In the automotive industry the clear trend towards electrification replaces traditional fuels with batteries for energy storage. Additionally, batteries are now more frequently used for storing energy on the grid and this becomes very necessary for renewable energy due to the cyclical nature of solar power. Batteries are also used in uninterrupted power supplies (UPS). These are used for personal computers, industrial plants or even hospitals to provide battery back up power in case the grid power goes out. And finally, consumer electronics are also very important consumer of lithium ion batteries. Designing a battery is often broken down into two components: Cell design where we are designing for mass manufacturability as well a battery pack design where we are basically trying to figure out how we are trying to pack a large number of cells whether in series or in parallel and also incorporate the thermal management to the battery. These two are very closely related to one another and will result into an operational battery system. These battery systems have many trade offs. We have to be able to look at how much energy they are able to store, the maximum power that batteries are able to discharge, the projected life span, how long it takes to charge them, as well as the cost of the battery. Other important factors are the balance of the battery system itself, temperature balance and of course the mass and the volume are going to be very important. In this workshop I am going to use the V-cycle which is often used in the automotive industry to illustrate the development cycle of the product. For this purpose, we are going to illustrate where GT as well as auto-lion can be effectively used in the development cycle.

Workshop syllabus include:

1. Introduction to GT-SUITE and AutoLion
2. Cell Design and modelling using AutoLion
3. Electro-thermal battery design using GT-SUITE
4. Electrochemical-thermal battery modeling using GT-SUITE and AutoLion-G

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