Battery knowledge · Other and emerging chemistries
Voltage delay
A temporary sag below the expected voltage when a load is first applied to a stored lithium primary cell, lasting until the current breaks up the passivating film on the lithium. Lithium–thionyl chloride cells show it most, worse when cold or after long storage; a parallel capacitor or a periodic depassivation pulse works around it.
- Also called
- passivation delay, voltage dip, transient minimum voltage
Example
Other and emerging chemistries: an example situation
Two chemistries can meet the same energy target with different voltage windows and charge termination.
Read Voltage delay alongside Lithium–sulfur dioxide cell in this context. A 3.0 V primary cell whose positive reactant, sulfur dioxide, is dissolved as a liquid under a few bar of pressure in the electrolyte and reduced on a porous carbon electrode. Built spiral-wound, it delivers high currents down to about −40 °C, which made it the classic military radio battery; the pressure means every cell needs a vent.
Use in Lemonergy
Do not carry lithium-ion assumptions into every chemistry.
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.
- Promise and reality of post-lithium-ion batteries with high energy densities
Jang Wook Choi, Doron Aurbach · Nature Reviews Materials · 2016
Topic background · Post-lithium-ion materials and battery concepts, including practical cell-level limitations; historical 2016 perspective.
- DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA
Sandia National Laboratories · 2013
Topic background · Storage technologies and grid services. The publisher notes that its historical cost and deployment figures are outdated.