1. A degradation-based sorting method for lithium-ion battery reuse.
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Chen, Hao and Shen, Julia
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LITHIUM-ion batteries , *ELECTRIC battery recycling , *RADIOGRAPHY , *ALGORITHMS , *ELECTRIC batteries - Abstract
In a world where millions of people are dependent on batteries to provide them with convenient and portable energy, battery recycling is of the utmost importance. In this paper, we developed a new method to sort 18650 Lithium-ion batteries in large quantities and in real time for harvesting used cells with enough capacity for battery reuse. Internal resistance and capacity tests were conducted as a basis for comparison with a novel degradation-based method based on X-ray radiographic scanning and digital image contrast computation. The test results indicate that the sorting accuracy of the test cells is about 79% and the execution time of our algorithm is at a level of 200 milliseconds, making our method a potential real-time solution for reusing the remaining capacity in good used cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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