2nd Young Scholar’s Symposium on Battery Design and Management (BDM 2017)

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the 2nd Young Scholar’s Symposium on Battery Design and Management will be held this year in Tongji University, Shanghai, China, from June 8 to 10, 2017. The symposium was held for the first time last year (2016) in Tsinghua University, China. Around 100 young scholars from all over China, whose research interests fall into the fields of battery design and management, attended the symposium. There were many discussions regarding the science and technology of battery design and management in the symposium.

The Young Scholar’s Symposium on Battery Design and Management encompasses a range of disciplines concerning the technologies of battery design, modeling, state estimation, thermal management and safety, etc. This symposium aims to establish close links among these fields, set up system science based on knowledge from other sciences and promote multidisciplinary solutions to settle the complex battery system problems.

The conference website is: http://www.iceee.net/BDM2017/index.html

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Battery modeling: equivalent circuit model, electrochemical model, thermal model, and aging model

• Battery state estimation: State of Charge, State of Health, State of Life, and State of Power Estimation

• Battery diagnosis, prognosis, and health management (PHM): physics-based, model-based, data-driven, and hybrid approaches

• Battery electrochemical/material characteristics: cathode, anode, separator, and electrolyte.

• Battery cell balancing: passive and active balancing methods; cell consistency assessment

• Battery grouping/packing techniques: architectural analysis, sensor placement, and power electronic aspects

• Battery cooling systems and battery thermal management systems (BTMS)

• Battery charging control

• BMS hardware design and verification

• System-level integration and control of batteries into electric vehicles and smart grid

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact: Dr. Rui Xiong, Editorial Board, Energies (rxiong@bit.edu.cn)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haifeng Dai
Assist. Prof. Dr. Chao Hu
Assist Prof. Dr. Yuhua Chang
Guest Editors

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