Fast Diagnosis of Failure Mechanisms and Lifetime Prediction of Li Metal Batteries.

Lithium (Li) metal serving as an anode has the potential to double or triple stored energies in rechargeable Li batteries. However, they typically have short cycling lifetimes due to parasitic reactions between the Li metal and electrolyte. It is critically required to develop early fault-detection methods for different failure mechanisms and quick lifetime-prediction methods to ensure rapid development.

Response surface data for sensitivity study of industrial spray injected fluidized bed reactor.

An industrial fluidized bed reactor was designed to convert an aqueous solid laden stream into a consistent granular product. CFD simulations were run using the MFiX two-fluid model for a fluidizing bed operating at 650 °C. A set of simulations were run over a Latin-hypercube sample of five model parameters - bed particle size, bed particle density, coal particle size, spray feed flow rate, and fluidizing gas flow rate.