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Quantifying cell-to-cell variations of a parallel battery module for different pack configurations

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Hosseinzadeh, Elham, Arias, Sebastian, Krishna, Muthu, Worwood, Daniel, Barai, Anup, Widanage, Widanalage Dhammika and Marco, James (2021) Quantifying cell-to-cell variations of a parallel battery module for different pack configurations. Applied Energy, 282 (Part A). 115859. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115859

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Cell-to-cell variations can originate from manufacturing inconsistency or poor design of the battery pack/thermal management system. The potential impact of such variations may limit the energy capacity of the pack, which for electric vehicle applications leads to reduced range, increased degradation along with state of health dispersion within a pack. The latter is known to reduce the accessible energy and the overcharging/discharging of some of the cells within a system, which may cause safety concerns. This study investigates the short-term impact of such effects, which is highly important for designing of an energy storage system. A generic pack model comprising individual cell models is developed in Simscape and validated for a 1s-15p module architecture. The results highlight that a number of cells and interconnection resistance values between the cells are the dominant factors for cell-to-cell variation. A Z shape module architecture show a significant advantage over a ladder configuration due to the reduced impact of interconnection resistance on differential current flow within the module. Current imbalance is significantly higher for a ladder system and its magnitude is not dependent on the module current. Capacity variation does not have a significant impact on the system. By increasing the capacity variation from 9% to 40% the current inhomogeneity increases from 4% to 13%, whilst 25% resistance variation leads to 22% current dispersion. Further, a linear relationship is observed between the current inhomogeneity and thermal gradient (

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Journal or Publication Title: Applied Energy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
ISSN: 0306-2619
Official Date: 15 January 2021
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15 January 2021Published
12 November 2020Available
1 September 2020Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 24 September 2020
Volume: 282
Number: Part A
Article Number: 115859
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115859
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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