Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life

Recycling and second life of lithium-ion batteries are vital for lowering the growing resource demand of sectors like mobility or home energy storage. However, an often-overlooked issue is the sometimes-unknown cell chemistry of batteries entering the end-of-life. In this work, a machine learning ba...

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Main Authors: Christopher Wett, Jörg Lampe, Dominik Görick, Thomas Seeger, Bugra Turan
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description Recycling and second life of lithium-ion batteries are vital for lowering the growing resource demand of sectors like mobility or home energy storage. However, an often-overlooked issue is the sometimes-unknown cell chemistry of batteries entering the end-of-life. In this work, a machine learning based approach for the identification of lithium-ion battery cathode chemistries is presented. First, an initial measurement boundary determination is introduced. Using the Python Battery Mathematical Modelling (PyBaMM) framework, synthetical partial open circuit voltage (OCV) charge and discharge curves are generated with an electrochemical single particle model for three different cathode chemistries and the initial state of charge and state of health values as well as the initial capacities are varied. The dV/dQ characteristics are chosen as features and four machine learning algorithms are trained on different lengths of OCV curves. The trade-off between achievable accuracy and the number of OCV steps showed that an increasing accuracy correlates with a higher step number. While extremely small charge and discharge capacities per step did not yield sufficient testing accuracies, capacities starting from 0.2 Ah per step up to 0.6 Ah per step showed increasingly good results with an accuracy of up to 89.3 % for 0.5 Ah and 15 OCV steps. Additionally, the approach was validated by classifying experimental data. The results especially demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach to distinguish between lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cells.
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spelling doaj-art-28f06afbcbe14f3b86d388b636f8c5be2025-01-27T04:22:22ZengElsevierEnergy and AI2666-54682025-01-0119100468Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-lifeChristopher Wett0Jörg Lampe1Dominik Görick2Thomas Seeger3Bugra Turan4Rheinische Hochschule Köln University of Applied Sciences, Vogelsanger Str. 295, 50825, Cologne, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Corresponding author.Rheinische Hochschule Köln University of Applied Sciences, Vogelsanger Str. 295, 50825, Cologne, North-Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyRheinische Hochschule Köln University of Applied Sciences, Vogelsanger Str. 295, 50825, Cologne, North-Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyUniversity of Siegen, Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, Paul-Bonatz-Str. 9-11, 57076, Siegen, North-Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyRheinische Hochschule Köln University of Applied Sciences, Vogelsanger Str. 295, 50825, Cologne, North-Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyRecycling and second life of lithium-ion batteries are vital for lowering the growing resource demand of sectors like mobility or home energy storage. However, an often-overlooked issue is the sometimes-unknown cell chemistry of batteries entering the end-of-life. In this work, a machine learning based approach for the identification of lithium-ion battery cathode chemistries is presented. First, an initial measurement boundary determination is introduced. Using the Python Battery Mathematical Modelling (PyBaMM) framework, synthetical partial open circuit voltage (OCV) charge and discharge curves are generated with an electrochemical single particle model for three different cathode chemistries and the initial state of charge and state of health values as well as the initial capacities are varied. The dV/dQ characteristics are chosen as features and four machine learning algorithms are trained on different lengths of OCV curves. The trade-off between achievable accuracy and the number of OCV steps showed that an increasing accuracy correlates with a higher step number. While extremely small charge and discharge capacities per step did not yield sufficient testing accuracies, capacities starting from 0.2 Ah per step up to 0.6 Ah per step showed increasingly good results with an accuracy of up to 89.3 % for 0.5 Ah and 15 OCV steps. Additionally, the approach was validated by classifying experimental data. The results especially demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach to distinguish between lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cells.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666546824001344Lithium-ion batteriesSecond-lifeRecyclingCell chemistryIdentificationMachine learning
spellingShingle Christopher Wett
Jörg Lampe
Dominik Görick
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Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
Energy and AI
Lithium-ion batteries
Second-life
Recycling
Cell chemistry
Identification
Machine learning
title Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
title_full Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
title_fullStr Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
title_full_unstemmed Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
title_short Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life
title_sort identification of cell chemistries in lithium ion batteries improving the assessment for recycling and second life
topic Lithium-ion batteries
Second-life
Recycling
Cell chemistry
Identification
Machine learning
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