Water-gas composite lithium ion battery fire control method
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of lithium ion battery fire suppression in the technical field of safety, and particularly relates to a water-gas composite lithium ion battery fire control method.
Background
In recent years, lithium ion batteries have been widely used in the fields of energy storage power stations, consumer electronics, new energy vehicles, and the like because of their advantages of high energy density, long cycle life, environmental friendliness, and small self-discharge. At present, the conservation quantity of lithium ion batteries and lithium electric vehicles in China shows a trend of increasing year by year, and the status of the lithium ion batteries as the post industry of the new energy industry cannot swing within a period of time in the future. However, lithium ion batteries are very dangerous in some abuse situations and are prone to fire and explosion. Because the battery is closely arranged in the battery pack, after a single battery is out of control due to heat, if the single battery cannot effectively extinguish the fire and cool down in time, the fire of the lithium battery can be rapidly developed, the thermal out-of-control chain reaction of the whole battery pack is caused, and then large-scale fire or explosion accidents occur, and huge economic loss or even casualties are caused. Therefore, the development of a fire extinguishing method capable of effectively extinguishing the battery fire and inhibiting the thermal runaway propagation of the lithium battery has important significance.
At present, the fire-fighting technology suitable for lithium ion battery fire is few, and the existing fire-fighting method has poor effect and has great defects and shortcomings. The existing lithium battery fire extinguishing method mainly adopts single gas fire extinguishing, such as fire extinguishing agents of heptafluoropropane and perfluorohexanone. They can capture free radicals in combustion, block chain reaction and quickly extinguish open fire, but their cooling capacity is very limited and cannot reduce the internal temperature of the battery. Although there is no open fire outside, the reaction inside the battery is still in progress, and the surface temperature of the battery is still very high, which may continue to transfer heat to the adjacent battery, induce thermal runaway of the adjacent battery, cause thermal runaway chain reaction of the battery pack, and fail to effectively control the lithium battery fire. The water mist has the advantages of environmental protection, low water consumption, less harm to protected objects, strong cooling capacity and the like, and can be used for extinguishing lithium ion battery fire. The fine water mist has smaller particles, so that the surface area of the fine water mist is greatly increased compared with that of water with the same volume, thereby enhancing the heat exchange efficiency and playing a good cooling effect. But the smaller particles also make it difficult for the droplets to penetrate the smoke and plume buoyancy to reach the cell surface. Therefore, the single use of the water mist can hardly achieve good effect on extinguishing the battery fire. Studies of plum-Uygur autonomous region and the like show that the spraying intensity of the water mist is 2.5L/(min m)2) And the fire disaster of 18650 type lithium cobalt oxide lithium ion batteries cannot be effectively suppressed or extinguished under the condition that the height of the spray head is 2.4 m.
The invention provides a more efficient fire extinguishing method aiming at the characteristics of lithium ion battery fires, namely the fire extinguishing method has the functions of quickly extinguishing fire and cooling, can quickly extinguish open fire, prevent flame from spreading, can reduce the temperature of a battery, prevent the occurrence of thermal runaway chain reaction in a battery pack, realize quick action at the initial stage of the lithium ion battery fire and prevent the further damage of the battery fire.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a water-gas composite lithium ion battery fire control method, which complements the advantages of a gas fire extinguishing agent and a water mist fire extinguishing agent, provides a fire extinguishing method with the functions of quick fire extinguishing and cooling, and overcomes the defects of the existing battery fire extinguishing technology. The battery fire is controlled within a controllable range, the battery fire is prevented from further spreading, the personnel and property loss is reduced, and the safety of the battery pack is improved.
In order to solve the above problems and achieve the above object, the present invention has the technical solution: a fire control method for a water-gas composite lithium ion battery. The method mainly comprises two parts, namely extinguishing open fire by using a gas extinguishing agent and cooling by using water mist: the gas extinguishing agent responds immediately after the lithium ion battery is out of control due to heat, so that open fire is efficiently extinguished, meanwhile, the thermal buoyancy generated by flame is weakened, and the smoke concentration is reduced; when the open fire disappears and the smoke concentration is reduced, the water mist is released, the water mist particles can more easily reach the surface of the lithium ion battery, the surface temperature of the lithium ion battery is reduced, and the battery is cooled, so that the battery pack is prevented from chain thermal runaway.
Further, the gas extinguishing agent responds when the lithium battery is out of control due to heat; the gas fire extinguishing agent has the characteristics of suffocation, chemical inhibition and the like, can quickly extinguish an open fire, reduce the smoke concentration, weaken the buoyancy generated by fire plumes after the open fire disappears, and simultaneously reduce the reaction rate in the battery.
Furthermore, the gas fire extinguishing agent adopts a fire extinguishing agent capable of quickly extinguishing open fire, such as heptafluoropropane and perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agents, which can capture free radicals in combustion, block chain reaction, quickly extinguish open fire, are non-conductive, cannot cause electrical fire and have a good inhibiting effect on battery fire; or carbon dioxide extinguishing agent with suffocation and oxygen isolation functions is selected. The fire extinguishing agents can quickly extinguish the open fire of the lithium ion battery, and keep proper fire extinguishing concentration in the ring to prevent the battery from reigniting.
Further, the gas fire extinguishing agent is stored in a storage tank and is sprayed out through an atomizing spray head under the drive of pressure, and for the perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agent, nitrogen is selected for driving, and according to NFP2001 standard, nitrogen with the pressure of 2.0-3.0 MPa can be filled according to different working conditions. The shower nozzle is arranged inside the battery module, and the damage of flame to the shower nozzle is reduced to the battery relief valve top to one side. The dosage of the fire extinguishing agent is different according to different working conditions, so that open fire can be extinguished.
Because the latent heat of evaporation of water is large, the fine water mist particles are small, the particle size is 10-200 mu m, the heat exchange capacity is strong, the cooling effect is very good, an electrical fire cannot be caused, and the battery can be rapidly cooled when the fine water mist is sprayed on the surface of the battery.
Further, the fine water mist particles are difficult to reach the surface of the battery due to the influence of buoyancy of the plume because the fine water mist particles are small. After the gas extinguishing agent is released, open fire is extinguished, the thermal buoyancy is weakened, and meanwhile, the perfluorohexanone has the capacity of reducing the smoke concentration, so that fine water mist particles can reach the surface of the battery, the temperature of the battery is reduced, and the propagation of thermal runaway of the battery is hindered.
Furthermore, the water mist device can be a bottle group type or a pump group type, the bottle group type is adopted in the invention, nitrogen is selected for driving, the nitrogen is sprayed out through the water mist spray head, the spray head is arranged in the battery module, the battery safety valve is obliquely arranged above the water mist spray head, the spray head has a larger mist cone angle, and all single batteries in the battery pack can be covered after the water mist is sprayed out. The amount of water and the spraying strength are different according to different working conditions, so that the battery can be cooled, and the battery pack is prevented from chain thermal runaway.
Furthermore, the gas fire extinguishing agent responds immediately after the single battery is ignited, so that open fire is extinguished, and the smoke concentration is reduced. After the fire extinguishing concentration in the battery module is reached, the battery is ensured not to be re-ignited, and the release of the gas fire extinguishing agent is stopped. And then immediately releasing water mist to cool the battery pack and prevent thermal runaway chain reaction in the battery pack.
The invention has the advantages that:
1. the method adopts the compounding of the gaseous extinguishing agent and the fine water mist, so that the advantages of the gaseous extinguishing agent and the fine water mist are complementary, the defect of using a single extinguishing agent is overcome, and the method has the functions of high-efficiency fire extinguishing and cooling;
2. the method uses the gas extinguishing agent to quickly extinguish open fire, prevent flame from spreading, reduce smoke concentration and thermal buoyancy and provide convenience for subsequent cooling; 3. the method adopts the fine water mist to cool the battery, the fine water mist has small particle size, strong heat exchange capability and small influence on the battery, and can take away a large amount of heat generated by thermal runaway of the battery, thereby preventing the battery pack from generating chain thermal runaway.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a diagram of a lithium ion battery water-gas composite fire extinguishing device;
FIG. 2 is a layout diagram of a lithium ion battery;
FIG. 3 is a graph of surface temperature and voltage of a battery over time for a blank combustion test;
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the surface temperature and voltage of a battery in a water-gas composite fire extinguishing experiment as a function of time;
fig. 5 is a diagram of thermal runaway mass loss of a battery.
Description of the major element numbers:
1: test cavity
2: test unit
3: fire extinguishing storage tank
4: electromagnetic valve
5: conveying pipeline
6: spray head
7: clamp apparatus
8: heat insulation cotton
9: heating plate
10: lithium ion battery
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.
The method mainly comprises two parts, namely extinguishing open fire by a gas extinguishing agent and cooling by water mist.
The main implementation process of the fire extinguishing method is as follows:
as shown in fig. 1 and 2, a heating sheet 9 is used as a heat source to induce thermal runaway of a lithium ion battery 10, the periphery of the lithium ion battery is wrapped by heat insulation cotton to simulate a scene that the batteries in a module are close to each other and heat dissipation is difficult, the batteries are fixed by a clamp 7, and the heat insulation cotton 8, the heating sheet 9 and the batteries are bound together to prevent the batteries from bulging. After lithium ion battery 10 takes place the thermal runaway back, the relief valve department spouts the running fire, and gaseous extinguishing agent solenoid valve 4 starts, and the extinguishing agent in the storage tank 3 that puts out a fire is by pressure drive, along conveying line 5, sprays on the battery through shower nozzle 6, extinguishes open fire fast. The gas fire extinguishing agent adopts a fire extinguishing agent capable of extinguishing open fire quickly, the perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agent is used in the method, free radicals in combustion can be captured, chain reaction is blocked, open fire can be extinguished quickly, the gas fire extinguishing agent is non-conductive, electric fire can not be caused, a good inhibiting effect on battery fire can be achieved, and meanwhile, the perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agent can reduce smoke concentration. After the open fire disappears, the gaseous extinguishing agent continues to be released for a period of time, so that the gaseous extinguishing agent in the environment in the module reaches the extinguishing concentration, and the battery cannot be re-ignited. And then closing the electromagnetic valve of the gas fire extinguishing agent, opening a water mist battery valve, and spraying the water mist on the battery through a spray head along a conveying pipeline under the high-pressure driving of nitrogen. At the moment, the smoke concentration is low, open fire does not exist, the thermal buoyancy is low, and the fine water mist particles are easy to attach to the surface of the battery. The fine water mist particles are small, the heat exchange capacity is high, the cooling effect is good, an electrical fire cannot be caused, the batteries can be rapidly cooled when the fine water mist particles are sprayed on the surfaces of the batteries, the temperature of the batteries is reduced, the heat transfer between adjacent batteries is hindered, and the battery pack is prevented from chain thermal runaway reaction. The water consumption and the spraying strength are different according to different working conditions.
To verify the effectiveness of the water-gas recombination lithium ion thermal runaway fire extinguishing method, an analysis is performed below by means of a simulation example.
The first embodiment is as follows:
a water-gas composite fire extinguishing experiment is carried out on the lithium iron phosphate lithium ion battery with the nominal capacity of 243Ah, and a blank experiment of complete combustion and a fire extinguishing experiment of water-gas composite are designed for comparative analysis in order to verify the effect of the water-gas composite fire extinguishing method. Before the start of the experiment, the sample cell was cycled three times at 0.1C rate before being charged to 100% SOC at 0.1C rate. Then, the heating plate was arranged in the manner shown in FIG. two, and 500W was used to induce thermal runaway. The blank combustion test does not release the fire extinguishing agent, and the water-gas composite fire extinguishing test releases 2 minutes of perfluorohexanone (2L) after thermal runaway, extinguishes open fire and reduces smoke concentration. Then the electromagnetic valve of the gas fire extinguishing agent is closed, and the water mist (1.3L) is released for 2 minutes to cool the battery. The temperature and mass changes of the two sets of experiments were compared.
As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the water-gas composite fire extinguishing experiment can quickly extinguish the battery fire and reduce the surface temperature of the battery. When the fire extinguishing agent is not applied, the temperature of the battery is continuously increased after thermal runaway, wherein the temperature of the side surface is the highest and reaches 525.5 ℃, and the maximum temperatures of the upper part of the front surface of the battery and the anode are 490 ℃ and 485 ℃ respectively. After the perfluorohexanone is released, the open fire is extinguished, but the reaction inside the battery is violent, a large amount of heat is released, and the temperature continues to rise. And then releasing the fine water mist, and cooling the battery after the fine water mist is released, but because the battery capacity is large, the thermal runaway reaction is severe, and the heat released by the battery is larger than the heat taken away by the fine water mist, the temperature of the battery is still increased. However, the reaction rate is effectively slowed down by the fine water mist, the surface temperature of the battery is reduced to different degrees, and the maximum temperature of the battery anode is reduced by 205.3 ℃. Other measuring points are wrapped by heat insulation cotton, so that heat dissipation is difficult, but the maximum temperatures above the front surface and in the center of the side surface are respectively reduced by 106.8 ℃ and 68 ℃ under the cooling of water mist. If the water quantity is increased, the cooling effect is better.
As shown in fig. 5, for the blank burning test, the mass was significantly decreased when the safety valve was opened, and then the mass was stably decreased at a slower rate, and when the thermal runaway occurred in the battery, the mass decrease rate was increased until the thermal runaway was terminated, and the mass was stable. During the experiment, the cell lost 1136g of mass altogether. When the water-gas composite fire extinguishing is carried out, after the perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing agent is applied, although open fire is extinguished, the internal temperature of the battery is still high, the reaction is still carried out, and the quality reduction rate is still high. And after the water mist is released, the battery quality reduction rate is obviously reduced, and the internal reaction of the battery is slowed down because the water mist cools the surface of the battery. The final cell had a total loss of 955g, 181g less than complete combustion.
In conclusion, the water-gas composite fire extinguishing method combining the gas fire extinguishing agent and the water mist can effectively extinguish the lithium ion battery fire, reduce the surface temperature of the battery, inhibit the reaction in the battery, effectively inhibit the heat transfer among the batteries and prevent the thermal runaway propagation, thereby improving the safety of the battery pack.
The present embodiments are illustrative only, and do not limit the scope of the invention, and modifications and variations that may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the invention are to be considered as within the scope of the invention.