A Novel Screening Method Based on a Partially Discharging Curve Using a Genetic Algorithm and Back-Propagation Model for the Cascade Utilization of Retired Lithium-Ion Batteries

Reusing the retired lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles can generate considerable economic benefits. In this paper, a novel screening method based on partial discharge curves using a genetic algorithm and back-propagation (GA-BP) neural network for the retired cells is proposed. First, the discharge curves of the retired cells with different aging degrees were investigated. Based on this, the calculation method of internal resistance of retired cells was developed. Second, a novel capacity screening model based on a partially discharging process using a GA-BP model was proposed. In this model, the capacity and discharge characteristic data of a small number of sample cells were selected to train the capacity model using GA-BP, and the capacity of a large number of the remaining unsampled cells was estimated using the trained capacity model. Third, the screening simulation model with 108 retired cells was established, and the simulation results showed the effectiveness and rapidity of our proposed method. Finally, experimental verification was performed on the 20 retired cells with different aging degrees. The results showed that our proposed method is feasible, and the maximum error of capacity estimation was 2.951%.