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Title: Li-ion battery thermal runaway suppression system using microchannel coolers and refrigerant injections

Abstract

A battery management system with thermally integrated fire suppression includes a multiplicity of individual battery cells in a housing; a multiplicity of cooling passages in the housing within or between the multiplicity of individual battery cells; a multiplicity of sensors operably connected to the individual battery cells, the sensors adapted to detect a thermal runaway event related to one or more of the multiplicity of individual battery cells; and a management system adapted to inject coolant into at least one of the multiplicity of cooling passages upon the detection of the thermal runaway event by the any one of the multiplicity of sensors, so that the thermal runaway event is rapidly quenched.

Inventors:
;
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1331156
Patent Number(s):
9490507
Application Number:
13/900,417
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G08 - SIGNALLING G08C - TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2013 May 22
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Bandhauer, Todd M., and Farmer, Joseph C.. Li-ion battery thermal runaway suppression system using microchannel coolers and refrigerant injections. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Bandhauer, Todd M., & Farmer, Joseph C.. Li-ion battery thermal runaway suppression system using microchannel coolers and refrigerant injections. United States.
Bandhauer, Todd M., and Farmer, Joseph C.. Tue . "Li-ion battery thermal runaway suppression system using microchannel coolers and refrigerant injections". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1331156.
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year = {2016},
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