Method for measuring the internal resistance of batteries

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10921380-B2
Application number	US-201816177355-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2018
Priority date	Nov 1, 2017
Publication date	Feb 16, 2021
Grant date	Feb 16, 2021

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for measuring an internal resistance of a battery, after discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current, acquiring voltages of the battery within a period from ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable, and then calculating different corresponding internal resistances caused by ohmic polarization, electrochemical polarization and concentration polarization separately. Since it is different for the orders of the magnitude of the characteristic time which these different polarizations need to get back into new equilibrium state after ending the discharging/charging, the method of the present disclosure classifies the internal resistances caused by these polarizations and calculated different internal resistances corresponding to the polarizations. Both the comparison with a result measured by other method and multiple embodiments in the application justify that the method in the present disclosure has high reliability and strong practicability.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for measuring an internal resistance of batteries, the internal resistance comprising an ohmic internal resistance, a charge-transfer internal resistance and a diffusion internal resistance, the method comprising the following steps:
providing a battery, and controlling a temperature of the battery to a measure temperature;
discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current I for a preset time and then ending the discharging/charging, acquiring voltages of the battery from a time ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable;
recording a voltage V 1 at the time ending the discharging/charging, a voltage V 2 at a time when an ohmic overpotential disappears, a voltage V 3 at a time when both the ohmic overpotential and an electrochemical overpotential disappear, and a voltage V 4 at a time when all of the ohmic overpotential, the electrochemical overpotential and a concentration overpotential disappear; and
calculating at least one of the ohmic internal resistance, the charge-transfer internal resistance and the diffusion internal resistance separately based on the preset constant-current I and at least one of necessary voltages selecting from V 1 , V 2 , V 3 and V 4 .

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the ohmic internal resistance Ro is calculated based on a formula Ro=|V 2 −V 1 |/I.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the charge-transfer internal resistance is calculated based on a formula Rct=|V 3 −V 2 |/I.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the diffusion internal resistance is calculated based on a formula Rd=|V 4 −V 3 |/I.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a value of V 2 is a plateau voltage at a first plateau after the voltage rising/drop from V 1 .

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein value points of V 3 are determined by a formula |dV/dt|/V<C 1 and are the points where a ratio between a voltage change-value relative to time and the voltage at that time is less than a preset value C 1 .

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the preset value C 1 is between 0.001 s −1 to 0.5 s −1 .

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the preset value of C 1 is between 0.01 s −1 to 0.2 s −1 .

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein V 4 is a voltage value where the voltage of the battery reaches stable.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an SOC of the battery provided is between 0% and 100%.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the preset constant-current I is selected from a scope of 0.1 CA to 30 CA.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a time for discharging/charging under the preset constant-current is selected from a scope of 0.01 seconds to 10 hours.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the time for discharging/charging under the preset constant-current is selected from a scope of 1 second to 300 seconds.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the voltages V 1 , V 2 , V 3 and V 4 are acquired by a high-speed data acquisition system, and a time-step of the high-speed data acquisition system is selected within a scope from 0.1 microsecond to 1 second.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the time-step of the high-speed data acquisition system is selected within a scope from 1 microsecond to 1 millisecond.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measure temperature is between −60° C. and 150° C.

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measure temperature is between −30° C. and 60° C.

18. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said controlling a temperature of the battery to a measure temperature is realized by the following steps: adjusting working environment to a measure temperature, and then placing the battery into the working environment until its temperature being consistent with the measure temperature.

19. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current I for a preset time is realized by the following: first connecting the battery with a battery tester and a high-speed data acquisition system; after resting under measure temperature without load for 0-2 hours, a voltage of the battery reaching stable; and then discharging/charging under the constant-current I.

20. A method for measuring an internal resistance of batteries, the internal resistance comprising an ohmic internal resistance, a charge-transfer internal resistance and a diffusion internal resistance, the method comprising the following steps:
providing a battery, and controlling a temperature of the battery to a measure temperature;
discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current I for a preset time and then ending the discharging/charging, acquiring voltages of the battery from a time ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable;
recording a voltage V 1 at the time ending the discharging/charging, a voltage V 2 at a time when an ohmic overpotential disappears, a voltage V 3 at a time when both the ohmic overpotential and an electrochemical overpotential disappear, and a voltage V 4 at a time when all of the ohmic overpotential, the electrochemical overpotential and a concentration overpotential disappear; and
calculating at least one of the ohmic internal resistance, the charge-transfer internal resistance and the diffusion internal resistance separately based on the preset constant-current I and at least one of necessary voltages selecting from V 1 , V 2 , V 3 and V 4 ;
wherein value points of V 3 are determined by a formula |dV/dt|/V<C 1 and are the points where a ratio between a voltage change-value relative to time and the voltage at that time is less than a preset value C 1 .

21. A method for measuring an internal resistance of batteries, the internal resistance comprising an ohmic internal resistance, a charge-transfer internal resistance and a diffusion internal resistance, the method comprising the following steps:
providing a battery, and controlling a temperature of the battery to a measure temperature;
discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current I for a preset time and then ending the discharging/charging, acquiring voltages of the battery from a time ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable;
recording a voltage V 1 at the time ending the discharging/charging, a voltage V 2 at a time when an ohmic overpotential disappears, a voltage V 3 at a time when both the ohmic overpotential and an electrochemical overpotential disappear, and a voltage V 4 at a time when all of the ohmic overpotential, the electrochemical overpotential and a concentration overpotential disappear; and
calculating at least one of the ohmic internal resistance, the charge-transfer internal resistance and the diffusion internal resistance separately based on the preset constant-current I and at least one of necessary voltages selecting from V 1 , V 2 , V 3 and V 4 ;
wherein V 4 is a voltage value where the voltage of the battery reaches stable.

22. A method for measuring an internal resistance of batteries, the internal resistance comprising an ohmic internal resistance, a charge-transfer internal resistance and a diffusion internal resistance, the method comprising the following steps:
providing a battery, and controlling a temperature of the battery to a measure temperature;
discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant

Assignees

• Microvast Power Systems Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fang Weifeng
• Dong Xuezhong
• Li Qiru
• Gao Po
• Liu Mattis Wenjuan

Classifications

• H01M10/486

  for measuring temperature · CPC title

• G01R31/367

  Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables · CPC title

• H01M10/44

  Methods for charging or discharging (circuits for charging H02J7/00) · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• G01R31/3835

  involving only voltage measurements · CPC title