Patent Application
20230231267
The present disclosure claims the priority to Chinese patent application No. 202220160020.5 titled “BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY CLUSTER, FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND ENCLOSED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM”, filed with the China National Intellectual Property Administration on Jan. 20, 2022, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage, and in particular to a battery module, a battery cluster, fire-fighting equipment and an enclosed energy storage system.
An energy storage system is composed of many energy storage batteries. After single energy storage electric cores are connected in series and in parallel to form an energy storage battery module, the energy storage battery modules are fitted on an energy storage battery rack to form a battery cluster, and the battery clusters are connected in parallel to form a battery energy storage system. During the charging and discharging, thermal runaway may occurs in the battery due to its own chemical reaction or external influence, which seriously affects the safety of the energy storage system. Therefore, fire-fighting is an important safety issue in the field of battery energy storage systems.
At present, a fire-fighting system used in the field is mainly designed for integrated fire-fighting: that is, when the preset fire-fighting conditions are met, the fire-fighting system can perform indiscriminate fire-fighting measures for the whole battery energy storage system to ensure fire-fighting safety, which greatly wastes the fire-fighting resources, causes the battery modules without faults to be polluted or even damaged by fire-fighting means (such as battery failure caused by water fire-fighting); in addition, the integrated fire-fighting is less targeted, and the intensity of fire-fighting for the parts that really need to take fire-fighting measures is insufficient, which has hidden dangers of failure or reburning.
A main object according to the present disclosure is to provide a battery module, so as to perform targeted fire-extinguishing on the battery module and improve the fire-extinguishing efficiency.
In order to solve the above object, a battery module is provided according to the present disclosure, which includes:
a case, including a top cover and a case body, in which the top cover is connected with the case body to form an accommodating cavity;
multiple electric cores, which are spaced apart in the accommodating cavity; and
a fire-fighting spray nozzle, which is fitted on the case and is configured to spray fire-fighting agent to the multiple electric cores.
In an embodiment, each electric core includes an explosion-proof valve, the explosion-proof valve is arranged toward the top cover, and the fire-fighting spray nozzle is fitted on the top cover to align the fire-fighting spray nozzle with the explosion-proof valve.
In an embodiment, the case body is enclosed by a front panel, a rear panel and side plates, and at least one of the front panel and the rear panel is fitted with the fire-fighting spray nozzle.
In an embodiment, a plug is plugged at the fire-fighting spray nozzle, and the plug is made of low-melting-point heat-sensitive material.
A battery cluster is further provided according to the present disclosure, which includes a battery rack and multiple battery modules as described above, the battery rack is formed with multiple fitting cavities, and each fitting cavity is configured to fix one battery module.
Fire-fighting equipment is further provided according to the present disclosure, for fire-fighting of the battery cluster as described above, and the fire-fighting equipment includes a fire-fighting pipeline, a fire-fighting device and a controller;
the fire-fighting pipeline is configured to be fitted on the battery rack of the battery cluster and is connected with the fire-fighting spray nozzle of the battery cluster;
the fire-fighting device includes a fire-fighting agent storage module and a detection module, the fire-fighting agent storage module is in communication with the fire-fighting pipeline, and the detection module is fitted on the fire-fighting pipeline and is configured to detect whether an abnormality occurs in the fire-fighting pipeline;
the controller is configured to control the fire-fighting agent storage module to release the fire-fighting agent in case that the detection module detects that an abnormality occurs in the fire-fighting pipeline.
In an embodiment, the detection module is a pressure sensor;
and/or, the detection module is a flow sensor.
In an embodiment, the fire-fighting pipeline includes a trunk pipeline and multiple sub-pipelines, the trunk pipeline and multiple sub-pipelines is in communication with the multiple sub-pipelines; the trunk pipeline is fixedly connected with the fire-fighting agent storage module, the multiple sub-pipelines are arranged along the battery rack and are fixedly connected with each fire-fighting spray nozzle, and a branch pipeline is connected between the corresponding sub-pipeline and each fire-fighting spray nozzle.
In an embodiment, the fire-fighting agent storage module includes a gas fire-extinguishing agent bottle, a reburning inhibitor bottle and an electromagnetic valve group, and the controller controls the gas fire-extinguishing agent bottle to release gas fire-extinguishing agent and controls the reburning inhibitor bottle to release inhibitor by the electromagnetic valve group.
In an embodiment, the electromagnetic valve group includes a first electromagnetic valve and a second electromagnetic valve, one end of the first electromagnetic valve is in communication with the gas fire-extinguishing agent bottle, the other end of the first electromagnetic valve is in communication with the fire-fighting pipeline, one end of the second electromagnetic valve is in communication with the reburning inhibitor bottle, and the other end of the second electromagnetic valve is in communication with the fire-fighting pipeline.
In an embodiment, the fire-fighting equipment further includes multiple real-time monitoring devices and switch boxes, the multiple real-time monitoring devices are configured to monitor indexes of the battery modules in the battery cluster and transmit corresponding fire-fighting information, each real-time monitoring device includes a monitoring module and an information processing feedback module, the monitoring module is fitted on the battery module, and the information processing feedback module transmits a received signal to a battery management system in the switch box.
An enclosed energy storage system is further provided according to the present disclosure, which includes the battery cluster as described above and the fire-fighting equipment as described above.
The fire-fighting spray nozzle is fitted on the battery module in the technical solution of the present disclosure, so that the fire-fighting agent can be sprayed on the corresponding battery module through the fire-fighting spray nozzle, which improves the fire-extinguishing efficiency, avoids the spread of fire, and avoids the damage of the battery module in the normal state caused by indiscriminate spraying , that is, reduces the use of fire-extinguishing agent while improves the fire-extinguishing efficiency and reduces potential safety hazards.
For more clearly illustrating the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or the conventional technology, drawings referred to for describing the embodiments or the conventional technology will be briefly described hereinafter. Apparently, drawings in the following description are only some examples of the present disclosure, and for the person skilled in the art, other drawings may be obtained based on the provided drawings without any creative efforts.
Reference numerals in the drawings are as follows:
The realization of the objects, functional characteristics and advantages of the present disclosure will be further described in conjunction with the embodiments and with reference to the drawings.
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be described clearly and completely as follows in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. It is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments according to the present disclosure, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those having ordinary skill in the art without creative work shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be pointed out that, terms “connect” and “fix” should be understood broadly, unless otherwise specifically defined. For example, it can be fixedly connected or detachably connected or integrally connected; it can be mechanically connected or electrically connected; it can be directly connected or indirectly connected through intermediate media, or inner parts of two components are in communication with each other, or the interaction between the two components, unless otherwise explicitly defined. For those skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the present disclosure may be understood in the light of specific circumstances.
In addition, the descriptions of “first” and “second” in the present disclosure are only used for descriptive purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying their relative importance, or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Therefore, the features defined with “first” and “second” can include at least one of the features explicitly or implicitly. In addition, the technical solutions between the various embodiments can be combined with each other, but they must be based on the realization by a person skilled in the art. When the combination of technical solutions is contradictory or cannot be realized, it should be considered that such a combination of technical solutions does not exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
A battery module 10 is provided according to the present disclosure.
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The fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 is fitted on the battery module 10 in the technical solution of the present disclosure, so that the fire-fighting agent can be sprayed on the corresponding battery module 10 through the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, which improves the fire-extinguishing efficiency, avoids the spread of fire, and avoids the damage of the battery module 10 in the normal state caused by indiscriminate spraying , that is, reduces the use of fire-extinguishing agent while improves the fire-extinguishing efficiency and reduces potential safety hazards.
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In another embodiment, both the front panel 12 and the rear panel 13 are fitted with the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, which further accelerates the speed of the fire-fighting agent covering the electric cores 104 and improves the fire-extinguishing efficiency.
The battery module 10 according to the present disclosure is provided with a temperature control device, the temperature control device is an air-cooling device 103, in which the side plate 14 is provided with a heat dissipation port 14a. It can be understood that the electric cores 104 work and dissipate heat as the battery module 10 is in operation, so that the temperature in the case body 101b rises, and the air-cooling device cooperates with the heat dissipation port 104a to exchange the hot airflow in the battery module 10, that is, to discharge the airflow with the relatively high temperature from the case body 101b and reduce the temperature in the battery module 10. In case that the electric core 104 with thermal runaway appears in the battery module 10, taking the case that the air-cooling device 103 fitted on the front panel 12 and the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 fitted on the rear panel 13 as an example, the air-cooling device 103 is oppositely arranged with the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, that is, the air-cooling device 103 works normally so as to enable a flow direction of the fire-fighting agent to be consistent with an air direction, so that the fire-fighting agent can quickly cover the electric cores 104, which further accelerates the speed of the fire-fighting agent covering the electric cores 104, reduces the accumulation and spread of heat, and thus avoids the spread of the thermal runaway. Certainly, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In other embodiments, the temperature control device is a water-cooling device.
Specifically, the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 is plugged by a plug, in an embodiment, the plug is covered outside the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 is plugged by the plug, and the plug is made of low-melting-point heat-sensitive material. In another embodiment, a plug is filled inside the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, and the plug is made of low-melting-point heat-sensitive material. In case that the thermal runaway occurs in the electric core 104 in the battery module 10, the plug fitted in the battery module 10 is easy to open the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 due to high temperature melting deformation, so that the fire-fighting agent can be sprayed out of the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102, and then performs targeted fire-extinguishing to the battery module 10, which can lower the use rate of the fire-fighting agent while the fire-extinguishing efficiency is improved, and avoid the failure of the device that controls the plug, resulting in the fire spray nozzle 102 of failing to spray the fire-fighting agent and affecting the fire-fighting efficiency. Specifically, the deformation includes at least one of melting, softening or embrittlement, and the heat-sensitive material can be any of fusible alloy, memory alloy, thermoplastic resin, etc., so as to select the appropriate type of the heat-sensitive material according to the different needs of specific disclosure scenarios.
A battery cluster 20 is further provided according to the present disclosure, which includes a battery rack 201 and multiple battery modules 10, and the specific structure of the battery modules 10 can refer to the above embodiments. Since the battery cluster 20 adopts all the technical solutions of all the above embodiments, it has at least all the beneficial effects brought by the technical solutions of the above embodiments, which is not described in detail herein. As shown in
Fire-fighting equipment 30 is further provided according to the present disclosure, for fire-fighting of the battery cluster 20 as described above, and the fire-fighting equipment 30 includes a fire-fighting pipeline 301, a fire-fighting device and a controller; the fire-fighting pipeline 301 is configured to be fitted on the battery rack 201 of the battery cluster 20 and is connected with the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 of the battery cluster 20; the fire-fighting device includes a fire-fighting agent storage module 302 and a detection module 303, the fire-fighting agent storage module 302 is in communication with the fire-fighting pipeline 301, and the detection module 303 is fitted on the fire-fighting pipeline 301 and is configured to detect whether an abnormality occurs in the fire-fighting pipeline 301; the controller is configured to control the fire-fighting agent storage module 302 to release the fire-fighting agent in case that the detection module detects that an abnormality occurs in the fire-fighting pipeline 301. Such arrangement can enable the targeted fire-extinguishing to be performed on the battery cluster 20 in time at the early stage of fire, that is, the targeted fire-extinguishing is performed at the early stage of fire through the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 on the battery cluster 20, which further avoids the spread of fire and improves the use safety of the battery cluster 20.
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The form of fire-fighting agent is at least one of gas, liquid, gas-liquid mixture, solid-liquid mixture or gas-solid-liquid mixture. According to the form of the fire-fighting agent located in the fire-fighting pipe 301, the detection module 303 can be selected as a pressure sensor or a flow sensor, or a pressure sensor and a flow sensor simultaneously, or other detection devices that can detect whether an abnormality occurs in the fire-fighting pipe 301.
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Specifically, the branch pipeline 301c is a hose and is made of soft material, which facilitates of distribution and maintenance and of connecting the battery modules 10 at different positions, thus optimizing the layout design of the fire-fighting pipe 301 and improving the working stability of the fire-fighting equipment 30. The trunk pipeline 301a is a rigid pipeline, such as a steel pipeline, which facilitates of fixing the fire-fighting pipe 301 to the battery rack 201 and improves the smoothness of the flow of the fire-fighting agent in the fire-fighting pipe 301. The present disclosure is not limited thereto, in other embodiments, the branch pipelines 301c and the trunk pipeline 301a are rigid pipelines such as steel pipelines, which facilitates of fitting the fire-fighting pipe 301 and improve the smoothness of the flow of the fire-fighting agent in the fire-fighting pipe 301.
According to the comprehensive cost, fitting convenience and maintenance convenience, the detection module 303 can be fitted on the trunk pipeline 301a; certainly, the detection modules 303 can be fitted on the sub-pipelines 301b. In case that the detection modules 303 are fitted on the sub-pipelines 301b, the relative cost is higher, but the accuracy is also higher, that is, it can determine which plug/plugs at the fire-fighting spray nozzle 102 corresponding to the battery module 10/battery modules 10 is/are deformed by determining the abnormal information transmitted by the detection module 303 at different locations, so that targeted fire-fighting and targeted maintenance measures can be performed.
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In the present disclosure, each battery cluster 20 is provided with one switch box 305, and one real-time monitoring device 304 is configured to monitor the indexes of one battery module 10 and transmit the corresponding fire-fighting information, that is, the monitoring module 304a in each real-time monitoring device 304 detects the corresponding fire-fighting information of the corresponding battery module 10 and transmits the fire-fighting information to the information processing feedback module 304b, the information processing feedback module 304b processes the obtained fire-fighting information and transmits it to the battery management system in the switch box 305, and the battery management system further compares the received fire-fighting information to determine whether to take corresponding fire-fighting measures for the battery module 10 or the battery cluster 20 and send corresponding alarm prompts, so that the fire-extinguishing is performed on the battery module 10 with thermal runaway in time while the indiscriminate spraying on the battery modules 10 in a normal state can be avoided, which improves the accuracy of information transmission and the timeliness and specificity of the fire-extinguishing.
The real-time monitoring device 304 can be fitted at a position where fire is easy to occur, such as a position with large heat generation, a position with poor heat dissipation conditions, or a position where the fire-fighting information of the overall battery core 104 can be easily collected, as shown in
An enclosed energy storage system is further provided according to the present disclosure, which includes a battery cluster 20 and fire-fighting equipment 30, and the specific structures of the battery cluster 20 and the fire-fighting equipment 30 can refer to the above embodiments. Since the battery cluster 20 and the fire-fighting equipment 30 adopt all the technical solutions of all the above embodiments, the enclosed energy storage system has at least all the beneficial effects brought by the technical solutions of the above embodiments, which is not described in detail herein.
The above are only preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, and do not limit the scope of the present disclosure. Under the concept of the present disclosure, any equivalent structural transformation made by using the content of description and drawings of the present disclosure, or direct/indirect disclosures in other related technical fields, are included in the protection scope of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202220160020.5 | Jan 2022 | CN | national |
