Simulation of Battery Systems. Fundamentals and Applications

Table of Contents

Part I Basic Fundamentals1. Battery Technologies2. Electrochemistry of Batteries3. Fundamental Governing Equations4. Heat Sources

Part II Lead-Acid Batteries5. Introduction to Lead-Acid Batteries 6. Governing Equations 7. Numerical Simulation

Part III Zinc-Silveroxide Batteries8. Introduction to Zinc-Silveroxide Batteries 9. Governing Equations 10. Numerical Simulation

Part IV 11. Techno-economical Assessment of Battery Systems

AppendicesA. Experimental tests for lead-acid batteriesB. Experimental tests for zinc-silveroxide batteries

Authors

Farschad Torabi Assistant Professor, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Farschad Torabi is an assistant professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran. His research interests include renewable energies, batteries and electrochemical systems. His background is in mechanical engineering and his research agenda addresses numerical simulation, using a combination of computational fluid mechanics and analytical methods. Pouria Ahmadi University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Pouria Ahmadi is currently a lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Environment (ISEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). At UIUC he is working on electric vehicle selection towards sustainable transportation from various points of view from technical aspects to life cycle assessment and degradation model. Prior to joining UIUC, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fuel Cell Research Laboratory (FCReL) of Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He has 85 publications in high-ranked and peer-reviewed journals, and at international conferences, he has several book chapters in energy related books. He also serves as editorial board member, guest editor and organizer for ASME conferences.