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Hazard Characterizations of Li-Ion Batteries: Thermal Runaway Evaluation by Calorimetry Methodology

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Rechargeable Batteries

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As society becomes more dependent on electronic equipment, the development of capable energy storing systems continues to grow at a rapid rate supported by the crucial demand all over the world. The most familiar products are consumer electronic devices such as computers, camcorders, cellular phones, power portable tools, industrial movement of materials handling equipment, and automotive applications. Rechargeable batteries have a lower total cost of use and fewer environmental impacts than the other disposable ones. As an energy-storage device, rechargeable batteries are characterized by high power density, flat discharge profiles, sound low temperature performance, addition to their rechargeable-ability. More recently, rechargeable batteries have received renewed interest as a power source for electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The advantage of the efforts and benefits is the automotive industry achieving high voltage energy storage systems. In addition, large-scale applications of rechargeable battery packs in EVs to reduce CO2 or other pollutants’ emissions are considered a green system from an environmentally friendly power source (Reddy and Linden in Handbook of batteries, 3rd edn. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002, [1; Julien in Materials for lithium-ion batteries. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp 1–20, 2000, 2]. With the rapid development of new energy vehicles, power battery industries swiftly have become a popular investment.

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This work was supported financially by China Medicine University (CMU), Taiwan, ROC (grant no. CMU102-N-09).

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  2. Department of Safety, Health, and Environmental Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, ROC

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Wang, YW., Shu, CM. (2015). Hazard Characterizations of Li-Ion Batteries: Thermal Runaway Evaluation by Calorimetry Methodology. In: Zhang, Z., Zhang, S. (eds) Rechargeable Batteries. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15458-9_15

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