Tracking degradation in lithium iron phosphate batteries using differential thermal voltammetry
Author(s)
Shibagaki, T
Merla, Y
Offer, GJ
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Diagnosing the state-of-health of lithium ion batteries in-operando is becoming increasingly important for multiple applications. We report the application of differential thermal voltammetry (DTV) to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells for the first time, and demonstrate that the technique is capable of diagnosing degradation in a similar way to incremental capacity analysis (ICA). DTV has the advantage of not requiring current and works for multiple cells in parallel, and is less sensitive to temperature introducing errors. Cells were aged by holding at 100% SOC or cycling at 1C charge, 6D discharge, both at an elevated temperature of 45 °C under forced air convection. Cells were periodically characterised, measuring capacity fade, resistance increase (power fade), and DTV fingerprints. The DTV results for both cells correlated well with both capacity and power, suggesting they could be used to diagnose SOH in-operando for both charge and discharge. The DTV peak-to-peak capacity correlated well with total capacity fade for the cycled cell, suggesting that it should be possible to estimate SOC and SOH from DTV for incomplete cycles within the voltage hysteresis region of an LFP cell.
Date Issued
2017-11-28
Date Acceptance
2017-11-04
Citation
Journal of Power Sources, 2017, 374, pp.188-195
ISSN
0378-7753
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
188
End Page
195
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Power Sources
Volume
374
Copyright Statement
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
09 Engineering
03 Chemical Sciences
Energy
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-11-28