Cambridge EnerTech’s
Battery Managment Systems
Engineering Reliability and Robustness
March 27-28, 2019
Creating safe battery cells and designing robust battery management systems are vital to successful battery integration. Creating versatile and well-designed battery management systems is one of the top hurdles battery engineers face. Hear from top
scientists as they provide insight on how to extend the life of their battery packs and use battery management systems to maintain storage capacity and maintain safety. High-level battery pack engineers, and battery scientists from OEMS, national
labs, and top academic institutions will discuss designing internal battery pack structure, new SOC and SOH monitoring methods, and simplifying circuitry to develop reliable and robust batteries.
Final Agenda
Wednesday, March 27
PALM BALLROOM
1:45 Plenary Keynote Session: Organizer's Remarks
1:50 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award
2:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: What Innovations/Advancements Do OEMs Need to Enable Near-Term, Large-Scale Production?
Moderator:
Celina Mikolajczak, Director of Engineering, Energy Storage Systems, Uber
Panelists:
Mohamed Alamgir, PhD, Research Director, LG Chem
Timothy Arthur, PhD, Principal Scientist, Materials Research Department, Toyota Research Institute of North America
Micheal Austin, Vice President, BYD US Operations (BYD America-IT, BYD Motors, BYD Energy)
Craig Rigby, Vice President Technology, Power Solutions, Johnson Controls
Bob Taenaka, Technical Specialist, Battery System Development, Ford Motor Company
What do OEMs need for near term, large-scale innovation? Can the global battery R&D community deliver on what advancements OEMs need for large-scale production? Our distinguished panel will discuss what they need to innovate and what they anticipate
their future requirements will be. In addition, our panelists will discuss what innovation can be achieved to meet the OEMs requirements.
2:55 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
3:40 Organizer’s Opening Remarks
Victoria Mosolgo, Conference Producer, Cambridge EnerTech
3:45 Chairperson’s Remarks
Anil Paryani, CEO, CTO, Automotive Power, Inc.
3:50 NEW Lithium-Ion
Battery Safety Behavior upon Mechanical Abusive Loading
Xiang Gao, Researcher, NC Automotive and Motorsports Research Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
4:20 Li-Ion Balancing Simplified
Anil Paryani, CEO, CTO, Automotive Power, Inc.
There are many types of balancing hardware and software architectures for lithium battery packs. Passive bleed and active balancing circuits are considered. For controls, different balancing strategies are employed to minimize BMS hardware and system
costs.
4:50 Strain-Enabled Multi-Physical Models of Li-Ion Battery Cells for Control and State Estimation
Bogdan Epureanu, PhD, Professor, Chair of Electrochemical Energy Storage, Institute of Future Transport and Cities, Coventry University
This presentation focuses on recent results of creating multiphysical models that enable the use of strain to enhance control and state estimation of battery cells. This model can capture electrical, thermal, and mechanical behaviors of battery cells.
5:20 Dinner Tutorial Registration*
5:45 – 7:45 Dinner Tutorial*
7:45 Close of Day
Thursday, March 28
7:30 am Registration Open
7:45 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups with Continental Breakfast
GRAND PREFUNCTION
The breakouts are informal, moderated discussions with brainstorming and interactive problem solving, allowing participants from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas and experiences and develop future collaborations around a focused topic.
Each topic is led by a moderator who ensures focused conversation around the key issues of that topic. Attendees choose to join a specific group. View list of topics here.
8:45 Session Break
9:00 Chairperson’s Remarks
Brian Barnett, President, Battery Perspectives
9:05 Advances in Methods to Generate Reduced-Order Physics-Based Li-Ion Cell Models for BMS Controls
Gregory Plett, PhD, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Equivalent-circuit models cannot predict internal cell dynamics and hence cannot be used by next-generation controls to predict the onset of degradation behaviors and therefore mitigate aging. Physics-based models must be used. And, these
models must be computationally simplified for practical application. Methods are needed to convert high-complexity physics-based models into reduced-order models. This presentation will show advances in methods to create reduced-order
physics-based models. This is an important enabler of using physics-based models in BMS.
9:35 A Multi-Cell Battery-Management Approach to Ease Performance Restrictions Imposed by Weakest Cell
Scott Trimboli, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
This presentation describes a novel multi-cell control approach (implemented in the context of an active-balancing architecture) that monitors individual cell behavior and acts to reduce the limiting effect of the weakest cell on overall
pack performance.
10:05 Battery Performance and the Internet of Things
Wilson Lee, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Marketing, Tektronix, Inc.
The Internet of Things affects all aspects of our lives in one way or another. Battery performance – specifically battery life cycle – is a key enabler in this paradigm. Designers are needing to precisely and reliably measure,
simulate and model battery life cycles in the presence of very small current requirements. Attendees will come away better being able to meet the challenges on selecting and qualifying low power components, and reliably measuring power
consumption.
10:35 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
11:20 Improved Cell Behavior Understanding for Better Parametrized Control Models
Yatish Patel, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of London
Presented is a novel adiabatic experimental procedure which investigates cell heat generation, independent of other parameters such as state of charge and internal cell concentration gradients. This facilitates an assessment of the impact
of temperature on the cell’s performance.
11:50 Power Electronic-Based Active Battery Energy Management Solutions for E-Transportation and Autonomous E-Mobility
Sheldon Williamson, PhD, Professor, University of Ontario
Fundamental topologies of power electronic converters, specifically utilized for bidirectional current flow in cell balancing applications, will be discussed. The design, implementation, and testing/validation of an active cell equalization
circuit for a traction Li-ion battery pack will also be presented.
12:20 pm Effective Battery Control Instead of Monitoring and Balancing the Death of the Battery
Hans Harjung, CEO, e-moove GmbH
Monitoring and balancing has been state-of-the-art in battery management (BMS) for decades. In fact, this means monitoring the death of the battery. Effective battery control (ebc) is controlling all cells according to their individual
state-of-health (SoH) and aging parameters. This leads to a maximum lifetime and performance of the battery pack combined with highest safety.
12:50 Walking Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing or Plated Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall Foyer
1:50 Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
2:20 Chairperson’s Remarks
Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens, PhD, Head of Department, Accumulators Materials Research, ZSW
2:25 TIM Materials for Battery Systems
Sarah Querelle-Halverson, Research and
Development Manager, Product Development, Henkel Corporation
Continued advancement in battery technology has resulted in higher power and energy densities. Comprehensive thermal management at the cell, pack, and module level is needed for reliable, long-term operation. Thermal interface
materials (TIMs), comprising a polymer matrix and thermally conductive fillers, are an integral part of the battery system design. Besides thermal transport, TIMs need to have tailored properties that address manufacturing automation,
mechanical robustness, and high reliability through accelerated aging. This presentation provides an overview of, and challenges associated with, the development of new TIMs.
2:55 Instrumented Commercial Lithium Batteries
Rohit Bhagat, PhD, Chair of Electrochemical Energy Storage, Institute of Future Transport and Cities, Coventry University
This presentation focuses on utilisation of embedded reference electrodes, fibre optics and sensors within commercial 18650 lithium-ion cells. These instrumented cells are then used to conduct in operando investigations of lithium battery safety by giving real-time information on the internal state of the battery.
3:25 Lithium Plating: A Critical Side Reaction in Lithium-Ion Cells
Thomas Waldmann, PhD, Accumulators Materials Research, ZSW
This presentation will detail the following: How lithium plating affects lifetime and safety, how to predict lithium plating, how to avoid lithium plating, how to select charging protocols to avoid lithium plating.
3:55 Special Considerations in Battery Management for Industrial Application
Yevgen Barsukov, PhD, Head of Algorithm Development, Battery Management Systems, Texas Instruments, Inc.
4:25 Networking Refreshment Break
PALM BALLROOM
4:40 Closing Plenary Keynote Session: Organizer's Remarks
4:40 - 5:40pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Solving the Innovation Barrier for Production of Improved Li-Ion
Moderator:
Brian Barnett, President, Battery Perspectives
Panelists:
Michael Fetcenko, Director, Global Licensing, BASF Battery Materials, BASF
Tobias Glossman, Senior Engineer, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America
Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell
Donald R. Sadoway, PhD, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Schiffbanker, Product Manager Battery Systems, AVL
Demands for improved lithium-ion are increasing even while markets are expanding dramatically amidst relentless cost reduction pressures. New materials, components and technologies are required, and an unprecedented level of R&D is
responding. Battery manufacturers and their suppliers face enormous engineering and investment challenges ramping up production. One consequence is a major innovation barrier: long multi-year qualification periods and technologies
“frozen” for manufacturing. This culture requires screening of new technologies in complete cells. Most innovators do not make cells or know how to demonstrate realistic cell-level performance. This panel of experts will
examine these challenges and consider approaches to unblock innovation.
5:45 Close of Conference