--- title: Batteries & Energy Storage description: Batteries power the energy transition. You will learn electrochemistry of lithium-ion and emerging cells, battery management systems, degradation, manufacturing and grid-scale storage economics. category: engineering subcategory: electrical-and-computer-engineering difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/batteries-and-energy-storage --- # Batteries & Energy Storage Batteries power the energy transition. You will learn electrochemistry of lithium-ion and emerging cells, battery management systems, degradation, manufacturing and grid-scale storage economics. ## Available Resources 1 Books • 2 Courses • 1 Websites • 2 Papers ## Courses ### 1. Ania's Battery Management Systems (BMS) Course **Author:** Ania Mitros Free video lectures with slides from an engineer who took Tesla Model 3 BMS silicon to production, covering the hardware side algorithm courses skip: measurement accuracy budgets, temperature sensing, balancing current, safety and reliability. Aimed at engineers who must specify real BMS hardware. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ofb.net/~ania/Anias-BMS-Course/ **Tags:** battery management systems, bms hardware, lithium-ion, cell balancing, electronics design ### 2. ECE5720: Battery Management and Control - Full Lecture Notes and Recordings **Author:** Gregory L. Plett Gregory Plett's complete graduate battery-management course, given away as PDF notes and recorded lectures: BMS requirements, equivalent-circuit and physics-based cell models, pack simulation, Kalman and sigma-point state-of-charge estimation, health estimation, balancing and power-limit algorithms. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5720/index.html **Tags:** battery management systems, state of charge estimation, kalman filter, equivalent circuit models, battery packs ## Websites ### 1. PyBaMM - Python Battery Mathematical Modelling Documentation for the open-source Python package used across battery academia and industry to solve physics-based lithium-ion models - SPM, SPMe and Doyle-Fuller-Newman - with published parameter sets, thermal and degradation submodels, and Colab notebooks running from a first simulation to custom models. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://docs.pybamm.org/ **Tags:** battery modeling, lithium-ion, python, doyle-fuller-newman, electrochemical simulation, open source ## Youtubes ### 1. Why Do Li-ion Batteries Die, and Can They Be Immortal? - Jeff Dahn (WIN Seminar) **Author:** Jeff Dahn Dalhousie's Jeff Dahn walks a general audience through why lithium-ion cells lose capacity: parasitic reactions between electrode and electrolyte consuming lithium, why voltages above roughly 4V accelerate them, and how electrolyte additives and high-precision coulometry measure and extend cell life. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qi03QawZEk **Tags:** lithium-ion, battery degradation, electrolyte additives, coulombic efficiency, battery lifetime ## Papers ### 1. Lithium Ion Battery Degradation: What You Need to Know **Author:** Jacqueline S. Edge, Simon O'Kane, Ryan Prosser, Niall D. Kirkaldy, Anisha N. Patel et al. Open-access review separating lithium-ion degradation into five principal and thirteen secondary mechanisms, the observable cell-level modes they produce, and the resulting capacity and power fade, plus the diagnostics and computational models used to track each and how they couple. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/publication/32e02079-37e8-4b30-9631-3d1cb193a4c8 **Tags:** lithium-ion, battery degradation, capacity fade, degradation mechanisms, review paper ### 2. The Future of Energy Storage: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study **Author:** MIT Energy Initiative MIT Energy Initiative's three-year, roughly 400-page study of grid storage: where lithium-ion costs stop working, what long-duration alternatives cost, how storage competes with transmission and demand flexibility, and which market and policy designs make deployment pay. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-of-energy-storage/ **Tags:** energy storage, grid storage, long-duration storage, electricity markets, energy policy ## Books ### 1. Linden's Handbook of Batteries, Fifth Edition **Author:** Kirby W. Beard The standard engineering reference on battery technology: electrochemical principles, every major primary and secondary chemistry, lithium-ion materials and cell design, manufacturing, failure analysis and renewable-energy applications. A lookup source for real specifications and design constraints, not a cover-to-cover read. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1260115925?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** batteries, electrochemistry, battery chemistries, cell design, engineering reference --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/batteries-and-energy-storage