Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2021, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (6): 2260-2268.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2021.0196

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Thermal characteristics of lithium-ion battery with sinusoidal charge and discharge pulsating current

Zeng'ang JIA(), Zhibin LING, Xuguang LI()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Control of Power Transmission and Conversion, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2021-05-06 Revised:2021-05-18 Online:2021-11-05 Published:2021-11-03

Abstract:

The actual charging and discharging current of the battery in the cascaded H-bridge energy storage system and MMC energy storage system is the superposition of sinusoidal alternating current (AC) and constant direct current (DC), forming a sinusoidal pulsating current. The fluctuation of battery charging and discharging current has a great influence on the thermal characteristics of the battery, which determines the thermal management measures and battery service life. Based on this condition, the thermal characteristics of a LiFePO4 battery under sinusoidal pulsating charge and discharge current were investigated in this study using a one-dimensional electrochemical model and compared to those under constant DC. The results show that the transient thermal power and internal resistance of the battery fluctuate periodically with the current; When the fluctuation amplitude of the sinusoidal AC component is 25% that of the DC component, the discharge and charge processes cause only 5% and 2.8% extra heating, respectively, when compared to the pure DC charge and discharge. However, as the fluctuation amplitude of the sinusoidal AC component increases further, the battery heating increases sharply; from the middle to both ends of SOC, the phase difference between voltage drop and current increases, indicating an increase in the capacitive effect; as the frequency of current pulsation increases, the heating of the battery decreases.

Key words: battery energy storage, lithium ion battery, thermal characteristics, sinusoidal pulsating current

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