A group of European companies has produced the world’s first set of safety standards and tests for large-scale lithium-ion battery systems.
R&D organisation EnergyVille/VITO led the Stallion-project to address the need for safety standards on Li-ion stationary battery systems (SBS).
Stallion is the result of seven partners from five countries working together for three years. The consortium includes ABB (CH+SE), Dispatch Energy (DE), Umicore (BE), CEA (FR), EnergyVille/VITO (BE), DNV Kema (NL) and VDE (DE).
The Stallion-project developed tests and checks to ensure safety throughout the entire life of the battery, from the production over installation, exploitation to decommissioning and recycling.
The result is the very first comprehensive set of guidelines and standards in this field. It is hoped the guidelines will reassure companies producing and deploying batteries on a large scale that they are safe and dependable.
The guidelines include: setting up a system; analysing risks connected to large batteries; developing a toolkit of tests and guidelines on how they should be used; testing battery materials; looking into additional technology for monitoring batteries; creating a website for battery standards; and providing a handbook on safety for all stakeholders such as cities, system integrators and electricity network operators.
The results were presented on March 10 at the Energy Storage 2015 trade fair in Düsseldorf.
The Stallion project worked together with the European Stabalid project on the same topic.
EnergyVille unites the Flemish research institutes KU Leuven, VITO and imec for research on sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems.
