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Blocking analysis of thermal runaway of a lithium-ion battery under local high temperature based on the material stability and heat dissipation coefficient

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In order to achieve a safer battery and battery design, it is necessary to fully understand thermal runaway. In this paper, the thermal abuse model of the NCM lithium-ion battery is established. Through simulation analysis, the thermal runaway characteristics of lithium-ion batteries under different heat dissipation conditions and different thermal stability materials were obtained, including the values of initial temperature and maximum temperature and time. The results show that improving the heat dissipation condition outside the battery can improve the heat transfer coefficient of the battery surface, reduce the rising speed of the battery temperature, and delay the time and heat of the heat generation side reaction. When the local temperature is 200 °C, the coefficient of heat transfer is greater than 1 W/(m2 K), and in the positive reaction with electrolyte initial temperature of 210 °C, the battery will not undergo the heat out of control.

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This work was supported by the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control (20180103), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51875259), the National Key Research and Development Program (2018YFC0810504), and the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX19_1169).

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    Xudong Sun & Lijin Zhao

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Xiaoming Xu

  3. TianJin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock CO., LTD., Tianjin, 300384, China

    Huifen Jin, Lingdi Cao & Hongmei Wang

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Sun, X., Xu, X., Zhao, L. et al. Blocking analysis of thermal runaway of a lithium-ion battery under local high temperature based on the material stability and heat dissipation coefficient. Ionics 27, 107–122 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-020-03800-5

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