Simulation of Battery Systems

Part I Basic Fundamentals
1. Battery Technologies
1.1 History and applications
1.2 Famous Battery Types
1.3 Life Cycle Assessment
1.4 Environmental Impacts
2. Electrochemistry of Batteries
2.1 Basics of Electrochemistry
2.2 Faraday’s law
2.3 Ohm’s law
2.4 Butler-Volmer and Tafel laws
3 Fundamental Governing Equations
3.1 Porous electrode theory
3.2 Volume-averaging technique
3.3 Governing equations
3.3.1 Conservation of electrical charge in solid electrode
3.3.2 Conservation of electrical charge in electrolyte
3.3.3 Conservation of mass
3.3.4 Conservation of momentum
3.3.5 Balance of energy
4 Heat Sources
4.1 Heat generation
4.1.1 Reversible heat of reactions
4.1.2 Irreversible heat of reactions
4.2 Joule heating
4.3 General Joule heating concept
4.4 Heat dissipation
4.4.1 Conduction
4.4.2 Convection
4.4.3 Radiation
4.4.4 Exhausting enthalpy

Part II Lead-Acid Batteries
5. Introduction to Lead-Acid Batteries
5.1 Types and applications
5.2 Electrochemical Reactions
5.3 Physical characteristics
6. Governing Equations
6.1 Volume-averaged isothermal fundamental governing equations
6.2 Thermal behavior and governing equations
6.3 Physico-chemical properties
7. Numerical Simulation
7.1 One-dimensional simulation
7.2 Electrolyte stratification
7.3 Simulation of thermal behavior of lead-acid batteries

Part III Zinc-Silveroxide Batteries
8. Introduction to Zinc-Silveroxide Batteries
8.1 Types and aplications
8.2 Electrochemical Reactions
8.3 Physical characteristics
9. Governing Equations
9.1 Volume-averaged isothermal fundamental governing equations
9.2 Thermal behaviour and governing equations
9.3 Phisico-chemical properties
10. Numerical Simulation
10.1 One-dimensional simulation
10.2 Two-dimensional simulation of zinc-silveroxide batteries
10.3 Simulation of thermal behavior of zinc-silveroxide batteries

Part IV
11. Techno-economical Assessment of Battery Systems

Appendices
A. Experimental tests for lead-acid batteries
B. Experimental tests for zinc-silveroxide batteries