Sodium-Ion Battery Engineering: Designing Affordable Energy Storage Systems Beyond Lithium

By Eldric Halden

Practical engineering guidance for building sodium-ion batteries

This book serves as a focused technical guide for engineers, researchers, and product teams working on sodium-ion energy storage. It connects chemistry, cell design, manufacturing, testing, safety, and system integration into one coherent framework, with an emphasis on real-world implementation rather than theory alone.

Covering the full development path from requirements definition to pack-level validation, it explains how to translate application needs into cell specifications, compare sodium-ion and lithium-ion constraints, and establish meaningful test standards for capacity, power, and safety. The material is structured to support decision-making at every stage of development, from material selection to production readiness.

What the book coversElectrochemistry fundamentals for sodium transport, interfacial behavior, kinetics, diffusion, and efficiency loss mechanisms.Cathode and anode engineering, including layered oxides, Prussian blue analogues, hard carbon, alloying options, and balancing strategies.Electrolyte formulation with salt, solvent, additive, and contamination control considerations.Cell architecture topics such as coin, pouch, and cylindrical formats, separator choice, current collectors, and sealing.Manufacturing process design for coating, drying, calendaring, formation cycling, and quality assurance.Modeling and characterization using EIS, GITT, incremental capacity analysis, and equivalent circuit methods.Thermal and safety engineering for heat generation, abuse testing, protection design, and failure traceability.Degradation and failure analysis with post mortem workflows and root cause identification.System integration guidance for modules, packs, BMS requirements, wiring protection, testing, and cost tradeoffs.Why this book is useful

Unlike a basic chemistry overview, this volume focuses on engineering choices that affect performance, reliability, manufacturability, and affordability. It is especially valuable for teams designing storage systems for grid support, off-grid applications, and cost-sensitive deployments where sodium-ion can provide a practical alternative to lithium-based solutions.

The final chapters tie concepts together through worked engineering examples, test plans, and review-ready data package structures, making the book useful both as a learning resource and as a reference during product development and qualification.

Ideal for: battery engineers, materials scientists, manufacturing teams, validation engineers, and system integrators seeking a grounded, application-oriented treatment of sodium-ion battery technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H11L3SYN
• ISBN13: 9798196044229
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"