Electrochemical Battery Lifetime Testing, Analysis and Estimation

Dear Colleagues,

In the past decade, electrochemical batteries have been developed as the key energy storage technology for a wide range of applications, from portable devices to electric vehicles and renewable energy storage systems. However, batteries are complex and non-linear devices, with their performance and lifetime strongly dependent on operating conditions. Thus, in order to benefit from their characteristics and to assess their suitability for a certain application, the lifetime and degradation behavior (e.g., capacity fade, power degradation) of a battery needs to be known and understood. Subsequently, power and energy management strategies can be developed, which would allow for lifetime maximization and battery cost optimization.

This Special Issue of Batteries focuses on various aspects regarding the lifetime and degradation behavior of batteries. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Lifetime testing of electrochemical batteries (e.g., Lithium-ion, NiMH, Lead-acid but also newer chemistries, such as Lithium­–Sulfur, Sodium Sulfur, etc.)
• Accelerated aging methods for batteries
• Battery lifetime modeling (e.g., electrochemical modeling, performance-degradation modeling, cycle counting, etc.)
• Assessment of battery performance parameters degradation during cycle and calendar aging (e.g., capacity fade, resistance increase, power degradation, etc.)
• Aging mechanisms
• Lifetime and performance-degradation estimation of batteries in various applications (e.g., e-mobility, renewable energy storage systems, UPSs, etc.)
• Optimal energy management strategies for batteries considering their performance-degradation behavior.

Assoc. Prof. Daniel-Ioan Stroe
Guest Editor

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