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Table of Contents
Battery Manufacturing
Fundamentals of battery manufacturing, including specifics of electrode manufacturing, cell assembly and joining cells to modules and packs. Health and safety and operational principles of working in clean and dry rooms. Sustainability of battery manufacturing and design. Formation, ageing and testing of assembled cells. Quality assurance including End-of-Line testing of cells, modules and packs. Operational principles of Battery Management Systems.
This area contains the following Common Sets of Skills (CSS):
12

Health and Safety for Battery Manufacture
16

Formation, Ageing and Testing of Cells
5

Battery Module and Pack Assembly
15

Clean and Dry Rooms in Battery Manufacturing
2

Fundamentals of Battery Supply Chain Systems
14

Cell Assembly
6

Electrode Manufacturing
8

Designing Sustainable Batteries
1

Battery Fundamentals
7

Battery Management Systems (BMS)
Power Electronics
Processing, controlling, and converting of electric power from one form to another using semiconductor devices operating at high voltages and currents
This area contains the following Common Sets of Skills (CSS):
19

Power Conversion Techniques
18

Switching Techniques and Circuits
17

Introduction to Power Semiconductor Devices
27

Reliability and Fault Diagnosis in Power Electronic Systems
26

EMI/EMC in Power Electronics
25

Advanced Power Electronic Converters
24

High-Frequency Power Electronics
23

Power Quality and Harmonics
22

Control Methods for Power Electronics
21

Thermal Management in Power Electronics
20

Magnetics in Power Electronics
4

Introduction to Power Electronics
3

Reliability and Fault Diagnosis in Power Electronic Systems
Battery Recycling
Battery end of life assessment and analysis of the state of health, decommissioning and sustainable disposal, vehicle battery identification, safe manual and automated disassembly, sorting and segregation of materials, operation of recycling equipment, hydro and pyro-metallurgical recovery of battery materials, health and safety regulations of battery recycling.
This area contains the following Common Sets of Skills (CSS):
9

End of Life and Environmental Decommissioning of Batteries
11

Sustainable Reutilisation of Batteries
28

Introduction to Battery Recycling (Li-ion, Na-ion, Solid-State)
30

Sorting and Segregation of Recyclable Materials from Battery Packs
31

Hydro- and Pyrometallurgical Recovery of Battery Materials
29
