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Current Advances in Fuel Cell and Batteries

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 June 2025 | Viewed by 2212

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Carla Menale

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National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy
Interests: batteries; energy storage; thermal management; hydrogen; fuel cells
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Dear Colleagues,

Due to environmental and geopolitical considerations, there has been a revived effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels for both electricity generation and transportation. The integration of renewable sources in the energy system is necessary to achieve the targets on greenhouse gas emissions set by the regulation. For this purpose, energy storage systems and energy vectors, such as batteries and hydrogen, became key technologies in this context. At the same time, in order to enable a reduction in emissions within the transport sector, the use of batteries and fuel cells represents the main solution to power zero-emissions vehicles.

Considering the above, we kindly invite experts in the field of “Current Advances in Fuel Cells and Batteries” to share with the scientific community their latest results in the form of original research papers and review papers. This Special Issue aims to provide an opportunity to gather the most recent advances in this field.

The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Laboratory implementation, tests, and validation methodologies of batteries and fuel cells;
  • Diagnosis and prognosis of batteries and fuel cells;
  • Battery and fuel cell degradation (state-of-health assessment, aging);
  • Modeling of fuel cells and batteries;
  • Analysis of fuel cell and battery performance using CFD simulation;
  • Study of new technologies for batteries and fuel cells;
  • Safety issues related to the use of fuel cells and batteries;
  • Battery and fuel cell thermal management studies;

Dr. Carla Menale
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • electrochemical energy storage
  • batteries
  • lithium-ion technology
  • fuel cells
  • advanced technologies
  • abuse tests
  • safety issues
  • modeling
  • experimental tests
  • fuel cell balance of plant
  • electrode materials

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Advancements on Lumped Modelling of Membrane Water Content for Real-Time Prognostics and Control of PEMFC
by Massimo Sicilia, Davide Cervone, Pierpaolo Polverino and Cesare Pianese
Energies 2024, 17(19), 4841; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17194841 - 27 Sep 2024
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PEMFCs play a key role in the energy transition scenarios thanks to the zero emissions, versatility, and power density. PEMFC performances are improved optimizing water management to ensure proper ion transport: it is well known that a well-balanced water content avoids either electrodes [...] Read more.
PEMFCs play a key role in the energy transition scenarios thanks to the zero emissions, versatility, and power density. PEMFC performances are improved optimizing water management to ensure proper ion transport: it is well known that a well-balanced water content avoids either electrodes flooding or membrane drying, causing gas starvation at the active sites or low proton conductivity, respectively. In this paper, an analytical formulation for water transport dynamics within the membrane, derived from membrane water balance, is proposed to overcome the limitations of PEM dynamics model largely adopted in the literature. The dynamics is simulated thanks to the introduction of a characteristic time with a closed analytical form, which is general and easily implementable for any application where both low computational time and high accuracy are required. Furthermore, the net water molar fluxes at the membrane boundaries can be easily computed as well for a cell’s simulation. The analytical formulation has a strong dependency on the operative conditions, as well as physical parameters of the membrane itself. From the proposed formulation, for a 200 µm membrane, the characteristic time can vary from 5 s up to 50 s; this example shows how control strategies must consider PEM dynamic behavior. Full article
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Performance of Protection Devices Integrated into Lithium-Ion Cells during Overcharge Abuse Test
by Carla Menale, Francesco Vitiello, Antonio Nicolò Mancino, Antonio Scotini, Livia Della Seta, Francesco Vellucci and Roberto Bubbico
Energies 2024, 17(19), 4785; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17194785 - 25 Sep 2024
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Lithium-ion batteries currently represent the most suitable technology for energy storage in various applications, such as hybrid and electric vehicles (HEVs and BEVs), portable electronics and energy storage systems. Their wide adoption in recent years is due to their characteristics of high energy [...] Read more.
Lithium-ion batteries currently represent the most suitable technology for energy storage in various applications, such as hybrid and electric vehicles (HEVs and BEVs), portable electronics and energy storage systems. Their wide adoption in recent years is due to their characteristics of high energy density, high power density and long life cycle. On the other hand, they still face challenges from a safety point of view for the possible faults that could generate several problems, ranging from simple malfunctioning to a dangerous thermal runaway. Overcharge is one of the most critical types of faults, and, depending on the level of abuse, it may trigger a thermal runaway. To prevent high levels of overcharge abuse, some cells include integrated protection devices that cut off the circuit when a critical condition is met. In this paper, the performance of these protection devices is evaluated to assess their effectiveness. The cells were tested at different ambient temperatures and current levels. In the worst-case scenarios, the maximum cell temperature slightly exceeded 70 °C and the State of Charge (SOC) reached a peak of 127% when the Current Interruption Device (CID) was activated. These conditions were not critical, so serious events such as thermal runaway were not triggered. These outcomes confirm the effectiveness of the CID, which always intervenes in maintaining a safe state. However, since it never intervened in the overcharge abuse tests, a specific set up was also used to investigate the operation of the other protection device, the Positive Temperature Coefficient. Full article
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