from chemistry to pack
An ICP-OES/XPS Root-Cause Workflow Investigation of Catastrophic Battery Failures walks through one forensic case study of field failures in e-bikes and e-scooters. This page covers a narrower question that sits underneath a lot of those investigations: when a cell has aged badly or failed and cathode transition-metal dissolution is on the suspect list, how do … Read more
Separator Failure Modes and Internal Short Circuit This is a worked example accompanying Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in Battery Design. It walks through a single DFMEA line at cell level in full, from failure mode to recommended action, using the separator as the subject. The separator is a good first example because it … Read more
CompreCell Pouch x TekScan Sensor Author: rhd instruments GmbH & Co. KG Post based on an application note for which that and a full summary are now available: rhd-instruments.de magazine Introduction The pressure applied to pouch cell batteries is key to their performance and cycle life [1, 2, 3, 4]. One of two modes of … Read more