About DigiBatt
DigiBatt will combine traditional battery testing methods with state-of-the-art digital techniques to make battery testing faster, cheaper and more accurate.
We will develop digital approaches to allow us to extract more value from fewer tests, saving valuable time and resources in a highly competitive industry.
DigiBatt targets a 30% reduction in the time and 20% reduction in the cost of battery development.
Here’s how we’ll do it:
We will make a digital twin framework which can store data and setup and run tests (physical and virtual) automatically
This helps because…
Automatic transfer of data and test triggering cuts out human bottlenecks
We will replace physical tests with virtual, physics-based and data-driven simulations
This helps because…
Virtual tests are faster and cheaper to run than physical tests
We will use data-driven methods to develop tools for intelligent design of testing protocols
This helps because…
We can choose to only run the tests we really need
Why?
The need for clean and sustainable energy-independence is one of the most pressing challenges facing the European Union (EU) today. The EU has declared its intention to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, and the EU’s “Fit for 55” plan aims to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030. The EU’s “Fit for 55” plan aims to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030. As a result, battery demand in Europe is forecasted to reach a staggering 450 GWh in 2030. Building an advanced European battery value chain is essential to achieving this while maintaining a robust transport and electricity infrastructure.
Quickly developing new battery designs to meet the diverse needs of many different customers requires a lot of data and testing. The current paradigm for battery testing is fragmented, time-consuming, and expensive. To fully characterize the performance of a battery cell requires a wide variety of both destructive and non-destructive tests, some of which can last for months or years.
A new paradigm for battery testing is needed that takes full advantage of the latest advances in automation, data science, and modelling to bring battery development firmly into the digital era.
What will we create?
The main output from DigiBatt will be a novel open-source, multiscale digital toolbox.
There are 4 main sets of tools which will go into the toolbox:
- Standard ways to describe battery test data (standard, semantic, data models), which can be read and understood by both humans and machines
- A digital-twin infrastructure linking experimental testing rigs with simulation-based virtual testing workflows and allowing for automatic triggering of tests
- Data-driven approaches to support intelligent design of experiments and tailored testing workflows
- Reliable new models for predicting battery lifetime and safety within system-level infrastructure
Delivering publicly available, open-source solutions will also be a key objective of the project. These developments are expected to streamline testing workflows, enhance the quality of results, and make digital battery testing accessible to the broader battery community.
Our Timeline
DigiBatt is a 3 year, Horizon EU project which will run from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2026.
More information about the project can be found on CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101103997