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Development of a Safer Lithium-ion (Li-ion) Battery for Naval Aircraft Applications Through Thermal Management Design

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-14-C-0338
Agency Tracking Number: N14A-006-0272
Amount: $80,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N14A-T006
Solicitation Number: 2014.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2014
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2014-09-09
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2015-04-09
Small Business Information
9063 Bee Caves Road
Austin, TX -
United States
DUNS: 625120902
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Harry Perkinson
 Principal Investigator
 (512) 263-2101
 hperkinson@tri-austin.com
Business Contact
 Monte Fellingham
Title: Contracts Administrator
Phone: (512) 263-2101
Email: mfellingham@tri-austin.com
Research Institution
 Johns Hopkins University
 Sezin A Palmer
 
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
United States

 (240) 228-8913
 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. (TRI/Austin) is developing a lithium-ion battery module that will manage individual cell thermal runaways in two ways. The active management path will be to monitor the internal temperature of the cell and remove the cell from the charging/discharging circuit if anode or cathode temperatures exceed specified temperatures. Removal from the charging/discharging circuit will trigger the flow of forced CO2 around the overheating cell to bring down the cell"s internal temperature and to remove heat that would be conducted to other cells in the vicinity of the overheated cell. The second means of controlling the effects of a single cell thermal runaway will be to physically isolate the cells from one another using fire resistant, low thermal conductive composite materials that have been shown to produce low levels of fire and smoke and very low levels of toxic gases in the event of a fire. These two thermal management approaches will be integrated into a Battery Management Module that will allow use of Lithium-ion batteries in critical manned applications and when taken to the proposed technologies natural conclusion, will extend the life of the battery cells and improve the overall efficacy of Lithium-ion batteries.

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