Battery Management and Energy Storage Systems

Sustainable microgrids and long-range electric vehicles are gaining traction worldwide, with new sustainable and clean energy initiatives and rebates being introduced. Accelerating this goal of transitioning to clean energy systems involves revamping existing fossil-based vehicles, aircraft, ships, and power plants to microgrid sources with battery-based energy storage solutions. The battery banks in such storage solutions incorporate electrochemistry, which either provides high energy or high power density, or both. Hence, their interconnection, charge management, energy management, balancing requirements, and operational sequence need to be managed. These operations preferably need to be performed optimally and continuously while accounting for capacity degradations factors (like capacity fade, cycle aging, and calendar aging) and intrinsic operational factors (such as minor/major hysteresis, diffusion, and unmetered charge compensation). In addition, measurement/data acquisition accuracy is another topic of concern in such storage systems as operational/control decisions involve transfer functions whose output sensitivity plays an important role.

Therefore, this Special Issue is focused on recent progress and developments in battery management optimization and energy storage systems’ energy management schemes.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Energy management systems;
• Ancillary services optimization;
• Innovations in urban air mobility;
• Innovations in mobile power or marine battery stations;
• Optimal thermal management approach;
• Lifecycle assessment of energy storage systems;
• Innovations in modeling approaches, prognostics, and safety;
• Sensitivity analysis.

Dr. Asadullah Khalid
Dr. Huachao Yang
Guest Editors

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