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New HSE guidance for BESS
HSE BESS guidance. New guidance from the UK Health and Safety Executive. Very high level and thin on detail. However, it is the first time I have seen "Under the Dangerous Substances (Notification and Marking of Sites) Regulations, if you are an operator of a BESS...
Air Busan bans powerbanks in overhead lockers
Air Busan bans powerbanks in luggage in overhead lockers. Air Busan has banned the powerbanks following a fire that destroyed an aircraft on the runway at Hong Kong on 28 January this year. All on board were evacuated safely with no injuries. https://lnkd.in/e_6U5EsT
Amazing breakthrough in lithium-ion battery technology?
I am very excited by potential of the recent paper by I. T. Song et al., “Thermal runaway prevention through scalable fabrication of safety reinforced layer in practical Li-ion batteries”, Nature Communications, v15 (2024) 6806. It reports that a thin layer of a...
Estimating SoC, and hence SoH, in BESS is challenging
I have read a lot about data analytics (DA) and have had discussions with several DA companies. Experts in DA are really sceptical over the ability of BMS to measure (they tend to use the worrying word "estimate") State-of-Charge. Hitherto, I have not come across a...