Lithium-ion battery electrolyte emissions analyzed by coupled thermogravimetric/Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

In the last few years the use of Li-ion batteries has increased rapidly, powering small as well as large applications, from electronic devices to power storage facilities. The Li-ion battery has, however, several safety issues regarding occasional overheating and subsequent thermal runaway. During such episodes, gas emissions from the electrolyte are of special concern because of their toxicity, flammability and the risk for gas explosion. In this work, the emissions from heated typical electrolyte components as well as from commonly used electrolytes are characterized using FT-IR spectroscopy and FT-IR coupled with thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, when heating up to 650 °C. The study includes the solvents EC, PC, DEC, DMC and EA in various single, binary and ternary mixtures with and without the LiPF6 salt, a commercially available electrolyte, (LP71), containing EC, DEC, DMC and LiPF6 as well as extracted electrolyte from a commercial 6.8 Ah Li-ion cell. Upon thermal heating, emissions of organic compounds and of the toxic decomposition products hydrogen fluoride (HF) and phosphoryl fluoride (POF3) were detected. The electrolyte and its components have also been extensively analyzed by means of infrared spectroscopy for identification purposes.

Organic carbonates

Electrolyte

Phosphoryl fluoride

Hydrogen fluoride

TG/FT-IR

Lithium-ion

Författare

Simon Bertilsson

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Carl Fredrik Larsson

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Maurizio Furlani

Göteborgs universitet

Ingvar Albinsson

Göteborgs universitet

Bengt-Erik Mellander

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Journal of Power Sources

0378-7753 (ISSN)

Vol. 365 446-455

Ämneskategorier

Materialteknik

Annan fysik

Organisk kemi

Styrkeområden

Transport

Energi

DOI

10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.08.082

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Skapat

2017-10-07