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WCX 2024 preview: Injecting
safety into the battery formula
ENGINEERING EVENTS
Amphenol's global connectivity portfolio will grow
with the growth of electrification, so safe systems
improve the adoption rate and benefit Amphenol.
Second, Amphenol's sensor portfolio enables battery
and EV safety.
Amphenol provides much of the EV's sensor
content for battery/motor/inverter thermal
management, current sensing, motor speed, and
thermal runaway detection. The work I do for
Amphenol and the volunteer role as chair of SAE's
Battery Standards Steering Committee and SEA First/
Second Responders Task Force are complementary,
and I learn from each field incident and challenge
myself to understand how batteries fail, how we can
detect that failure, and how can it be prevented in
future designs.
What aspects of battery safety most interest you?
Understanding the complex physics of cell failure and
how these issues can be prevented in future designs. I
have the opportunity to learn from the best experts in
this emerging field and feel rewarded in being able to
share that knowledge with engineers and first
responders with the goal of preserving life and
improving outcomes.
Among industry, academia, government, etc., what
aspects of battery safety do you think they are
getting right and what they are getting wrong?
Latest-generation designs show a much better
understanding of battery failure as a multiphysics
problem and are beginning to address not only
thermal propagation, but also address cell venting
management, providing protection against arc
discharge with cell venting gasses as well as the risk
of gas ignition from entrained particles.
UPDATE
Share your battery product
with thousands at WCX 2024
Planned for WCX 2024 is a
battery pavilion at the front of
the show floor. To reserve a
booth in that highly traveled
spot, contact Becky Courson,
724-772-4001.
We still need to address
hazardous and flammable gas
release in enclosed spaces, as
well as provide improvements for
safe discharge of damaged
battery arrays and address the
hazards in transport of
damaged/end-of-life cells. n
Written by PATRICK PONTICEL, Editor
(retired).
December 2023
37
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