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Fire risks associated with li-ion batteries & safety

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Fire risks associated with li-ion batteries & safety. The demand for lithium-ion battery-powered road vehicles continues to increase around the world day by day. As the technological advances in energy storage systems, specifically those that are part of the lithium-ion family. Fire risks with li-ion batteries.

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NEC introduces Li-ion household energy storage and control system

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NEC Corporation is introducing in Japan a 6 kWh Li-ion battery household energy storage system that automatically controls electrical power in the home. Initially, 100 units of the system will be available for home construction companies and businesses beginning 18 July 2011.

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NSF funds U of Kansas researcher developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries

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Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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Details of the Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro Li-ion battery pack

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In a presentation at the 2011 Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Pasadena, California last week, Daniel Andree, a battery development engineer at Audi AG, outlined the implementation of a Sanyo lithium-ion battery pack in the upcoming 2012 Audi Q5 compact crossover hybrid. Earlier post.). ” —Daniel Andree.

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UConn team devises chemistry-adaptive battery fuel gauge based on probabilistic data association

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Their paper, available online in the Journal of Power Sources , addresses the problem of tracking the state-of-charge (SOC) in Li-ion batteries when the battery chemistry is unknown. In the event of the need to gauge an unknown battery, the PDA algorithm selects the most similar OCV model to the battery from the library.

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SEPTA, Constellation, and Viridity Energy to deploy 8.75MW energy storage system to capture and reuse subway train braking energy

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The network is designed to use stored energy to power trains as they accelerate from stations and can provide emergency generation for trains in the event of a power outage. Saft will provide the lithium-ion battery technology. An expansion of SEPTA’s 1.8

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Sandia researchers confirm mechanism by which Li ions move in and out of LFP electrodes

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Using X-ray and electron microscopy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 , or LFP). The research is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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