lithium-sulfur battery

Using the method of normalized galvanostatic curves, as well as taking into account the changes in the half-charge and half-discharge potentials of an electrode, the latter based on a sulfur composite with reduced graphene oxide, it was established that the main reason for electrode degradation during cycling was the loss of active material (due to the shuttle transfer of polysulfides and sulfur from the positive electrode to the negative lithium one).

To model the characteristics of lithium-sulfur batteries based on the experimental evaluation of the electrochemical properties of electrode materials, the software "Battery Designer", included in the software package “ElChemLab”, was developed. The possibilities of software are described. The specific energy of lithium-sulfur batteries is compared for different surface capacitances of a positive electrode and for different amounts of electrolyte.

The possibility of determining the charge state of lithium-sulfur batteries using the ANFIS model was estimated. Easily measurable in practice physical quantities were used as input parameters of the model. They are the battery voltage, the rate of its change and the number of previous cycles. The analysis of ANFIS models with various parameters (the number and type of membership functions) was carried out. It was shown that ANFIS is a model that makes it possible to estimate the charge state of a lithium-sulfur battery with the accuracy of more than 95%.