Experimental validation of model-based control on a pouch cell performed at NREL

SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The world is looking toward a renewable energy future. But taking full advantage of solar and wind power or electric vehicles will require safe and reliable energy storage solutions. Lithium-ion batteries are promising, but they only last for between 300 to 500 cycles—or two to three years when charging them ultra fast.

But BattGenie, Inc. is changing the way industry thinks about lithium-ion battery lifecycles. Their advanced battery management system adjusts how the battery functions to improve lifespan and reduce the amount of time to a full charge.

 

"Our software can improve the life of a battery by 200 percent while reducing charging time," says Chintan Pathak, CPO and co-founder of BattGenie. "If you're using a phone, your business can continue with a short stop to charge the phone. Electric vehicles can have smaller batteries or batteries with significantly longer life. This also means that you get a longer driving range with our approach per cycle compared to the existing method. And for stationary storage, you can go much longer between battery replacements or extract more energy out of the batteries over their lives."

BattGenie uses porous electrode pseudo-2-dimensional (P2D) models to run its first-in-kind system that can solve and implement battery operation solutions in milliseconds.

“Our software produces an advanced, physics-based model of the inner workings of lithium-ion batteries, then uses details gleaned from this model to adjust the charging profile of the battery to avoid degradation. We have the fastest, most advanced physics-based model ever displayed,” says Venkat Subramanian, co-founder of BattGenie and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). The initial research for BattGenie was done in Subramanian’s lab. An EDC II Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, Subramanian is also BattGenie’s CTO and Chief Scientific Advisor.

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Venkat Subramanian

CTO, Chief Scientific Advisor, and Co-Founder

Prof. Venkat Subramanian is currently the Ernest Dashiell Cockrell II Professor of Mechanical & Material Science Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.

His research interests include energy systems engineering, electrochemical engineering, computationally efficient algorithms for state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) estimation of lithium-ion batteries, multiscale simulation, and design of energetic materials, kinetic Monte Carlo methods, model-based battery management system for electric transportation, and renewable microgrids and nonlinear model predictive control. Prof. Subramanian was awarded the Dean’s award for excellence in graduate study in 2001 for his doctoral research.

He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a past Technical Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. He was also the chair of the IEEE Division of the Electrochemical Society. His codes for Lithium-ion batteries are the fastest reported in the literature and his algorithm for solving index 1 nonlinear DAEs is the most robust compared to any other algorithm reported as of today.

Prof. Subramanian received his B.Tech. degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering from the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, India, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, in 2001.

Manan Pathak

CEO and Co-Founder

Dr. Manan Pathak is the CEO and Co-Founder of BattGenie.

He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and he obtained his graduate thesis on model-based battery management systems. He has over 7 publications, and an extensive experience of physics-based battery models, numerical methods and deriving optimal model-based charging profiles.

Chintan Pathak

CPO and Co-Founder

Dr. Chintan Pathak is the Co-Founder and CPO of BattGenie.

He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and he obtained his graduate thesis on optimal locations of battery charging stations for the state of WA. He has over 13 years of experience on software engineering and embedded systems.

Michael Waller

Director of Business Development and Sales

Michael received an Associates Degree from Georgia Military College, studied computer science at Franklin Pierce College, completed a Bachelor’s in Business at Kennedy Western University, and completed an MBA at Warren National University, with a thesis on the Failure of Japanese Production Methodologies in Western Cultures.

Michael has a diverse background including instructor duty at the US Navy Guided Missiles School, a strong entrepreneurial spirit which led to the establishment of three commercial ventures, and he holds three product design patents.

Having worked with two of the most recognized names in the battery industry, he has significant experience leading cross-functional teams in international settings. He has been involved with the evolving landscape of Lithium batteries for the past twenty-five years and has served on standards committees such as the RTCA SC-225 and SAE International AE-7B. In the role of Business Development lead, he has served as technical advisor to many of the leading OEM and Tier One suppliers in the commercial and defense sectors of the aerospace community and has served as a subject matter expert for technical panel discussions with the FAA.

Dr. Suryanarayana Kolluri

Battery Controls Expert

Dr. Suryanarayana Kolluri is the Battery Controls Expert at BattGenie and currently working as a Research Associate at UT Austin.

He obtained his PhD from IIT Bombay and worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Maple Lab in UW Seattle. He is an expert in parameter identification and control algorithms using physics-based battery models.

Zander Nevitt

Hardware and Data Engineer