Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (10): 3742-3754.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2025.0301

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Warning method for battery-overcharge thermal runaway based on a temporal pattern attention mechanism and an isolated forest algorithm

Changhao LI1(), Zhicheng CAO2, Shuping WANG1, Heng XIE3, Weixin ZHANG2(), Yuancheng CAO2   

  1. 1.Electric Power Science Research Institute of State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co. , Ltd. , Key Laboratory of Fire Safety and Emergency Technology for New Power Systems in Anhui Province (Fire Protection Laboratory for Transmission and Transformation Facilities of State Grid Corporation of China), Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
    2.State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co. , Ltd. , Hefei 230601, Anhui, China
    3.School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
  • Received:2025-03-26 Revised:2025-05-11 Online:2025-10-28 Published:2025-10-20
  • Contact: Weixin ZHANG E-mail:346550617@qq.com;weixinzhang@hust.edu.cn

Abstract:

Lithium-ion battery (LIB) thermal runaway proceeds rapidly and violently representing a significant challenging in the field of energy-storage safety, as it can initiate thermal propagation within energy storage systems and lead to losses. To meet the timeliness requirements for early warning of overcharge-induced thermal runaway in LIBs, an early warning method integrating the temporal pattern attention (TPA) mechanism, bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) network, and isolation forest algorithm is proposed. In this method, the changing patterns of battery-state characteristics across multiple time steps are first captured using TPA, which applies differentiated weighting to focus on the mostvaluable information. Subsequently, the bidirectional neural network structure of BiLSTM is used to extract bidirectional information from battery-characteristic data, thus enhancing the prediction accuracy of the model. Finally, by integrating the isolation forest algorithm, the real battery dataset is used to establish an isolation forest model, which calculates the anomaly scores of battery-state characteristics. Thereafter, the battery states are classified by selecting the optimal anomaly score threshold, enabling early warning of abnormal battery conditions. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method achieves an F1 score of 0.9509 and can provide early warning of abnormal battery conditions 7 s before overcharge-induced thermal runaway; this time is 252 s earlier than that of the temperature threshold method. Overall, the method demonstrated here offers insights into enhancing the accuracy and timeliness of early warning for overcharge-induced thermal runaway in LIBs.

Key words: lithium-ion battery, thermal runaway, warning methods, mechanism, isolation forest

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