{"id":719,"date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/heat-flux-sensors\/719\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T11:43:31","slug":"heat-flux-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/heat-flux-sensors\/719\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat flux sensors to advance thermal management of lithium-ion cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carlos Ziebert, head of the Calorimeter Center at the Institute of Applied Materials – Applied Materials Physics, outlines how heat flux sensors can help in advancing thermal management of cells.<\/h2>\n

Established in 2011, the Calorimeter Center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\u2019s (KIT) Institute for Applied Materials – Applied Materials Physics<\/a> now operates Europe\u2019s largest battery calorimeter<\/a> laboratory. It provides six Accelerating Rate Calorimeters (ARCs) of different sizes, from coin to large pouch or prismatic automotive format, which allows the evaluation of thermodynamic, thermal and safety data for lithium-ion (Li-ion) and post-lithium batteries on material, cell and pack level for both normal and abuse conditions (thermal, electrical, mechanical). However not all types of measurements need such a sophisticated calorimeter. Small heat flux sensors (HFS) are already able to collect data that are needed to advance the thermal management.<\/p>\n

Possible measurements with heat flux sensors<\/h3>\n

With increasing energy density, the thermal management of Li-ion batteries is becoming more and more important, because an uncontrollable increase in temperature of the entire system (so-called thermal runaway) can cause an ignition or even explosion of the battery with simultaneous release of toxic gases. In order to adapt the thermal management system to the individual needs of the cells, quantitative data of the cell thermal parameters are needed. You need to know how many watts a cell will generate and dissipate under certain conditions. It will be shown how heat flux sensors can be used to provide:<\/p>\n