Battery Management Systems for Large Lithium Ion Battery Packs

Cost quite a bit, but man what a book. Great value for money. Big book. So much info I'll have to read a couple of times to get as much as I can out of it.

focuses largely on Electric vehicle or other large cell-number systems.

Great book, highly recommend it.

This is an excellent book, full of technical information on large Lithium batteries and the Battery Management Systems (BMS) required to monitor and control them. As well as a full review of available commercial BMS's, there is sufficient information to enable the reader to build their own BMS. But you have to be an electric vehicle (EV) owner/operator to need all this information.One minor criticism is the occasional typographic error, which indicates insufficient proof reading. This is surprising considering the author's attention to detail in his spelling and his clear concise prose.Thoroughly recommended for any DIY EV owner wanting to install Lithium batteries in their car.

Has details description on battery chain balancing...and how it affected to BMU performance. A good reference for any BMS designer.

I recently replaced the Deka Dominators in my PHEV with 100 Lithium batts. Without this book, I would not have been able to do it correctly. Davide offers complete descriptions of BMS, a variety of different Lithium batteries, and how they work. If GM had this book, their Volt wouldn't have caught on fire.

As an engineer whose uses and works with large Lithium ion batteries, this book seemed very interesting at first. I can't say technically that I finished it. I skimmed a bit. There are some interesting sections giving surveys of SOC measurement methods and balancing methods and these are indeed interesting for comparison and introduction to methods which I hadn't attempted. Perhaps my misgiving is its strength. For me it is too general. The chapter on BMS functions is interesting, but this is what the book should be about. There is a chapter on off the shelf BMSs which may be of interest to the hobbyist, but are large lithium ion packs really something a hobbyist should be building? Sections on explanations on communications such a review of RS232 protocol are really of no use to an engineer. Likewise a section on selecting an ASICs, some of which might be interesting, but after the first few lines, as an engineer, I had to skip. The comparisons of off the shelf BMS ICs while dated, could be interesting, but needs to just cover the pros and cons and act as a survey. There is some interesting mention of how particular cells work, from page 75 "Certain cell chemistries (e.g. Thundersky cells) require that each cell be brought to the top voltage regularly...", but he never says why. On page 148, we see the real audience as the author introduces a home built BMS for a car conversion. Fundamentally there isn't much in the way of engineering or physics in there. It may serve as a nice introduction and some parts are interesting, but not for an engineer. I would give it three stars because some might be intersting in helping people understand what a BMS does, but I worry that the level of detail would encourage people to start home projects on batteries with deadly voltages without enough detail to keep them safe.

I found this book to be way too general.There are not enough technical aspects needed for an engineer, and way too broad of a scope for a hobbyist. It sounds like it was written by someone who really doesn’t know what they are talking about.Would not recommend for even the beginner, as some parts are actually wrong.

This is, surprisingly, a somewhat controversial area. There is a school of thought that BMS systems do more harm than good. This book is an authoritative presentation of the "pro" camp from someone who builds BMS systems for a living, and as such should be required reading for anyone who owns, or plans to own, an electric vehicle.The book deals with a complex subject in a largely non-mathematical way; although at least GCSE (maybe even A level) physics would be needed. For sections of the book you also need some familiarity with the jargon of modern electronics - MOSFETS, ASICs, Multiplexers and the rest - but the book still has value if you skip those bits. To the author's credit he doesn't big up his own products, and uses plenty of examples of competitive devices. He also to his credit goes into some details of precautions to take when wiring up circuits, and give an example of a converted Prius, burned out for lack of a washer on a battery connection.The book has in my view three weaknesses. Firstly the big question with Lithium Ion battery packs is the extent to which individual cells in a pack drift apart in capacity and state of charge. There is published test evidence of this with AGM (a form of valve regulated lead acid) batteries, but the author presents no hard documentary evidence to confirm that Lithium chemistry cells behave the same way. Secondly his arguments for top-balancing rather than bottom balancing are rather shaky. Thirdly, although good, it is an expensive book.It's cheaper than destroying a £5000 battery pack though, and it is a fairly easy read.PS Since writing this, Davide Andrea has published an addednum on his website which addresses one of the issues I raised above

This books contains invaluable information that I could not obtain from other sources. It is well written, informative, academically rigorous, & still it is a good read for those interested in ensuring their batteries last as long as possible, are reliable & give the optimum performance. It is invaluable to electric car converters & manufacturers but also to people with computer uninterruptable power supplies, home lighting systems etc.It sets out in detail the necissary features in a battery management for those either buying one or those choosing to build their own.

Very technical but what we were looking for.

Most essential informations about BMS in one place. Understandable even for beginners.

Little bit technical but got very important and original information about battery L*P battery systems.