The tried and true method for
designing batteries. The Battery Design Studio® software
is based on years of testing and used by battery developers around the
world.
Battery Design Studio® is an essential tool for
battery professionals. This user-friendly software environment contains everything
you need for analyzing battery data, design, and simulation of batteries (cells and packs).
Use the software to design experiments, analyze experimental data,
maintain a database of components and cell designs, carry out simulations,
fit model parameters, and generate reports.
Experimentalists use Battery Design Studio®
for data analysis and visualization. The Outviewer program works
with data from many commercial battery cyclers to visualize and analyze
test data.
The software provides a powerful means to exchange
information with colleagues in a consistent and complete manner.
The software now includes a gap analysis for hybrid
electric vehicle (HEV) batteries. The software can analyze test data
for HEV batteries to determine how well the batteries meet USABC
goals.
Order Battery Design Studio® (Lithium-ion
version; ask about other chemistries). to start designing and modeling battery performance. A battery
is an extremely complex physicochemical system that can really only be
understood with the aid of mathematical models. Battery Design
Studio® provides users with easy access to these models.
Battery developers
- don't reinvent the wheel. Use Battery Design Studio®
as the foundation of your proprietary battery design software.
Battery Design Studio® can be easily customized to your
proprietary designs at a much lower cost than developing or supporting
in-house software maintenance.
Besides lower cost, Battery Design Studio®
provides battery developers with more features.
Visualization tools allow you to rapidly analyze
both experimental and simulation results.
Battery Design Studio® provides a series of
user-friendly interfaces that allow the battery design (spiral wound or stack
cell) to be specified. The design information is automatically linked to a
simulation model that can predict current/voltage/temperature behavior.
Simulation model parameters are obtained by fitting to experimental data, and
tools are provided to help accomplish this task.
Simulation models can reduce an entire
database of experimental results to a single set of simulation
parameters. These parameters can be encrypted and distributed so that
others can use them to simulate battery performance without having access to the
underlying design information. In this way, battery users can evaluate
batteries under their specific use conditions without having to carry out
expensive and time-consuming battery testing. The net result - battery
developers can reduce the time required to qualify their products while providing more value to
their customers.
Cell models can be used to estimate performance of
packs. Different cells can be evaluated as well as different
internal arrangements.
The standard version is specific for lithium-ion
chemistries; other chemistries (Li/SOCl2, Zn/Air) can be provided on
request. Lithium-ion simulation models for mixtures of active
materials, and multi-layer coatings are available.
Battery Design Studio® is designed with
flexibility and modularity so it can be easily customized. Battery
developers can realize significant cost savings by using Battery Design
Studio® as an in-house platform for battery design rather than
develop a package from scratch. The maintenance cost of in-house
software can be significantly reduced by using Battery Design Studio®.
For experts in modeling, a software development kit
is available that allows development of custom models. Start
with one of the following models:
1) BDS_DUAL
- lithium-ion simulator similar to Newman's DUALFOIL (Duhamel solution to
solid-phase diffusion problem) but with more options.
2)
BDS_DUAL2N - lithium-ion simulator that solves solid-phase diffusion
problem for N different active materials in each electrode using
Duhamel's method.
3) BDS_DIST - lithium-ion
simulator that solves solid-phase diffusion problem numerically.
4)
BDS_DISTNP - lithium-ion simulator that solves solid-phase diffusion
problem numerically for N different active materials in each electrode.
5)
BDS_Lump - lithium-ion simulator that solves solid-phase diffusion problem
using lumped-parameter model.
6) BDS_Lump2D -
lithium-ion simulator that solves solid-phase diffusion problem using
lumped-parameter model including current profiles along length of
electrodes.
7) BDS_FOIL - simulator for
lithium metal anode with intercalation cathode.
8)
BDS_SOCL2 - Lithium thionyl chloride simulator.
9)
BDS_ZnAir - Primary Zinc Air simulator.
