IEEE-PSES Chicago Chapter Meeting and Presentation (Addressing the Challenges of Ensuring Safety for EV Batteries & Battery Energy Storage Systems)

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6:00 – SHORT BUSINESS MEETING

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MINUTES: Members have access to meeting minutes and presentations. Check out the “Chapter Records” using the following link for more information.  http://ieeechicago.org/pses/

UPCOMING 2021 PSES MEETINGS:

  • September 22, Technical Meeting: Battery Energy Storage Systems – The State of Safety, Laurie Florence, UL
  • September 20-24: Virtual ISPCE, https://2021.psessymposium.org

  • October 27, Technical Meeting (Followup to a 2018 discussion regarding Emissions and Health Hazards from Consumer Level 3D Printers. 

  • No chapter meetings Nov or Dec (Happy Holidays)

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6:10 - PRESENTATION


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  • Date: 22 Sep 2021
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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  • Starts 13 September 2021 03:00 PM
  • Ends 22 September 2021 06:00 PM
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Laurie Florence of

Topic:

Addressing the Challenges of Ensuring Safety for EV Batteries & Battery Energy Storage Systems

Battery energy storage systems have gone from being a demo project or novelty addition to support renewable energy to a necessity for renewable energy installations and other areas of support for the grid.  Battery energy storage systems are also being installed with increasing frequency in residential applications to support solar systems.  Many of these systems rely upon lithium ion batteries as their battery storage technology.  This is also the situation with EVs.  There is an increase in usage of EVs as they become more affordable and jurisdictions are considering efforts to meet emissions standards. More and more OEMs are offering versions of electrical vehicles including trucks and buses. With an increase of this usages though, there has been an increase of fire incidents involving battery energy storage systems (BESS) and EVs.  What is driving these incidents and what is being done to address these?

In the standards arena, UL has been in the forefront of ensuring battery safety including EV and battery energy storage safety. During this presentation, Laurie Florence will provide an overview of the progress made with codes and standards including Ul 1973, Standard for Batteries for Use in Stationary, Vehicle Auxiliary Power and Light Electric Rail (LER) Applications; UL 9540, Standard for Energy Storage Systems and Equipment and UL 9540A, Test Method for Evaluating Thermal Runaway Fire Propagation in Battery Energy Storage Systems, the NFPA 855, NFPA 70. NFPA 1 and ICC IFC codes.  For EVs, she will go over what is being done for UL 2580, Standard for Batteries for EVs and UN GTRs (Global Technical Regulations for EVs) to address vehicle safety challenges.  She will also briefly  go over the challenges with testing of these systems.

 

Biography:

Laurie Florence is a UL Corporate Fellow and UL’s Principal Engineer for stationary/motive batteries and ESS.  Laurie has over 30 years of experience in product safety and standards development. She represents UL on a variety of UL standards technical panels including 1973/1989, 1974, 2580/2271, 810/810A/810B, 2267 and 9540/9540A – as well as other industry standards and battery committees across ANSI, SAE, ISO, IEC, IECEE, CSA, and NFPA.  Laurie is also the chair of IEC SC21A, convener for IEC SC21A WG 5  and the convener of MT 8 of IEC TC 120.

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Address:UL LLC 333 Pfingsten Road , IL 60062-2096 USA, , Northbrook,, United States, 60062-2096