Second life batteries for future applications (Batt2TheFuture)

随着英国交通部门的脱碳，最早将于2030年从纯内燃机驱动的汽车转向纯电动或混合动力汽车。这将导致废旧电动汽车(EV)电池库存的指数增长，因为它们必须每7-10年更换一次。在这段时间之后，电动汽车电池仍可能保持高达80%的容量，这往往可以用于其他应用。我们的联盟正在开发一种快速自动化流程**Batt2TheFuture**，以实现对电池单元的快速分拣，以重建高质量和一致的第二代电池组。**Batt2TheFuture**是一个自动化流程，使用破坏性超声波技术、机器视觉和人工智能算法来检测和评级废电池。该过程检查电池组/模块中的每个电池，然后根据它们各自的健康状态(SOH)和充电状态(SOC)对它们进行评级。这种技术组合能够实现深度检查、提高电池评估的速度和处理能力的可扩展性--这些都是目前市场上的废电池检测解决方案所缺少的。根据评估结果，电池将被分类和翻新，为其第二次生命做好准备。然后，重新调整用途的电池组被部署到其电力需求与其SOH和SOC值一致的应用中。这将延长废电动汽车电池的生命周期，从而大幅减少电池浪费和电池的寿命成本。因此，**战地未来**将促进废电动汽车电池的全部价值的利用，并有助于确保运输部门的脱碳将不仅仅是将碳排放从车辆本身转移到电池原材料提取。

The decarbonisation of the transport sector in the UK, will see the migration from solely internal combustion powered vehicles to electric or hybrid vehicles only, as early as 2030\. This will result in the exponential growth of spent Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries stockpiled, as they must be replaced every 7-10 years. After this period, the EV batteries may still hold as much as 80% of their capacity, which often can be used in other applications. Our consortium is developing a fast automated process, **Batt2TheFuture** to enable fast sorting of battery cells to rebuild high quality and consistent second-generation battery packs.**Batt2TheFuture** is an automated process that uses disruptive ultrasound technology, machine vision and AI algorithms to inspect and grade spent battery cells. The process inspects each cell from a battery pack/module and then grades them according to their respective State of Health (SoH) and State of Charge (SoC). The technology combination enables in-depth inspection, increased speed of cell assessment and processing capacity scalability -- these have been missing in current spent battery inspection solutions on the market.Based on the results of the assessment, the cells are sorted and refurbished in preparation for their second-life . The repurposed battery packs are then deployed to applications whose power requirements align with their SoH and SoC values. This will extend the life cycle of the spent EV batteries, thereby drastically reducing battery waste and the lifetime cost of the battery.Therefore, **Batt2TheFuture** will facilitate the utilisation of the full value of spent EV batteries as well as contributing towards ensuring that the decarbonisation of the transport sector will not just be a transfer of carbon emissions from the vehicles themselves to battery raw material extraction.