Hochleistungsfähige Lithium-Ionen-Batterien sind insbesondere von der hohen spezifischen Kapazität ihrer Elektrodenmaterialien abhängig. Intermetallische Phasen sind vielversprechende Kandidaten für alternative Anodenmaterialien mit verbesserten spezifischen Kapazitäten (LiAl: 993 Ah/kg; Li22Si5: 4191 Ah/kg) gegenüber den derzeit vielfach verwendeten Kohlenstoff-Materialien (LiC6: 372 Ah/kg). Nachteilig ist jedoch, dass die kristallinen Phasenumwandlungen während der Lade-Entlade-Prozesse Volumenänderungen von 100-300% verursachen. Durch die Sprödigkeit der intermetallischen Phasen führt dies zum Zerbrechen des Elektrodenmaterials und damit zum Kontaktverlust. Um Lithiierungs- und Delithiierunsprozesse ohne kristalline Phasenumwandlungen zu realisieren und somit große Volumenänderungen zu vermeiden, wurden amorphe Al-Legierungen untersucht. In amorphe, mittels Schmelzspinnen hergestellte Legierungen (Al86Ni8La6 und Al86Ni8Y6) kann beim galvanostatischen Zyklieren nur sehr wenig Li eingelagert werden. Da kristalline Phasenumwandlungen im amorphen Zustand nicht möglich sind, wird für die Diffusion und Einlagerung von Li-Ionen ein ausreichendes freies Volumen im amorphen Atomgerüst benötigt. Die Dichtemessung der Legierungen zeigt, dass dieses freie Volumen für eine signifikante Lithiierung nicht ausreichend ist. Wird Li bereits in die amorphe Ausgangslegierung integriert, können Li-Ionen auf elektrochemischem Wege aus ihr entfernt und auch wieder eingebaut werden. Die neuartige Legierung Al43Li43Ni8Y6, die Li bereits im Ausgangszustand enthält, konnte mittels Hochenergiemahlung als amorphes Pulver hergestellt werden. Verglichen mit den Li-freien amorphen Legierungen Al86Ni8La6 bzw. Al86Ni8Y6 und ihren kristallisierten Pendants zeigt diese neu entwickelte, amorphe Legierung eine signifikant höhere Lithiierungsfähigkeit und erreicht damit eine spezifische Kapazität von ca. 800 Ah/kg bezogen auf den Al-Anteil. Durch den Abrieb des Stahlmahlbechers enthält das Pulver Al43Li43Ni8Y6 einen Fe-Anteil von ca. 15 Masse%. Dieses mit Fe verunreinigte Material zeigt besonders bei niedrigen Laderaten eine bessere Zyklenstabilität als ein im abriebfesten Siliziumnitrid-Becher gemahlenes Pulver der gleichen Zusammensetzung. Mittels Mössbauerspektroskopie wurde nachgewiesen, dass das Pulver z.T. oxidisches Fe enthält. Dieses kann über Konversionsmechanismen einen Beitrag zur spezifischen Kapazität leisten. / High-energy Li-ion batteries exceedingly depend on the high specific capacity of electrode materials. Intermetallic alloys are promising candidates to be alternative anode materials with enhanced specific capacities (LiAl: 993 Ah/kg; Li22Si5: 4191 Ah/kg) in contrast to state-of-the-art techniques, dominated by carbon materials (LiC6: 372 Ah/kg). Disadvantageously the phase transitions during the charge-discharge processes, induced by the lithiation process, cause volume changes of 100-300 %. Due to the brittleness of intermetallic phases, the fracturing of the electrode material leads to the loss of the electrical contact. In order to overcome the huge volume changes amorphous Al-based alloys were investigated with the intension to realize the lithiation process without a phase transformation. Amorphous powders (Al86Ni8La6 and Al86Ni8Y6) produced via melt spinning and subsequent ball milling only show a minor lithiation during the electrochemical cycling process. This is mainly caused by the insufficient free volume, which is necessary to transfer and store Li-ions, since phase transitions are impossible in the amorphous state. If Li is already integrated into the amorphous alloy, Li-ions can easily be removed and inserted electrochemically. The new alloy Al43Li43Ni8Y6 contains Li already in its initial state and could be prepared by high energy milling as an amorphous powder. Compared with the Li-free amorphous alloys Al86Ni8La6 or Al86Ni8Y6 and their crystalline counterparts, this newly developed amorphous alloy achieves a significantly higher lithiation and therefore reaches a specific capacity of 800 Ah/kg, based on the Al-content. By the abrasion of the steel milling vials the powder contains a wear debris of 15 mass% Fe. This contaminated material shows a better cycling stability than a powder of the same composition, milled in a non-abrasive silicon nitride vial. By means of Mössbauer spectroscopy has been shown that the wear debris contains Fe oxides. This may contribute to the enhancement of the specific capacity about conversion mechanisms.

This thesis deals with the development and current issues of Li-ion and Li-S accumulators, especially the separators. In the theoretical part is described history of Li-ion batteries, their properties and materials for the positive electrode. Li-S batteries and their problems are also described in this diploma thesis. In the practical part, electrochemical methods were described, and several separator samples with various modifications were created. These samples were then photographed using an SEM electron microscope and evaluated using electrochemical methods.

This diploma thesis deals with description of the principle of Li-ion cells, literature search on the topic of mathematical models of Li-ion cells and the creation of a selected mathematical model in MATLAB, which is able to simulate the course of voltage and state of charge as a function of time for different ambient conditions, such as various aging of battery .The creation of both the model and the procedure of identification of parameters necessary for the creation of the model are described here as well as different options of identification of parameters. The selected Thevenin model is then compared with the real course and the accuracy of the model is evaluated with respect to the measured course.

This thesis deals with a study of lithium-ion batteries. It is focused into negative electrode materials and electrolytes. In this thesis is presented synthesis, electrochemical properties, possibilities to improving negative electrode materials as LTO (Lithium Titanate Oxid) and graphite. These electrode materials were investigated with respect to their compatibility at electrolytes with carbonate solvents, Sulfolane and DMF (DiMethylFormamide) in detail. The main aim of this thesis is to characterize electrode materials and electrolyte properties depending on wide range of temperatures and their comparison for the purpose of achievement of the best solution. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The theoretical part of thesis describes composition, process of synthesis and analysis of lithium-ion cell. Practical part contains measuring and evaluating of charge-discharge and irreversible capacity characteristics related to variety of environmental temperatures.

This diploma thesis deals with the actual problems of sports car. This project solves the basic question of the future ecological cars drive and deals with problems related to ergonomics adherent to this type of car. The work includes a detailed retrieval study of the issue followed by the procedure of designing the car. The conclusion of the thesis deals with the detailed description and an analysis of the concept from several points of view. This thesis is also supplemented by preview of po-sters and multimedia presentation for 3D virtual reality.

This thesis deals with ionic liquids and use of ionic liquids as electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. Thesis describes basic characteristics of secondary electrochemical cells and characteristics of ionic liquids. Thesis also describes modifications and measurement of ionic liquids. Thesis also presents the results of measurement conductivity and potential window of modified ionic liquids.

The energy system is undergoing a transformation on a never before witnessed scale. The changes are driven by global market forces and technological advancements, improving on a seemingly exponential scale. This in turn has led to the price of both renewables and the accompanying technology decrease over time, making the transition into renewables more economically viable. The drawback of variable renewable energy is that it is variable and dependent on the surrounding environment. Therefore, storing the energy during hours of production, to be used at a later stage when energy demand is higher is becoming ever more important and an attractive option. The purpose of this degree project is to, from a set of performance indicators, evaluate three different energy storage technologies and their respective impact on a distribution grid. The examined storage technologies are: Batteries, Capacitators and a H2 Fuel cell. A literature study was performed in order to find out how grid performance is evaluated, and how the different storage technologies operate. The obtained literature comes from scientific reports, and papers, found by utilizing Mälardalens University library-database. A model representing a Swedish grid with a connection point to the distribution side was created. The model is taken from previous credited work, and customized to fit the operational parameters of a Swedish grid. It was decided that the key indicators for evaluating the state of a grid was to look at the: voltage- and frequency variations, load factor, capacity factor and the overall system efficiency. The simulation is a discrete time simulation that utilizes parameters indicative of one full day of data. The results showed that, from a technological standpoint, the supercapacitor performed better in more categories than the Li-ion battery and H2 fuel cell. However, the Li-ion battery reduced the peaks of the frequency measurements which is a key metric when deciding on grid health. Also, there is the added benefit of the battery and fuel cell of having a longer operational time before the state of charge is depleted. This increases the flexibility of the technology and could therefore be more beneficial in other applications where power supply is more scarce.

Det överhängande behovet av att minska utsläppen av växthusgaser för att uppfylla Parisavtalet har väckt ett ökat intresse för elektrifiering som en strategi för att mildra klimatförändringarna. Litiumjonbatterier spelar en central roll vid elektrifiering och har framträtt som det primära alternativet för batteridrivna elfordon. Batteriernas livstidsprestanda är dock en avgörande faktor för att bestämma deras kostnad och miljömässiga hållbarhet. Även om snabbladdning är ett gångbart alternativ för de kunder som vill maximera drifttiden så leder laddning vid höga strömmar till förhöjd åldring genom nedbrytning av elektrodmaterialet och elektrolyten. Nyligen genomförda studier har visat att pulsade laddningscykler kan förlänga livslängden för litiumjonbatterier. Mot bakgrund av detta har denna studie genomförts för att undersöka effekterna av pulsad laddning på bibehållande av kapacitet samt inre motstånd hos litiumjonbatterier. Cylindriska NMC-celler har cyklats med laddningsprofilen PPC-CV (Positive Pulsed Current-Constant Voltage) och deras prestanda har jämförts med motsvarande hos konventionell konstant ström-konstant spänning-laddning (CC-CV). En ny metod utvecklades och implementerades för att utföra en pulsad laddningsprofil inom ett definierat SoC-fönster (State-of-Charge). Testobjekten cyklades kontinuerligt under intervaller om 4 veckor med avbrott för standardiserade referensprestandatester (RPT) för att beräkna standardkapaciteten och det inre motståndet. Därutöver utfördes inkrementell kapacitetsanalys (ICA) och elektrokemisk impedansspektroskopi (EIS) för att utöka analysen. Enligt resultat visar de celler som cyklats med PPC-CV-profilen liknande eller något minskad kapacitetsminskning samt en lägre ökning av internt motstånd efter ungefär 700 ekvivalenta cykler. 0,01-Hz PPC-CV-profilen uppvisade en kapacitetsminskning på 3,65%, 1-Hz PPC-CV-profilen en på 3,75%, 100-Hz PPC-CV- profilen en på 4,06% och CC-CV-profilen en på 4,05%. De interna resistanserna förblev lägre än BOL-mätningarna i PPC-CV-testfallen, medan CC-CV-läget visar en snabbare ökning av internt motstånd. Batteriets hälsotillstånd (SoH) hade dock bara nått 95% under denna testfas, vilket innebär att ytterligare studier krävs för att dra definitiva slutsatser om pulsladdningens effekt på batteriets livslängd. För att ytterligare förstå effekten av pulsade laddningsprofiler på livslängden hos litiumjonbatterier kan textmatrisen utökas till ett bredare spektrum av testförhållanden, såsom temperatur, strömamplitud, arbetscykel och SoC-fönster. / The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to comply with the Paris Agreement has sparked an increased interest in electrification as a strategy to mitigate climate change. Li-ion batteries play a crucial role in electrification, and have emerged as the primary option for battery electric vehicles. However, their lifetime performance is a critical factor in determining their cost and environmental sustainability. Although fast charging presents a viable option for customers wishing to maximize operational time, charging at high currents accelerate aging through degradation of the electrode material and the electrolyte. Recent studies have found that pulse charging protocols can extend the cycle life of Li-ion batteries. In light of this, this study has been conducted to investigate the effects of pulse charging on the capacity retention and internal resistance of Li-ion batteries. Prismatic NMC Li-ion battery cells were cycled using the Positive Pulsed Current-Constant Voltage (PPC-CV) charging mode, and their performance has been compared to that of conventional Constant Current-Constant Voltage (CC-CV) charging. A novel method was developed and implemented to execute a pulse charging profile within a defined State-of-Charge (SoC) window. The test objects were continuously cycled over intervals of 4 weeks with interruptions for standardized Reference Performance Tests (RPTs) to calculate the stan- dard capacity and internal resistance. In addition, Incremental Capacity Analysis (ICA) and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) were performed to ex- tend the analysis. According to results, cells cycled using the PPC-CV mode show similar or slightly reduced capacity fade and a lower increase in internal resistance after roughly 700 equivalent cycles. The 0.01-Hz PPC-CV mode exhibited a capacity fade of 3.65%, the 1-Hz PPC-CV mode 3.75%, the 100-Hz PPC-CV mode 4.06% and the CC-CV mode 4.05%. Internal resistances remained lower than the beginning of life measurements in the PPC-CV test cases, while the CC-CV mode shows a quicker increase in internal resistance. However, the battery State-of-Health (SoH) had only reached 95% during this testing phase, requiring further study to draw definitive conclusions regarding the impact of pulse charging on battery life performance. To further understand the impact of pulsed charging modes on Li-ion battery life performance, the text matrix may be extended to incorporate a broader range of test conditions, such as temperature, current amplitude, duty cycle and State-of-Charge (SoC) window.

With the continuing transition to renewable inherently intermittent energy sources like solar- and wind power, electrical energy storage will become progressively more important to manage energy production and demand. A key technology in this area is Li-ion batteries. To operate these batteries efficiently, there is a need for monitoring of the current battery state, including parameters such as state of charge and state of health, to ensure that adequate safety and performance is maintained. Furthermore, such monitoring is a step towards the possibility of the optimization of battery usage such as to maximize battery lifetime and/or return on investment. Unfortunately, possible online measurements during actual operation of a lithium-ion battery are typically limited to current, voltage and possibly temperature, meaning that direct measurement of battery status is not feasible. To overcome this, battery modeling and various regression methods may be used. Several of the most common regression algorithms suggested for estimation of battery state of charge and state of health are based on Kalman filtering. While these methods have shown great promise, there currently exist no thorough analysis of the impact of so-called filter tuning on the effectiveness of these algorithms in Li-ion battery monitoring applications, particularly for state of health estimation. In addition, the effects of only adjusting the cell capacity model parameter for aging effects, a relatively common approach in the literature, on overall state of health estimation accuracy is also in need of investigation. In this work, two different Kalman filtering methods intended for state of charge estimation: the extended Kalman filter and the extended adaptive Kalman filter, as well as three intended for state of health estimation: the dual extended Kalman filer, the enhanced state vector extended Kalman filer, and the single weight dual extended Kalman filer, are compared from accuracy, performance, filter tuning and practical usability standpoints. All algorithms were used with the same simple one resistor-capacitor equivalent circuit battery model. The Li-ion battery data used for battery model development and simulations of filtering algorithm performance was the “Randomized Battery Usage Data Set” obtained from the NASA Prognostics Center of Excellence.  It is found that both state of charge estimators perform similarly in terms of accuracy of state of charge estimation with regards to reference values, easily outperforming the common Coulomb counting approach in terms of precision, robustness and flexibility. The adaptive filter, while computationally more demanding, required less tuning of filter parameters relative to the extended Kalman filter to achieve comparable performance and might therefore be advantageous from a robustness and usability perspective. Amongst the state of health estimators, the enhanced state vector approach was found to be most robust to initialization and was also least taxing computationally. The single weight filter could be made to achieve comparable results with careful, if time consuming, filter tuning. The full dual extended Kalman filter has the advantage of estimating not only the cell capacity but also the internal resistance parameters. This comes at the price of slow performance and time consuming filter tuning, involving 17 parameters. It is however shown that long-term state of health estimation is superior using this approach, likely due to the online adjustment of internal resistance parameters. This allows the dual extended Kalman filter to accurately estimate the SoH over a full test representing more than a full conventional battery lifetime. The viability of only adjusting the capacity in online monitoring approaches therefore appears questionable. Overall the importance of filter tuning is found to be substantial, especially for cases of very uncertain starting battery states and characteristics.

There is a need for alternative marine fuels and propulsion techniques in order to reduce the environmental and climate impacts of the transport sector, and meet the new Swedish climate targets of net zero emissions by 2045. There are several projects and studies on full electric ferries, while the option of hydrogen fuel cell-battery hybrids are not as well explored. This study assesses the prospects for three alternative fuels and propulsion techniques for a commuter ferry in Stockholm City. The fuels assessed are hydrogen (Fuel cellbattery hybrid/electric engine), electricity (Full battery/electric engine) and a biofuel (HVO/Internal combustion engine). Conventional diesel was included as benchmark. A multi-criteria decision analysis approach is employed in order to assess the fuel systems by estimated fuel performance and benchmarked input onthe relative criteria importance. The criteria cover economic, environmental, technical, and ultimately social aspects like availability and supply of fuel. The full battery solution was discarded due to excessive weight, but as only one charging solution was investigated it is recommended for further investigation. HVO performed best in an overall score comparing all fuel alternatives, but in a comparison between only fuel cell hybrid and HVO, including the availability criteria, the fuel cell hybrid system performed best. The analysis therefore supports the opportunity to implement fuel cell-battery hybrids onthis route. / Det finns ett behov av alternativa marina bränslen och framdrivningstekniker för att minska transportsektorns miljö- och klimatpåverkan, och för att uppfylla de nya svenska klimatmålen om att inte ha några nettoutsläpp till 2045. Det finns flera projekt och studier om fullt elektriska färjor, alternativet att använda bränslecellshybrider inte är däremot inte lika utforskat. Denna studie utvärderar möjligheterna för tre alternativa bränslen och framdrivningstekniker för implementering på Djurgårdsfärjan i Stockholm Stad. De utvärderade bränslena är vätgas (bränslecellshybrid / elmotor), elektricitet (full batterilösning / elmotor) och ett biobränsle (HVO / Förbränningsmotor). Konventionell diesel ingick som riktmärke för jämförelse. Analysen genomfördes för att bedöma och jämföra bränsleprestandan mellan de olika systemen. En beslutsgrundande multikriterieanalys (MKA) utfördes och jämfördes mot liknande studier där en analytisk hierarkisk process (AHP) utförts tillsammans med viktiga intressenter i den marina transportsektorn i Sverige. Kriterierna täcker ekonomiska, miljömässiga, tekniska och i slutändan sociala aspekter som tillgång till bränsle. Den fullständiga batterilösningen avfärdades på grund av för stor massa av energisystemet, men att eftersom endast ett laddningsalternativ undersöktes rekommenderas den för ytterligare analys. HVO presterade bäst i den övergripande poängen där alla bränslealternativ jämfördes. Hybridsystemet presterade dock bäst i en jämförelse mellan HVO och hybrid där kriterierna justerades till att inkludera tillgängligheten av bränslet. Resultatet visar att viktningen av den relativa betydelsen för de olika kriterierna har stor betydelse vid utvärdering av bränslealternativ. Analysen stöder därmed möjligheten att implementera bränslecellshybrid på denna linje.