Battery knowledge · Safety and abuse
Aerogel
A solid foam, usually of silica, that is mostly air held in nanometre-scale pores, giving a thermal conductivity of only about 0.015–0.02 W/(m·K). Sheets a millimetre or two thick between cells slow heat transfer during a thermal event, though they must keep their insulation under the compression of swelling cells.
- Also called
- silica aerogel, aerogel sheet
Example
Safety and abuse: an example situation
A low normal-load temperature does not demonstrate thermal-runaway containment.
Read Aerogel alongside Compression pad in this context. A foam sheet between pouch or prismatic cells that keeps a defined pressure on them as they breathe on charge and swell with age. It also provides some thermal separation between neighbours.
Use in Lemonergy
Connect mechanisms with appropriate test evidence.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Thermal runaway mechanism of lithium ion battery for electric vehicles: A review
Xuning Feng et al. · Energy Storage Materials · 2018
Topic background · Electrical, mechanical and thermal abuse; thermal-runaway mechanisms and propagation.