• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.622-629
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• 2020

The performance and cost of electric vehicles (EVs) are much influenced by the performance and service life of the Li-ion battery system. In particular, the cell performance and reliability of Li-ion battery packs are highly dependent on their operating temperature. Therefore, a novel battery thermal management is crucial for Li-ion batteries owing to heat dissipation effects on their performance. Among various types of battery thermal management systems (BTMS'), the phase change material (PCM) based BTMS is considered to be a promising cooling system in terms of guaranteeing the performance and reliability of Li-ion batteries. This work is mainly concerned with the basic research on PCM based BTMS. In this paper, a basic experimental study on PCM based battery cooling system was performed. The main purpose of the present study is to present a comparison of two PCM-based cooling systems (n-Eicosane and n-Docosane) of the unit 18650 battery module. To this end, the simplified PCM-based Li-ion battery module with two 18650 batteries was designed and fabricated. The thermal behavior (such as temperature rise of the battery pack) with various discharge rates (c-rate) was mainly investigated and compared for two types of battery systems employing PCM-based cooling. It is considered that the results obtained from this study provide good fundamental data on screening the appropriate PCMs for future research on PCM based BTMS for EV applications.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2020

The Li-ion battery is considered to be one of the potential power sources for electric vehicles. In fact, the efficiency, reliability, and cycle life of Li-ion batteries are highly influenced by their thermal conditions. Therefore, a novel thermal management system is highly required to simultaneously achieve high performance and long life of the battery pack. Basically, thermal modeling is a key issue for the novel thermal management of Li-ion battery systems. In this paper, as a basic study for battery thermal modeling, temperature distributions inside the simple Li-ion battery pack (comprises of nine 18650 Li-ion batteries) under a 1C discharging condition were investigated using measurement and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation approaches. The heat flux boundary conditions of battery cells for the CFD thermal analysis of battery pack were provided by the measurement of single battery cell temperature. The temperature distribution inside the battery pack were compared at six monitoring locations. Results show that the accurate estimation of heat flux at the surface of single cylindrical battery is paramount to the prediction of temperature distributions inside the Li-ion battery under various discharging conditions (C-rates). It is considered that the research approach for the estimation of temperature distribution used in this study can be used as a basic tool to understand the thermal behavior of Li-ion battery pack for the construction of effective battery thermal management systems.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.407-418
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• 2017

Battery heat management is essential for high power and high energy battery system because it affects its performance, longevity, and safety. In this paper, we investigated the temperature of the 18650 Lithium Ion Battery Module used in a Energy Storage System (ESS) and the cooling method to minimize cell-to-cell temperature variation of battery module. For uniform temperature distribution within a battery module, the flow direction of the coolant in a battery module has been changed according to the time interval, and studied the effect of the cooling method on the temperature uniformity in a battery module which includes a number of battery cells. The experimental results show that bi-directional battery cooling method can effectively reduce the cell-to-cell temperature variation compared with the one-directional battery cooling. Furthermore, it is also found that bi-directional battery cooling can reduce the maximum temperature in a battery module.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.212-218
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• 2018

Li-ion battery system is regarded as one of the most potent power sources for electrified power-trains. For the Li-ion battery system to be widely adopted in automotive applications, the performance, safety, and cycle life issues need to be properly addressed. These issues are closely related to the thermal management of battery system. Especially, the effective cooling module design is the core part for the novel battery thermal management system development. In this paper, an experimental approach was carried out as a basic part of comprehensive battery thermal management research. The main goal of this paper is to present a comparison of two cooling systems (air cooling and phase change material (PCM) based cooling) of the unit 18650 battery module. The temperature rise with different battery discharge rate (c-rate) was mainly investigated and analyzed for two types of battery cooling systems. It is expected that this study can properly contribute to providing basic insights into the design of robust battery thermal management system for vehicular applications.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.167-175
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• 2021

Reusing electric vehicle batteries after they have been retired from mobile applications is considered a feasible solution to reduce the demand for new material and electric vehicle costs. However, the evaluation of the value and the performance of second-life batteries remain a problem that should be solved for the successful application of such batteries. The present work aims to estimate the remaining useful life of Li-ion batteries through the neuro-fuzzy system with the equivalent circuit parameters obtained by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). To obtain the impedance spectra of the Li-ion battery over the life, a 18650 cylindrical cell has been aged by 1035 charge/discharge cycles. Moreover, the capacity and the parameters of the equivalent circuit of a Li-ion battery have been recorded. Then, the data are used to establish a neuro-fuzzy system to estimate the remaining useful life of the battery. The experimental results show that the developed algorithm can estimate the remaining capacity of the battery with an RMSE error of 0.841%.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 18650 원통형 NCA 리튬이온 배터리로 구성된 고출력 직렬 배터리로 다양한 C-rate의 전기적 특성을 테스트한다. 테스트를 통해 추출한 14S1P 배터리 팩의 방전 용량 데이터와 4S1P 배터리 팩의 EV cycle 데이터를 통해 C-rate의 변화에 따른 전기적 특성을 분석한다. 분석을 통해 얻은 데이터를 기반으로 C-rate에 따른 방전용량 실험의 셀 간 전압 편차와 EV cycle 실험의 셀 간 전압 편차를 다중선형회귀 모델로 추정하여 선형적인 특징을 가진 데이터와 비선형적인 특징을 가진 데이터에 대한 각각의 추정성능을 검증한다. 모델의 추정성능을 검증하기 위해 추정 데이터와 실제 데이터의 RMSE를 구해 알고리즘의 정확성을 평가한다. 논문의 결과는 14S1P 배터리 팩의 방전 용량의 셀 간 전압 불균형과 4S1P 배터리 팩의 EV cycle의 셀 간 전압 불균형 중 선형적인 데이터인 방전 용량의 셀 간 불균형 데이터의 추정 성능이 더 뛰어난 것을 검증하는데 기여한다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.667-674
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• 2019

최근 발생한 원전 사고는 소외전원 및 비상전원의 기능이 상실되어 발전소 전체 정전이 발생한 사례를 계기로 원전의 비상전원공급용 배터리의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 현재 원전의 비상전원공급용 배터리는 기존의 납축전지를 대신하여 리튬계열 배터리로 교체가 고려되고 있는 상황이다. 이에 따라 원통형 리튬 배터리의 적용성을 판단하기 위해 여러 가지 리튬 계열 배터리의 전기적 특성 실험을 진행하여 결과를 분석해야 한다. 본 논문은 현재 ESS(Energy Storage Systems)에 많이 사용되는 세 가지 타입의 리튬 배터리의 전기적 특성실험을 통해 적절한 배터리 타입을 선정하고, 선정된 배터리가 비상전원공급용 배터리로 사용될 때 최적의 C-rate를 제안한다. 또 배터리 모델링을 통해 배터리의 상태를 추정하며 문제점을 제시한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.36-38
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• 2018

As the battery capacity requirement increases, battery cells are connected in a parallel configuration. However, the sharing current of each battery cell becomes unequal due to the imbalance between cell's impedance which results the mismatched states of charge (SOC). The conventional fixed-resistance balancing methods have a limitation in battery equalization performance and system efficiency. This paper proposes a battery equalization method based on dynamic resistance technique, which can improve equalization performance and reduce the loss dissipation. Based on the SOC rate of parallel connected battery cells, the switches in the equalization circuit are controlled to change the equivalent series impedance of the parallel branch, which regulates the current flow to maximize SOC utilization. To verify the method, operations of 4 parallel-connected 18650 Li-ion battery cells with 3.7V-2.6Ah individually are simulated on Matlab/Simulink. The results show that the SOCs are balanced within 1% difference with less power dissipation over the conventional method.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2012

리튬이온전지의 대형화와 범용화에 따라 경제성과 안정성 관점에서 정극재료의 개발은 중요한 과제로 대두되고 있다. 18650 원통형 전지의 에너지 밀도는 발매 초기인 1991년 230Wh/l에서 2005년 2배 이상의 500Wh/l로 증가하였으며, 제품 대부분의 에너지용량은 450~500 Wh/l, 150~190Wh/kg이고 안전성, 제조비 절감 및 장 수명을 중점적으로 개발하고 있다. $LiCoO_2$ 정극활물질 중의 Co가 고가이므로 Co 사용량을 줄이면서 에너지 용량을 향상시키기 위하여 $LiMn_2O_4$, $LiCo_{1/3}N_{i1/3}Mn_{1/3}O_2$, $LiNi_{0.8}Co_{0.15}Al_{0.05}O_2$, $LiFePO_4$-C복합체 (167 mA/g)등이 개발되고 있다. 전동자전거용 전지는 출력밀도 500 Wh/kg, 전동공구용 1,500Wh/kg, EV나 PHEV용으로는 4,000~5,000Wh/kg의 대용량 출력밀도를 요구하고 있으므로 배터리 소재의 성능을 향상시키려고 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 최근 Graphene-sulfur 복합체정극활물질 600 Ah/kg, 2차전지용 분자클러스터(molecular cluster) 320 Ah/kg 등의 새로운 정극활물질이 연구 개발되고 있으므로 실용화가 기대된다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.458-459
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• 2018

배터리팩에 사용되는 리튬이온 배터리는 제조공정 과정에 따라 각각의 배터리 마다 부피에 의한 물리적 특성, 내부 저항, 자가 방전률, 셀 용량, 배터리 노화 속도 등 여러 가지 특성이 다르다. 배터리 팩의 효율적 운용을 위해 이러한 단위 셀 간편차를 최소화 하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 두 종류의 고용량 리튬이온 배터리를 선정하여 진동 충격 실험 전 후 개방 회로 전압(open circuit voltage, OCV)를 측정하고 Matlab을 사용하여 비교 분석 하였다. OCV 비교 분석 데이터를 이용하여 통계적 분석 기반 셀 스크리닝을 진행하였고 이에 대한 결과를 비교 분석하였다.