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Probing heterogeneity in Li-ion batteries with coupled multiscale models of electrochemistry and thermal transport using tomographic domains

Tranter, TG; Timms, R; Heenan, T; Marquis, S; Sulzer, V; Jnawali, A; Kok, MDR; ... Brett, D; + view all (2020) Probing heterogeneity in Li-ion batteries with coupled multiscale models of electrochemistry and thermal transport using tomographic domains. Journal of The Electrochemical Society , 167 (11) 10.1149/1945-7111/aba44b. Green open access

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Abstract

This work presents a methodology for coupling two open-source modelling frameworks in a highly parallel fashion across multiple length scales to solve an electrical current and heat transport problem for commercial cylindrical lithium-ion batteries. The global current and heat transfer problems are formulated as resistor networks and solved using a finite difference method on a network extracted from an X-ray tomogram of an MJ1 18650 battery. The electrochemistry governing the heat generation is solved at the local level using a physically parameterized model. Electrochemical models are solved for different regions of a spirally wound cylindrical cell in parallel, coupled via charge conservation at the current collectors in a "battery of batteries" fashion, similar to the concept of modelling a pack. Thermal connections between layers in the spiral winding are established and heat transport is solved globally in a two-dimensional fashion, allowing for the subsequent extension to three dimensions. Great heterogeneity in local current density is predicted by the model which is also found to have some temperature dependence with ramifications for battery degradation.

Type: Article
Title: Probing heterogeneity in Li-ion batteries with coupled multiscale models of electrochemistry and thermal transport using tomographic domains
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/aba44b
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/aba44b
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10106065
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