Abstract: A battery system includes a housing configured to receive a battery cell, where the battery cell is configured to output thermal energy as a byproduct of electrical energy generation and/or consumption, a wall of the housing positioned proximate to the battery cell, and a plurality of fins extending from the wall, where the plurality of fins is configured to absorb thermal energy from the battery cell and dissipate the thermal energy to air, or a heat sink, or both, and where a fin of the plurality of fins comprises a channel configured to facilitate a flow of the air between the fin of the plurality of fins and an adjacent fin of the plurality of fins.

Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprising a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises a material A having a layered crystal structure comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen and has a particle size distribution with a span <1.0. The second powder has a monolithic morphology and a general formula Li1+bN?1-bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, with M? being one or both of Mn or Al, and E being a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has an average particle size D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the bimodal mixture is between 20 and 60 wt %.

Abstract: The present application provides a battery pack, a method for producing a battery pack and a vehicle. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery pack, the battery pack being disposed in the vehicle body. The battery pack includes a battery module and a case. The case has a containing chamber, and the battery module is located in the containing chamber. The battery module includes a plurality of battery units arranged in a horizontal direction, and each battery unit at least includes one battery cell. A size of the battery module in the horizontal direction is larger than a size of the battery module in a vertical direction. The size of the battery module in the vertical direction is L1, and a size of the battery pack in the vertical direction is L2, where 70%?L1/L2?95%.

Abstract: The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injection device associated with a supply of a fuel to the fuel cell, and a second injection device provided on an upstream side of the first injection device in a fuel flow passage from a fuel storage unit to the first injection device. The first and second injection devices switch a flow passage extending downstream from the fuel flow passage, between a first flow passage via the first injection device and second flow passage via the second injection device. The second injection device operates at a lower frequency than the first injection device during an operation of the fuel system.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and proposes a battery and a battery apparatus. The battery includes: a housing; a cell, the cell disposed in the housing. A pole element is disposed on the housing. A heat sink is disposed on the housing.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of batteries, and provide a water cooling assembly, a battery pack, and a device in order to solve the technical problem of low cooling efficiency of a cooling assembly of a battery pack. The water cooling assembly is configured to cool a cell, and includes: a body portion having a cooling channel for receiving a coolant; a first connecting portion connected to the body portion and having a communication cavity for introducing or draining the coolant; and a second connecting portion arranged between the body portion and the first connecting portion and having an inner cavity for communicating the cooling channel with the communication cavity. An end face of the inner cavity close to the cooling channel has a cross-sectional area greater than that of an end face of the communication cavity close to the inner cavity.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes an anode containing a phosphorus-carbon composite including a conductive carbon matrix and nano-sized phosphorus particles, wherein the nano-sized phosphorus particles are uniformly dispersed on the surface and/or pores of the carbon matrix.

Abstract: Provided are flow batteries that include a fluidic train within a dynamic fluidic network system which fluidic train is convertible between a first state and a second state, the first state the first state placing a main electrolyte source and a dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and an electrode region, into fluid communication with the electrode region and the second state placing the main electrolyte source and the dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and the electrode region, into fluid isolation from the electrode region and placing the electrode region into fluid communication with a sampling segment. Also provided are methods of operating flow batteries.

Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprises a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises particles of a material A comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen. The first powder has a particle size distribution characterized by a (D90?D10)/D50<1.0. The second powder comprises a material B having single crystal particles, said particles having a general formula Li+bN??bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, wherein M? is one or both of Mn or Al, and E is a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has a D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the mixture is between 15 and 60 wt %.

Abstract: The present application relates to a resin composition, a battery module comprising a cured product of the resin composition, a manufacturing method thereof and a battery pack. According to one example of the present application, injection processability of the resin composition can be improved, overloading of injection equipment can be prevented, and the battery module having excellent insulation properties can be provided.

Abstract: An apparatus can include one or more valves to couple with a thermal line of a battery pack. The apparatus can include one or more coolant channels to couple with one or more thermal components of the battery pack. The one or more valves can modify coolant flow from the thermal line to the one or more coolant channels.

Abstract: This application discloses a thermal management system for a battery pack and a thermal management system for an electric vehicle. the thermal management system for the battery pack includes: a thermal management device for the battery pack, a processor, and a solenoid valve network connected to the thermal management device for the battery pack. An external port of the solenoid valve network is connected to an external cooling system. The processor is configured to control operating status of a solenoid valve in the solenoid valve network, so that the thermal management device for the battery pack heats the battery pack by using heat generated by the external cooling system.

Abstract: A rail-bound vehicle includes an energy storage device having a traction battery and a cooling device for cooling the traction battery using a coolant circulating in at least one coolant circuit. The energy storage device supplies a traction device of the vehicle with electrical energy. At least one air-conditioning device air conditions a passenger compartment of a car of the vehicle using a refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circuit, and a control device controls the air-conditioning device. The air-conditioning device has a heat exchanger coupling the refrigerant circuit of the air-conditioning device to the coolant circuit of the cooling device of the energy storage device. The control device controls a flow of the refrigerant through the heat exchanger. An energy storage device, an air-conditioning device, an arrangement for cooling a traction battery and a method for controlling the arrangement are also provided.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption device, and a method and device for producing a battery. The battery includes: a battery cell, the battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism configured to be actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the battery cell reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure; a fire-fighting pipeline configured to accommodate a fire-fighting medium and discharge the fire-fighting medium toward the battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated; and an accommodating part configured to accommodate the fire-fighting medium discharged from the fire-fighting pipeline to lower a temperature of the battery cell. According to technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery could be enhanced.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for treating wastewater and generating electricity. The system includes layers of sediment containing microorganisms for treating the wastewater. The system includes layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide disposed on top of the sediment layers for enhancing electron transfer, current generation rate, and wastewater treatment. The system also includes one or more anodes and one or more cathodes located on top of the layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide. The one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes are configured to generate electrical voltage. The system also includes a battery connected to the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes and configured to store the electrical voltage generated by the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes.

Abstract: Grounding a component, such as a thermal management system, of a battery pack via a coolant is provided. An apparatus can include a body forming a channel to convey coolant within a battery pack. The apparatus can include a conductor electrically coupled to a ground. The conductor can include a lead into the channel to ground the coolant.

Abstract: A module layer and to a battery system made therefrom, which, as a device for supplying and storing electrical energy between two final end components, comprises a number of battery modules that are electrically connected to one another in series. Each module here consists of a number of elementary cells, which are generally lithium-ion batteries. The module layer is embodied as a structural unit, wherein the cells in the module layer are positioned next to one another in a tray, in an upright position on a base element of the tray, and are enclosed by an outer frame that is embodied as a heat sink and constitutes the rim of the tray, the outer frame has a seal, and the module layer has a section of a central shaft into which bus bars protrude, which produce a conductive connection with the cells of the respective module layer.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to the present invention, in which an electrode assembly is built in a cylindrical can, a top cap connected to a positive electrode of the electrode assembly is coupled to an upper end of the can, and the can is connected to a negative electrode. The secondary battery includes a cooling member which receives heat generated in the electrode assembly to release the heat and is coupled to a lower portion of the can, wherein the cooling member has a plurality of cooling pins disposed parallel to each other.

Abstract: Provided are methods of preparing a separator/anode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein the assembly comprises an anode current collector layer interposed between a first anode layer and a second anode layer and a porous separator layer on the side of the first anode layer opposite to the anode current collector layer, wherein the first anode layer is coated directly on the separator layer.

Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods of use for a crash safe battery pack that includes a case, a first battery module located within the case and mounted to the case with at least a breakaway mount, a second battery module located within the case, a frangible connection configured to provide electrical conduction between the first battery module and the second battery module, and a die configured to contact and separate the frangible connection when the crash safe battery pack is impacted with a sufficiently great connection breaking force.