Battery cabinet preheating technology

Why is battery preheating important in cold climates?

Charging at low temperature will induce lithium deposition, and in severe cases, it may even penetrate the separator and cause internal short, resulting in an explosion. Therefore, battery preheating techniques are key means to improve the performance and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries in cold climates.

How to preheat cold batteries quickly without damaging them?

However, it is difficult to preheat cold batteries rapidly without damaging them. Therfore, an intelligent preheating approach based on high-gain control is developed to adaptively adjust the ac heating current based on heating rate and battery temperature.

How to preheat a battery with a high temperature?

Eventually, the improvement of the battery’s output performance is discussed. The results reveal that the proposed designs can effectively preheat the battery with a temperature rise higher than 10°C. The single-PCM design using LiNO 3 ·3H 2 O shows the best preheating ability, while CH 3 COONa·3H 2 O is the most economical.

Which preheating method is best for EV batteries?

Due to low thermal conductivity and high space requirement, air preheating is only suitable for early generation EVs with low energy density batteries. At the moment, liquid preheating is the most commonly used method since it has demonstrated good preheating performance and consistent temperature distribution.