the thermal performance of batteries in the various industrial sectors“.
Dr. Arslan added that the world lacks rechargeable batteries that bear high temperatures, and that the current project is developing batteries solutions that use electrolysis materials and new engineering designs that reduce dependence on primary batteries with a single use, which leads to reducing the cost and reducing the carbon footprint.
Professor Al -Sharif expected that the size of the battery market globally reached 400 billion US dollars by 2030, stressing that “Kaost aims to provide innovative batteries with long lifestyles commensurate with harsh environments,” stressing that batteries engineering in a way that reduces the need for cooling and increases safety is one of the future project goals.
At the end of the statements, Dr. Abdel Wahab Al -Ghamdi, head of the Aramco Research Center in Kaost, explained that “this partnership represents a strategic step in launching the full potential of batteries in the Kingdom and the world, and will pave the way for wide applications that are compatible with the targets of sustainability and Saudi vision 2030“.