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Battery Enclosure Thermal Runaway Equipment
Compliance
UL 2596
The Battery Enclosure Thermal Runaway Equipment is designed to evaluate the battery enclosure material performance in a simulated battery thermal runaway. It enables testing of the material with a sheet material instead of an entire battery assembly which can reduce development cost and time.
The UL 2596 Test Equipment consists of
Test chamber, made of structural steel, with an internal dimension of 100mm x 100mm x 89mm.
The top side of the chamber is open and the test sample is secured onto the open side during the test.
The midpoint of one side of the chamber is using a vent orifice to release pressure generated during the test.
A Type K 24AWG insulated thermocouple is used to measure the internal temperature of the test chamber.
A Type K 24AWG insulated thermocouple is used to measure the external temperature of the test sample.
A pressure transducer is used to measure the internal pressure of the test chamber.
Thermal runaway trigger device, heating up the initialing cells at the rate of 4~7 °C.
A PID temperature controller controls the heating of the film heater, the range of 0 to 1,000°C, with an accuracy of 0.1°C.
Two Type K 24AWG insulated thermocouples are used to measure the surface temperature of the initialing cells individually.
The temperature of the initialing cells are monitored during the test.
Data acquisition system, collects the temperature, pressure, and time at a rate of 10 samples per second.
Window based operation software, with the functions:
- Records the internal temperature of the test chamber.
- Records the external temperature of the test specimen.
- Records the surface temperature of the initialing cells.
- Records the pressure of the test chamber.
- Control the heating of flexible film heaters at a specific rate.
- Records the time, and generates the time-synchronized plots of temperature & pressure.
- Generates the maximum temperature & pressure.
- Report export and management.
