Design and management of lithium-ion batteries: A perspective from modeling, simulation, and optimization*

Abstract

Although the lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been increasingly applied in consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and smart grid, they still face great challenges from the continuously improving requirements of energy density, power density, service life, and safety. To solve these issues, various studies have been conducted surrounding the battery design and management methods in recent decades. In the hope of providing some inspirations to the research in this field, the state of the art of design and management methods for LIBs are reviewed here from the perspective of process systems engineering. First, different types of battery models are summarized extensively, including electrical model and multi-physics coupled model, and the parameter identification methods are introduced correspondingly. Next, the model based battery design methods are reviewed briefly on three different scales, namely, electrode scale, cell scale, and pack scale. Then, the battery model based battery management methods, especially the state estimation methods with different model types are thoroughly compared. The key science and technology challenges for the development of battery systems engineering are clarified finally.

Facile Synthesis of Heterostructured MoS2–MoO3 Nanosheets with Active Electrocatalytic Sites for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

“…The growing demand for mobile devices and electric vehicles has significantly promoted the development of advanced rechargeable batteries in recent years . Until now, lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have become one of the most promising candidates for energy storage devices due to their high theoretical capacity (1672 mAh g –1 ) and the low cost of sulfur. , However, there are still several significant technological challenges including the low sulfur utilization, “shuttle effect” of soluble polysulfides, and the irreversible, large volume expansion of cathode structure during cycling, which hinders the commercialization of Li–S batteries. , …”

Metal–Organic Framework-Derived NiSe2 Nanoparticles on Graphene for Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

“…Because traditional energy sources are gradually being replaced by renewable energy, the demand for advanced energy-storage technologies is increasing, and secondary batteries have received widespread attention as a means of energy storage. 1 Lithium−sulfur (Li−S) batteries are advantageous over other secondary batteries because of their high theoretical energy density (2600 Wh kg −1 ) and abundant reserves and environmental friendliness of S. 2,3 On the basis of the above advantages, Li−S batteries have attracted much attention for next-generation energy-storage devices. Nevertheless, the practical application of Li−S batteries is still restricted because of some intractable challenges.…”

Effect of coating operating parameters on electrode physical characteristics and final electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries

“…Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are currently the main technology underpinning the development of electric vehicles (EVs) due to their higher power density, higher gravimetric and volumetric energy and longer service life compared with other secondary batteries [1,2]. Still, the market share of EVs is just a fraction of the whole market still dominated by internal combustion vehicles [3].…”