Modelling of cycling of lithium battery with microporous carbon electrode

• Main Author: D. Portnyagin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Condensed Matter Physics 2008-12-01
• Series: Condensed Matter Physics
• Subjects: lithium battery; porous electrode; potentiometry
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.11.4.669

Charge/discharge cycles of lithium cell with microporous carbon electrode under potentiodynamic control have been modelled. Predictions of the models with variable and constant diffusion coefficient neglecting the electric field inside the particle (CPM, DFM) are compared to the predictions of the models with variable and constant diffusion coefficient in which electrostatic interaction inside the particles of carbon electrode (CPME, DFME) is taken into account. There is observed a considerable difference between both. Electrostatic interactions of lithium ions with each other and the charge distributed inside the particle promote intercalation during the discharge of the cell and deintercalation during the charge. The dependance of the effect of hysteresis during the cycling of the cell on the rate of change of the applied voltage is studied. The larger is the speed of change of the applied voltage the more effective is hysteresis. We have also obtained concentration profiles at different stages of charge/discharge process.