Experimental Study on the Deterioration of Nickel Cadmium Battery Based on External Characteristic Analysis

Abstract

Although nickel cadmium batteries have good comprehensive performance and have been used in rail transit auxiliary power systems for a long time, battery degradation is inevitable during long-term use, which largely limits its power output capability and increases the cost of use. Unlike lithium batteries, the degradation study of nickel cadmium batteries has many shortcomings, mostly limited to a certain characteristic data for degradation prediction, and lack of systematic experimental study. Therefore, this article investigates the external characteristics of nickel cadmium battery degradation from multiple points, such as electrochemical impedance, heat production, thermal stability, gas production, etc. Through the experimental analysis, it can be seen that the degradation leads to an advance in the time of oxygen production, a decrease in the thermal stability, an increase in the heat production per unit time, an increase in the charge transfer impedance and a decrease in the interface double layer capacitance.