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Electrochemical Energy Storage: Batteries, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 May 2025) | Viewed by 519

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Dear Colleagues,

The effort to tackle climate change and achieve a greener and more sustainable society, firmly based on the use of renewable energy sources, actually simultaneously requires the adoption of a more efficient synergic approach based on the simultaneous use of different technologies. In this framework, the combination of electrochemical batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen technologies probably represents the most promising strategy that can be used to reach this goal. However, several critical issues in all those technologies, either linked to materials, duration, efficiency, safety, reliability, and so on, as well as their optimal integration, still need to be addressed and solved to allow their stable adoption in a wider range of applications, such as electric vehicles and larger energy storage systems.

This Special issue aims to provide a broad overview of the most recent updates on electrochemical batteries, fuel cells, as well as hydrogen production, storage, and conversion technologies (either in the form of review articles or research papers).

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Components materials;
  • Nanomaterials for energy storage;
  • Solar-based ESS;
  • Renewable energy integration and grid applications;
  • Modelling and simulation of energy storage materials, fuel cells, and electrochemical capacitors;
  • The mitigation of degradation paths in automotive energy systems;
  • Advancements in systems control;
  • Cost reduction strategies;
  • Advanced catalysts for fuel cells;
  • Reversible fuel cells;
  • Realistic and safe solutions for sustainable hydrogen production, storage, and transportation;
  • Economic analyses and business models related to hydrogen technologies.

Dr. Roberto Bubbico
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Keywords

  • energy storage systems
  • batteries thermal modelling
  • battery thermal management
  • hydrogen production and conversion
  • hydrogen storage and transportation
  • fuel cell systems
  • PEMFC
  • SOFC

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Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Suppression Using Water Spray Cooling
by Eric Huhn, Nicole Braxtan, Shen-En Chen, Anthony Bombik, Tiefu Zhao, Lin Ma, John Sherman and Soroush Roghani
Energies 2025, 18(11), 2709; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112709 - 23 May 2025
Abstract
Despite the commercial success of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the risk of thermal runaway, which can lead to dangerous fires, has become more concerning as LIB usage increases. Research has focused on understanding the causes of thermal runaway and how to prevent or detect [...] Read more.
Despite the commercial success of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the risk of thermal runaway, which can lead to dangerous fires, has become more concerning as LIB usage increases. Research has focused on understanding the causes of thermal runaway and how to prevent or detect it. Additionally, novel thermal runaway-resistant materials are being researched, as are different methods of constructing LIBs that better isolate thermal runaway and prevent it from propagating. However, field firefighters are using hundreds of thousands of liters of water to control large runaway thermal emergencies, highlighting the need to merge research with practical observations. To study battery fire, this study utilized a temperature abuse method to increase LIB temperature and investigated whether thermal runaway can be suppressed by applying external cooling during heating. The batteries used were pouch-type ones and subjected to high states of charge (SOC), which primed the thermal runaway during battery temperature increase. A water spray method was then devised and tested to reduce battery temperature. Results showed that, without cooling, a thermal runaway fire occurred every time during the thermal abuse. However, external cooling successfully prevented thermal runaway. This observation shows that using water as a temperature reducer is more effective than using it as a fire suppressant, which can substantially improve battery performance and increase public safety. Full article
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