Battery Systems Engineering

This reference covers battery systems engineering, an interdisciplinary field that has grown rapidly in recent years. It gathers the background, mathematical models, solution methods and systems theory needed to design advanced battery management systems. The material starts from basic electrochemistry and then moves into systems engineering, providing a foundation for modeling batteries in the design of electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

The book is written for systems engineers in chemical, mechanical, electrical and aerospace disciplines who want to understand batteries and use them well. Chemists, materials scientists and mathematical modelers are also shown how their work bears on battery management. Its chapters cover electrochemistry, governing equations, discretization methods, and system response and battery management systems.

To make the concepts concrete, the text includes tables, illustrations, photographs, graphs and worked examples, along with homework problems and references. It is aimed at practicing engineers in the mechanical, electrical and chemical fields, and at graduate students in those areas, as well as scientists and engineers working in the battery and electric vehicle industries.