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The integration of renewable sources poses challenges at the operational and economic levels of the power grid. In terms of keeping the balance between supply and demand, the usual scheme of supply following load may not be appropriate for…
Future power grids will entail large fleets of storage devices capable of scheduling their charging/discharging profiles so as to achieve lower peak demand and reduce energy bills, by shifting absorption times in sync with the availability…
We consider the problem of optimal charging/discharging of a bank of heterogenous battery units, driven by stochastic electricity generation and demand processes. The batteries in the battery bank may differ with respect to their…
Lithium-ion battery (Li-ion) is becoming the dominant energy storage solution in many applications such as hybrid electric and electric vehicles, due to its higher energy density and longer life cycle. For these applications, the battery…
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Conversion cathode materials are gaining interest for secondary batteries due to their high theoretical energy and power density. However, practical application as a secondary battery material is currently limited by practical issues such…
A significant problem associated with batteries is the rapid reduction of charge-storage capacity with increasing charge/discharge rate. For example, improving this rate-performance is required for fast-charging of car batteries.…
The quest for safe high-energy batteries with "5V-class" cathodes and lithium metal anodes drives research into solid electrolytes. However, reasons for the large charge transfer resistances -- the major bottleneck of all-solid-state…
The growing availability of second-life batteries (SLBs) from electric vehicles is reshaping future microgrid design, requiring planning frameworks that explicitly account for reduced capacity and efficiency over time. However, traditional…
The benefits of transmission line switching are well-known in terms of reducing operational cost and improving system reliability of power systems. However, finding the optimal power network configuration is a challenging task due to the…
Lithium-Sulfur batteries (LSBs) are believed to have a high potential for aerospace applications due to their high gravimetric energy density. However, despite decades of research and advances, they still suffer from poor rate capability…
Understanding how to structure a porous electrode to facilitate fluid, mass, and charge transport is key to enhance the performance of electrochemical devices such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, and redox flow batteries (RFBs). Using a…
Supercapacitors are promising electrochemical energy storage devices due to their prominent performance in rapid charging/discharging rates, long cycle life, stability, etc. Experimental measurement and theoretical prediction on charging…
In this paper, we investigate the polyhedral structure of two submodular sets with generalized upper bound (GUB) constraints, which arise as important substructures in various real-world applications. We derive a class of strong valid…
The sequential group-by-group charging/discharging in Li batteries with phase-separation thermodynamics was detected by numerical simulations and justified by several experiments published in literature. The present work is the first to…
Efficient use of multiple batteries is a practical problem with wide and growing application. The problem can be cast as a planning problem under uncertainty. We describe the approach we have adopted to modelling and solving this problem,…
While the spatial arrangement of individual units is essential for the physical implementation of quantum batteries, geometry-dependent interactions are rarely explicitly incorporated into existing theoretical models. To address this, we…
Battery degradation modes influence the aging behavior of Li-ion batteries, leading to accelerated capacity loss and potential safety issues. Quantifying these aging mechanisms poses challenges for both online and offline diagnostics in…
Redox Flow Batteries are a promising option for large-scale stationary energy storage. The vanadium redox flow battery is the most widely commercialized system thanks to its chemical stability and performance. This work aims to optimize the…