NDLI: Nondestructive forensic pathology of Lead-Acid batteries

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ying Shi Ferone, C. Rao, C. Rahn, C.D.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Valve Regulated Lead-Acid (VRLA) batteries can degrade due to a variety of mechanisms, including corrosion, hard sulfation, water loss, shedding, and active mass degradation. VRLA batteries are designed to minimize these effects as much as possible but the operating environment, cell-to-cell and battery-to-battery manufacturing variations, and use can cause different degradation mechanisms to dominate capacity loss and/or impedance rise. With accurate State of Health monitoring, cell usage can be adjusted by the battery management system (BMS) to optimize the performance and life of the energy storage system. The BMS must be able to determine in real-time the predominant degradation mechanism for each cell and adjust use accordingly. In this paper, new and dead VRLA batteries are tested with constant, sinusoidal, and pulse charge/discharge current inputs while measuring the cell voltage and pressure to determine the cause of death of the cells. As expected, the new cells have fairly uniform performance with limited signs of degradation. The cells in the dead battery, however, have widely ranging performance, especially at the end of discharge and charge. Analysis of the charge/discharge data indicate that two cells died of water loss and a third cell died of sulfation. The remaining three cells were fairly healthy but will accompany their dead companions to the recycling center nonetheless. While the full charge/discharge data provided useful forensic pathology data, EIS and pulse charge/discharge data varied with aging mechanism but the correlation was unclear.
Sponsorship	IEEE Control Syst. Soc.
Starting Page	1350
Ending Page	1355
File Size	1583751
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457710957
ISSN	07431619
e-ISBN	9781457710964
e-ISBN	9781467321020
DOI	10.1109/ACC.2012.6315172
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-27
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	American Automatic Control Council(AACC)
Subject Keyword	Batteries Discharges (electric) Aging Lead Degradation Impedance Battery charge measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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