Model prediction-based battery-powered heating method for series-connected lithium-ion battery pack working at extremely cold temperatures

Deyang Huang, Ziqiang Chen and Shiyao Zhou

Energy, 2021, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: The degraded performance of lithium-ion batteries at low temperatures is a key obstacle to the development of battery energy storage system applied in extremely cold environment. Therefore, this paper proposes a heating method based on model prediction to support the low-temperature operation of battery pack without additional power sources. Battery pack model is developed based on Thevenin equivalent circuit model. A co-estimator is established to update model parameters and state-of-charge online using adaptive recursive least squares and extended Kalman filter. The permissible discharging current of pack is predicted based on multiple constraints to prevent over-discharge. Then, the battery-powered heating structure, control circuit, and heating strategy are designed. The strategy contains a preheating process for cold-start and a holding process for stabilizing cell temperature. The method is verified experimentally through systematic battery-in-the-loop tests at the environmental temperature of – 40 °C. Results show that the method can uniformly preheat all in-pack cells from − 40 °C to − 20 °C in 330 s consuming 4.7% of nominal capacity. In holding process, it is energy-efficient to raise cell temperature continuously and then maintain at 5 °C, which makes 68.3% of nominal capacity available when loading a modified federal urban driving schedule.

Keywords: Lithium-ion battery pack; Extremely cold temperature; Battery-powered heating; Model prediction; Battery thermal management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119236

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