MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of an Accelerating Rate Calorimeter System for Multidisciplinary Research, Education and Outreach

MRI：轨道 1 采购加速量热计系统，用于多学科研究、教育和推广

• 批准号: 2320171
• 负责人: Lei Chen
• 金额: $ 43.24万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Dearborn
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2320171&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Track; Acquisition; Accelerating; Rate

The project establishes a new experimental facility at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. The main element of the facility, the accelerating rate calorimeter (ARC), will enable new opportunities to conduct research, education, and outreach in the area of management of thermal behavior of automotive batteries at the participating universities. The thermal behavior is a significant concern for the ongoing transition of the automotive technology to electric vehicles. The problems of degradation of battery’s performance at low and high temperatures, the danger of battery thermal runaway, overheating of fast chargers, etc. continue to be major challenges. The universities participating in the project are major feeders of engineering workforce and hubs of fundamental and applied research for the automotive industry in the Southeast Michigan, which includes the Big Three automakers and many of their suppliers. The new facility will stimulate growth of research in the area of vehicle electrification and battery technology. The facility will be incorporated in instruction of at least ten graduate and undergraduate courses, thus helping to build skills of future engineers, who will lead the nation’s transition to electric mobility. Expanded research opportunities for students will be created. The facility will also enable outreach activities to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the Detroit area to inspire STEM interest in K-12 students.The proposed ARC system is an effective tool to quantify features of thermal behavior, such as temporospatial temperature, reaction onset temperature, heat capacity, heat release rate, pressure rise rate, and gas generated under regular and extreme conditions. It will create new knowledge in numerous interdisciplinary areas, including battery degradation and safety, battery material development and testing, battery health monitoring, chemical gas sensing, CO2 adsorption, power electronics, and grid applications. The ARC system will enable exploration of exothermic runaway reactions from hazardous and reactive chemicals at a laboratory scale by simulating abusive extreme conditions such as nail penetration, crushing, overcharging, external short circuit, etc. The sealed chambers of the ARC will guarantee safe operation. A major advantage of the ARC in comparison with typical isothermal calorimeters is its smaller response time. This will allow us to measure very small heat releases and, as an example, quantify runaway explosive decompositions for a wide range of materials and devices, such as batteries, power electronics, and chemical materials. Acquisition of the proposed ARC system will enable more than 20 faculty at the University of Michigan - Dearborn and neighboring universities, all located in the Southeast Michigan, to conduct new research activities. The proposed instrument will also support interdisciplinary research collaboration among the participating universities and between the universities and industries, such as Ford Motor, GM, and Stellantis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目在密歇根大学 - 迪尔伯恩大学建立了新的实验设施。该设施的主要要素，即加速度量热计（ARC），将为参与大学的汽车电池热行为管理领域进行研究，教育和外展的新机会。热行为是汽车技术向电动汽车持续过渡的重要问题。电池在低温和高温下降解的问题，电池热失控的危险，快速充电的过热等等。参与该项目的大学是工程劳动力的主要工作人员，以及密歇根州东南部汽车行业的基本和应用研究的枢纽，其中包括三大汽车制造商及其许多供应商。新设施将刺激汽车电气化和电池技术领域的研究的增长。该设施将在至少十个研究生和本科课程的指示中纳入其中，从而有助于建立未来工程师的技能，他们将领导该国向电动行动的过渡。将为学生提供扩大的研究机会。该设施还将使外展活动能够促进底特律地区的多样性，公平性和包容性，以激发对K-12学生的STEM兴趣。拟议的ARC系统是量化热行为特征的有效工具，例如温度空间温度，反应开始温度，热量，热量，热量，热量释放速度，压力上升速度，正常情况和极端条件下的气体产生。它将在众多跨学科领域创建新知识，包括电池降解和安全性，电池材料开发和测试，电池健康监测，化学气体传感，CO2吸附，电力电子和电网应用。 ARC系统将通过模拟缺乏的极端条件（例如指甲穿透，压碎，过度充电，外部短路等）来探索实验室尺度上有害和反应性化学物质的放热失控反应。ARC的密封室将保证安全操作。与典型的等温热量表相比，弧的主要优势是其较小的响应时间。这将使我们能够测量非常小的热量释放，例如，为各种材料和设备（例如电池，电力电子设备和化学材料）量化了失控的爆炸性分解。收购拟议的ARC系统将在密歇根大学（Dearborn and Neighly University of Michigan of Michigan）中有20多名教师，以开展新的研究活动。拟议的工具还将支持参与大学之间以及大学与行业之间的跨学科研究合作，例如福特汽车，通用汽车和斯泰兰蒂斯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估通过评估而被认为是宝贵的。