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Battery pack modeling & simulation key to success
To help develop more effective battery management systems for plug-in hybrid vehicles, an Ohio State University researcher programmed a supercomputer to simulate the characteristics and behavior of individual lithium-ion batteries as they are arranged in an automotive battery pack.
Benjamin “BJ” Yurkovich, a graduate research fellow at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) at The Ohio State University, recently collaborated with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to better understand the characteristics and behavior of large battery packs.
[Source & read more: Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)]
Boost for electric vehicle battery chemistry
Nexeon – the developer of silicon-based anodes for next generation lithium ion batteries – is part of a UK consortium awarded almost £1 million in funding by the Technology Strategy Board – TSB. The aim of the project is to develop new battery chemistry that will deliver high energy densities, and to produce a prototype for the plug-in electric vehicles (PHEV) application.
Working with Nexeon are advanced battery manufacturer Axeon, the University of St Andrews, a centre of excellence for battery materials chemistry and Ricardo, a leading provider of technology and engineering solutions to the automotive and transport industries. The consortium partners will match the TSB funding in the £2 million project.
Over the next two years, applied research conducted at St Andrews on potential new cathode materials will be combined with appropriate chemical engineering by Nexeon to scale-up material synthesis and optimize electrode fabrication, resulting in prototype Li-ion cells based on its proprietary silicon anode technology. The cells produced will be used by Axeon to construct a usable, PHEV-type battery, with cells engineered into a housing with electrical interconnects and harnessing. Ricardo will perform extensive testing of the battery module integrated into a demonstrator vehicle platform.
The project will therefore accelerate knowledge transfer from university-based fundamental research to optimized synthesis and scale up for cell production for use in a demonstrator PHEV battery pack.
[Source & Read More: Nexeon]
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