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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 381, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.120916
Keywords
Lithium-ion battery; toxicity evaluation; thermal hazards; heat release rate; quantitative assessment
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- National Science Foundation of China [51636008]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDB-SSW-JSC029]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2320000040]
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Toxic gases released from lithium-ion battery (LIB) fires pose a very large threat to human health, yet they are poorly studied, and the knowledge of LIB fire toxicity is limited. In this paper, the thermal and toxic hazards resulting from the thermally-induced failure of a 68 Ah pouch LIB are systematically investigated by means of the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and 1/2 ISO full scale test room. The LIBs with higher state of charge (SOC) are found to have greater fire risks in terms of their burning behavior, normalized heat release rate, and fire radiation, as well as the concentration of toxic gases. Specifically, the thermal hazards are evaluated by combining the effects of convective and radiative heat. The major toxic gases detected from the online analysis are CO, HF, SO2, NO2, NO and HCl. Furthermore, Fractional Effective Dose (FED) and Fractional Effective Concentration (FEC) models are used to quantitatively assess the overall gas toxicity. Results show that the effects of irritant gases are much more significant than those of asphyxiant gases. HF and SO2 have much greater toxicity than the other fire gases. The maximum FEC value is approaching the critical threshold in such fire scenarios.
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