Battery knowledge · Safety and abuse
Critical self-heating temperature
The highest temperature from which a cell, in its actual surroundings, can still cool back down; above it, self-heating outruns heat loss and thermal runaway follows even if the heat source is removed. Unlike the onset temperature, which is measured adiabatically, it depends on the installation: better cooling raises it, while larger cells and higher SOC lower it.
- Also called
- critical temperature, point of no return
Example
Safety and abuse: an example situation
A low normal-load temperature does not demonstrate thermal-runaway containment.
Read Critical self-heating temperature alongside Accelerating rate calorimetry in this context. A test in which a cell sits in an adiabatic chamber that follows its temperature, so any self-heating is not lost to the surroundings. It measures the onset temperature, the self-heating rate and the temperature at which runaway becomes unstoppable.
Use in Lemonergy
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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.