Battery Management Systems for Large Lithium-Ion Battery Packs 1st Edition

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Great book, highly recommend it.

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.

Terrible book. The information is too general for the professionals. The author is an incompetent fool who needs to go back to university. Do not recommend waste of over a $100.