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An Experimental Study on Fire Suppression Devices for Power Batteries of Hybrid Electric Multiple Units

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The hybrid type electric multiple units (EMUs) are generally equipped with LiCoO2/Li4Ti5O12 lithium-titanate (LTO) batteries. LTO batteries are often in a state of high-rate charging and discharging since they are mainly used for emergency traction and braking recycling of EMUs. Under such operating conditions, LTO batteries have a higher risk of thermal runaway, which would induce battery fires in the operation and lead to grave consequences. In this paper, a fire suppression device containing a fire detection tube was proposed for the power battery system of hybrid EMUs. Meanwhile, experiments were conducted to detect thermal runaway of the single battery and thermal expansion of the battery module installed with the fire suppression device. The fire detection tube was filled with clean agent Dodecafluoro-2-methylpentan-3-one. During the experiment, when triggering the process of thermal runaway, the fire suppression device prevented the battery from catching on fire successfully. Moreover, the fire suppression device had good cooling performance. The thermal runaway temperature of the battery with the fire suppression device installed was lowered to 130°C or so, compared with 550°C of the single battery alone. The fire suppression device was then installed in the battery system of a hybrid EMU, which performed well in operation.

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This work is supported by the Key Science and Technology R&D Project of Dalian China (No.2020YF18GX006) , the Major Science and Technology Research Project of CRRC Corporation Limited (No.2019CKZ205) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.WK5290000003).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Zheng Li & Peng Qin

  2. CRRC Dalian Institute Co., Ltd., Dalian, 116021, People’s Republic of China

    Zheng Li, Yao Fu, Aiqun Liu & Guangtai Chen

  3. CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicle Co., Ltd., Changchun, 130062, People’s Republic of China

    Xuefei Li

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Li, Z., Fu, Y., Liu, A. et al. An Experimental Study on Fire Suppression Devices for Power Batteries of Hybrid Electric Multiple Units. Fire Technol 59, 1303–1318 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-022-01351-x

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