Coupling Analysis and Performance Study of Commercial 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries under Conditions of Temperature and Vibration

• Main Authors: Lijun Zhang, Zhongqiang Mu, Xiangyu Gao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-10-01
• Series: Energies
• Subjects: electric vehicles; 18650 lithium-ion batteries; temperature-vibration coupling conditions; nonparametric test; orthogonal test
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/10/2856

At present, a variety of standardized 18650 commercial cylindrical lithium-ion batteries are widely used in new energy automotive industries. In this paper, the Panasonic NCR18650PF cylindrical lithium-ion batteries were studied. The NEWWARE BTS4000 battery test platform is used to test the electrical performances under temperature, vibration and temperature-vibration coupling conditions. Under the temperature conditions, the discharge capacity of the same battery at the low temperature was only 85.9% of that at the high temperature. Under the vibration condition, mathematical statistics methods (the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test and the Kruskal-Wallis test) were used to analyze changes of the battery capacity and the internal resistance. Changes at a confidence level of 95% in the capacity and the internal resistance were considered to be significantly different between the vibration conditions at 5 Hz, 10 Hz, 20 Hz and 30 Hz versus the non-vibration condition. The internal resistance of the battery under the Y-direction vibration was the largest, and the difference was significant. Under the temperature-vibration coupling conditions, the orthogonal table L9 (34) was designed. It was found out that three factors were arranged in order of temperature, vibration frequency and vibration direction. Among them, the temperature factor is the main influencing factor affecting the performance of lithium-ion batteries.