PROG-EES

Electrochemical energy system (EES) is a joint label for electrochemical storage devices (i.e., batteries) and electrochemical conversion devices (i.e., fuel cells, electrolyzers). EESs are the key components in a range of priority areas like clean and efficient energy, green transport, smart buildings and many more segments of everyday life. Enormous effort across many disciplines, particularly in the development of new materials has been aimed to reach higher storage capacity, efficiency, reliability and longevity of EESs. Despite the progress, degradation phenomena still significantly affect EES safety and reduce the overall exploitation efficiency.

The aim of this project is the development of online, accurate and computationally efficient prognostics and health management (PHM) approaches thus ensuring reliable EES operation. Such approaches provide information about the current condition indices and their degradation rate, which in the context of EES are referred to as State-Of-Health (SOH) and remaining useful life (RUL). These approaches are the heart of so-called PHM systems, which perform data acquisition and execute the PHM methods. PHM systems provide the end-user or the high-level control system with information required for conducting actions that mitigate the degradation effects. In particular, the PROG-EES project addresses the PHM issues for Lithium-based batteries and PEM fuel cells. Although these two EESs belong to two different groups, from the data analysis standpoint, they can be treated in a similar manner, thus justifying the joint study of both EES types within the same project.