Short Circuit Analysis of 72Ah Li-Ion Battery Storage with Four Battery
Management Designs
Abstract
This paper presents the simulated study of 72Ah battery bank, where the
possibile causes of faults are analyzed due to varying temp. conditions
from 22º Celsius to 59º Celsius (71.6º F to 138.2º F), charging
conditions, which can lead to short-circuit, potentially causing
electrical shock, fire hazard, personal injury,property damage etc. Each
cell is 3.7 V, 6.66 Wh,1800 mA.The system comprises of 400 cells in 40
parallel arrays with 10 cells in each array and four battery management
system (BMS) designs were used in the simualtion. The short-circuit
study has been divided into two fault categories. First one due to
faults inside the design of battery management system (BMS) alone in
which nine faults are studied where the simulation was run for 20 hours
(72000 seconds) of simulation time for each of the nine fauts, that is
180 hrs or 648000 seconds of simulation time. The second fault cause is
attributed due to mixed faults which comprises faults due to batteries
in battery bank and due to faulty BMS which resulted in improper
charging of the cells. Eleven faults are found in the second case, where
again, the simulation was run for 20 hours (72000 seconds) of simulation
time for each of the eleven fauts, that is 220 hrs or 792000 seconds. In
total, the simulation study is of 1440 000 seconds or 400 hrs or 16.666
days. The data leading to this study and conclusions has also been
uploaded.