Gas production rate in-situ measurement method in thermal runaway process of lithium ion battery
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of lithium ion batteries, and relates to an in-situ measurement method for gas production rate in a thermal runaway process of a lithium ion battery.
Background
At present, the lithium iron phosphate square battery is widely applied to important fields such as electric vehicles, electric vehicles and energy storage power stations, and meanwhile, the requirements of application scenes on the scale and the working rate of the lithium ion battery are increasingly improved. However, large-scale lithium ion batteries generate a large amount of heat in a high-rate operating state, which causes a rapid increase in battery temperature. Because the capacity of the lithium ion battery is easy to be attenuated at high temperature and the risk of thermal runaway exists, and because the thermal runaway gas generation of the lithium ion battery is flammable and explosive, the thermal management problem and the thermal runaway problem of the large-scale lithium ion battery under high charge and discharge multiplying power gradually become hot spots for research. Therefore, in order to reduce or even eliminate the thermal runaway hazard of the lithium ion battery, a thermal runaway suppression system and a thermal runaway protection system matched with the thermal runaway suppression system must be designed. The design of both is premised on the need to solve for the rate and amount of gas production by the target cell during operation or thermal runaway. Therefore, calculating the gas production rate of the battery is a key problem of a thermal runaway suppression system or a thermal runaway protection system of the lithium ion battery.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an in-situ measurement method for gas production rate of a lithium ion battery in a thermal runaway process, which can obtain the gas production rate of the lithium ion battery in the thermal runaway process by measuring the pressure change of the gas production of the lithium ion battery and the mass change of balance measurement through a pitot tube.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme: an in-situ measurement method for gas production rate in a thermal runaway process of a lithium ion battery is characterized by comprising the following steps:
fixing a battery to be tested, a heating plate and heat insulation cotton by using a clamp, fixing a flow guide channel above a battery safety valve by using an iron wire, and stably placing the flow guide channel on a balance;
step two, the pitot tube is stretched into the flow guide channel and is 3-5mm away from the safety valve, the heating plate is opened, and a gas pressure change curve and a mass change curve of the tested battery during gas production are recorded;
thirdly, carrying out stress analysis on a battery testing system comprising the battery to be tested, the heating plate, the flow guide channel and the clamp and a balance, establishing a balance equation and a differential equation of transient mass change, and solving the nearest relation among the mass change of the battery in unit time, the gas pressure change in unit time and the mass change curve in unit time;
and step four, establishing a relational expression between the fluid pressure and the fluid flow rate according to a pitot tube principle, and bringing the relational expression into a differential equation to obtain the relation between the gas flow rate and the instantaneous pressure, the pressure change rate and the mass change rate.
Further, the flow guide channel in the step one is an iron mechanical device with the length of 36.5mm, the width of 28mm and the height of 30mm, an elliptical hole with the same size as the battery safety valve is hollowed in the center of the flow guide channel, so that conical air flow sprayed out by the battery safety valve is achieved, the air flow cross section area and the battery safety valve are the same in a pitot tube test area, and the test flow rate and the outlet flow rate are the same.
Further, the pressure change curve in the second step is obtained from the change of the pressure of the fluid area measured by the pitot tube with time.
Further, the change curve of the mass in the second step is a change curve of the mass measured by the balance over time, and the mass measured by the balance comprises the mass of the battery and the gas reaction force.
Further, the lithium ion battery is a square lithium iron phosphate battery.
Further, the step three of analyzing the stress of the battery test system and the balance specifically includes: the equilibrium equation is as follows:
MDisplayg=PA+MActualg
wherein g, A and P are respectively local gravity acceleration, safety valve cross section area, pitot tube instantaneous pressure and MDisplayAnd MActualRespectively displaying the mass and the actual mass of the battery for the balance;
differential equation of transient mass change:
wherein ρ, v, and a are density, velocity, and flux of gas generated at the moment of thermal runaway of the battery under test, respectively.
Further, the fourth step specifically comprises: according to the pitot tube principle, a relationship between fluid pressure and fluid flow rate is established as follows:
wherein epsilon is a pitot tube coefficient, rho and v are the density and the speed of gas generated at the moment of thermal runaway of the battery respectively, and P is the instantaneous pressure of the pitot tube;
eliminating gas density, and obtaining a gas production flow rate expression as follows:
has the advantages that:
according to the invention, the gas production rate of the lithium ion battery in the thermal runaway process is obtained by measuring the pressure change of the gas produced by the lithium ion battery through the pitot tube and measuring the mass change through the balance, and the gas production rate of the battery is a key problem of a thermal runaway suppression system or a thermal runaway protection system of the lithium ion battery, so that the combustion and deflagration risks of thermal runaway gas production can be effectively estimated. Through the calculation of the gas production rate, the design of a battery box body and a thermal runaway early warning system can be effectively guided, so that the thermal runaway hazard of the lithium ion battery is reduced.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a gas production measuring device of a lithium ion battery according to the present invention. In the figure, 1-a pitot tube, 2-a balance, 3-a lithium ion battery, 4-a heating plate, 5-a flow guide channel, 6-a clamp and 7-heat insulation cotton.
Fig. 2 is a diagram of an actual apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a graph showing the change in mass of the balance measured in the first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a graph showing the rate of change of mass of the balance measured in the first example of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a graph showing the pressure change measured in the first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a graph illustrating a variation of gas production rate of a lithium ion battery according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
In order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following specific embodiments.
Example one
The present invention will be described in detail with reference to a square lithium iron phosphate battery, which is heated at 500W. The method is established by four steps:
firstly, fixing a lithium ion battery 3 to be tested, a heating plate 4 and heat insulation cotton 7 by using a clamp 6, fixing the flow guide channel 5 above a battery safety valve by using an iron wire by using a flow guide channel 5 matched with the size of the lithium iron phosphate battery safety valve, screwing a nut, stably placing the balance 2 and zeroing the balance;
and step two, the pitot tube 1 is stretched into the flow guide channel 5, is 3-5mm away from the safety valve, is connected with external monitoring software, and returns the air pressure data to 0. Opening the heating plate 4, and recording a gas pressure change curve and a mass change curve during the thermal runaway of the battery;
thirdly, carrying out stress analysis on a battery testing system comprising the battery to be tested, the heating plate, the flow guide channel and the clamp and a balance, and establishing a balance equation and a differential equation of transient mass change so as to solve the relationship among mass change of the battery in unit time, gas pressure change in unit time and a mass change curve in unit time;
and step four, establishing a relational expression between the fluid pressure and the fluid flow rate according to a pitot tube principle, and bringing the relational expression into a differential equation to obtain the relation between the flow rate and the instantaneous pressure, the pressure change rate and the mass change rate.
Further, the flow guide channel in the step one is an iron mechanical device with the length of 36.5mm, the width of 28mm and the height of 30mm, an elliptical hole with the same size as the battery safety valve is hollowed in the center of the flow guide channel, so that conical air flow sprayed out by the battery safety valve is achieved, the air flow cross section area and the battery safety valve are the same in a pitot tube test area, and the test flow rate and the outlet flow rate are the same.
Further, the pressure change curve in the second step is obtained from the change of the pressure of the fluid area measured by the pitot tube with time.
Further, the change curve of the mass in the second step is a change curve of the mass measured by the balance over time, and the mass measured by the balance comprises the mass of the battery and the gas reaction force.
Further, the step three of analyzing the stress of the battery test system and the balance specifically includes: the equilibrium equation is as follows:
MDisplayg=PA+MActualg
wherein g, A and P are respectively local gravity acceleration, safety valve cross section area, pitot tube instantaneous pressure and MDisplayAnd MActualRespectively displaying mass and battery for balanceActual mass;
differential equation of transient mass change:
wherein ρ, v, and a are density, velocity, and flux of gas generated at the moment of thermal runaway of the battery under test, respectively.
Further, the fourth step specifically comprises: according to the pitot tube principle, a relationship between fluid pressure and fluid flow rate is established as follows:
wherein epsilon is a pitot tube coefficient, rho and v are the density and the speed of gas generated at the moment of thermal runaway of the battery respectively, and P is the instantaneous pressure of the pitot tube;
eliminating gas density, and obtaining a gas production flow rate expression as follows:
it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the invention, and that any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.