Battery control method based on ageing-adaptive operation window

• US 9,859,736 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2015
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Ling, Shou-Hung, Liang, Shih-Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhanu, Samuel
• Application Number:
  US14/932,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20160134146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 320132
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/392 Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery control method based on ageing-adaptive operation window is provided, including: performing a multi-dimensional electrochemical impedance spectrum method to obtain a three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram; using an equivalent circuit model to analyze the Nyquist-vs-SoC diagram to obtain at least a major ageing factor; defining an operation window stress index, and based on the stress index defining a plurality of control reference points for the battery operation window; and based on the plurality of control points, performing the control of battery discharging.

Claims

1. A battery control method based on ageing-adaptive operation window, comprising the steps of:

performing a multi-dimensional electrochemical impedance spectrum (MD-EIS) method to obtain a three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram;

analyzing the three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram by using an equivalent circuit model (ECM), to obtain at least one ageing factor;

defining a stress index relation of a battery operation window, and defining, based on the stress index relation, a plurality of control reference points for the battery operation window; and

performing a battery discharging control based on the plurality of control reference points;

wherein the at least one ageing factor further includes a stress factor coefficient;

wherein the stress factor coefficient includes an impedance coefficient and a Warburg coefficient;

wherein the stress index relation is defined as impedance coefficient×

(x)+Warburg coefficient×

(1−

x), where x is a value between 0 and 1.

2. The battery control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram further includes a plurality of curves, each of the plurality of curves represents a plurality of battery characteristics at a specific discharge capacity, and a set of the plurality of curves represents the plurality of battery characteristics from a full charged state to a lowest capacity state.

3. The battery control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a transformation process of the equivalent circuit model comprises the steps of:

in the three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram, distinguishing a total impedance and separating from an inductance effect caused by metal elements of a battery at high frequency region, wherein the total impedance is the sum of a serial impedance in the battery, an impedance of a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film impedance formed on a surface of an electrode of the battery and a charge transfer impedance;

separating the serial impedance from the total impedance;

determining the stress factor coefficient by using the charge transfer impedance and the SEI film impedance; and

resolving and determining a Warburg coefficient.

4. The battery control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the impedance coefficient includes a charge transfer impedance and a SEI film impedance.

5. The battery control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of control reference points further include a control start point, a stop point of battery discharging, and a stop point of battery charging.

6. The battery control method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the control start point is defined as a point with a stress index value 5%-50% higher than the value at 50% SoC to start controlling the battery.

7. The battery control method as claimed in claim 5, wherein a selection of the control point for an aged battery follows an S4/S2=S3/S1 rule, wherein S1 and S2 are the lower stress indices for a fresh and the aged battery in a 50% SoC region respectively, and S3 and S4 are the control start points for the fresh and the aged batteries respectively.

8. The battery control method as claimed in claim 5, wherein a selection of the stop point of battery charging for an aged battery follows an S8/S2=S7/S1 rule, wherein 51 and S2 are the lower stress indices for a fresh and the aged battery in a 50% SoC region respectively, and S7 and S8 are the stop points of battery charging for the fresh and the aged batteries respectively.

9. The battery control method as claimed in claim 5, wherein a selection of the stop point of battery discharging for an aged battery is as follows:

S5 and S6 represent the stop points of battery discharging for a fresh and the aged batteries respectively, and the selection of S6 results in that S6 has the same stress index as S5.