Zhirong Wang

Lithium-ion Battery Safety provides an in-depth exploration of the safety challenges associated with lithium-ion batteries, focusing on thermal runaway—a critical and potentially catastrophic failure mode. It systematically analyzes the mechanisms, characteristics, and influencing factors of thermal runaway under various abusive conditions, such as mechanical, electrical, and thermal stresses. The book also examines the propagation of thermal runaway, its derivative disasters, and effective countermeasures, offering valuable insights into prevention, mitigation, and safety management to safeguard lives and property while supporting the sustainable development of the new energy industry. This book is an essential resource for researchers, engineers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students involved in battery technology, energy storage, and safety management. It aims to enhance understanding, promote industry-standard safety practices, support technological innovation, and contribute to the sustainable growth of the new energy ecosystem. Whether you are involved in battery design, safety regulation, or industry application, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the knowledge needed to prevent accidents and advance safer energy storage solutions. This book also explores the fundamental composition and working principles of lithium-ion batteries, providing a thorough understanding of the mechanisms and triggers of thermal runaway, as well as the associated hazards such as fires, explosions, and toxic gas releases. It emphasizes the importance of examining current safety standards, research methodologies—including experimental and simulation approaches—and the influence of factors like battery design, aging, and environmental conditions on safety. Moreover, it highlights the development of effective countermeasures, such as thermal management systems, early warning technologies, physical barriers, and fire suppression techniques. Addressing existing safety gaps, fostering technological innovation, and establishing comprehensive industry standards are essential steps toward improving safety, supporting sustainable industry growth, and guiding policy development.

This first-of-its-kind, two-volume primer is addressed to meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of Chinese language students who were raised in the United States in Chinese-speaking homes and can speak the language but who cannot read or write it. The book's lessons and exercises build upon the cultural knowledge of these "advanced beginners" in order to facilitate full language acquisition. As a culture-based primer, this text takes an unusual and innovative approach, with lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythology, customs, and cuisine. The focus, therefore, is not on sentence grammar, but rather on reading strategies and on "discourse grammar," a new, more authentic approach to the study of languages.

Methods and Tools for Resilience and Dynamic Risk Assessment of Chemical Processes introduces systematic approaches in risk assessment in chemical process safety along with relevant tools, models and latest methodologies for assessing safety and resilience in chemical processes, systems engineering, risk and resilience engineering, and simulation and modelling. The first chapters in this book outline the theoretical framework of chemical process safety, emphasizing the integration of safety into chemical engineering through key ideas like inherent safety and corporate culture. It highlights the significance of Process Hazard Identification (PHI) methods, including traditional techniques and advancements such as AI, for effectively identifying and mitigating hazards. Further chapters investigate advanced hazard assessment methodologies like Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) and Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS), alongside dynamic risk assessment techniques. The text also discusses the evolution of "resilience" in process safety, resilience assessment methods, and simulation tools for enhancing safety. This book includes real-world case studies coupled with insights on future trends in technology to help researchers and students alike to conduct their own future research into risk and resilience assessment in chemical process safety fields. This book will be an invaluable guide to anyone working in chemical process safety, particularly within the fields of risk assessment, systems modelling and control.

This open access book first introduces the explosive characteristics of combustible gas in the process industrial device, and then introduces the influence law of structural effect on gas explosion characteristics and deflagration to detonation process, and finally introduces the suppression mechanism and protection technology of gas explosion. This book takes the process industrial gas explosion characteristics and its protection as the research object, and discusses the gas explosion characteristics and its protection theory in details. This book can be used as the undergraduate and graduate textbook of safety engineering and related engineering majors in universities, and also as a reference for scientific research staff in safety science and engineering and related disciplines, and also for the reference of safety technology and management personnels.