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Two more battery energy system storage (BESS) providers, including a manufacturer, have detailed successful fire testing.
The definition of a large-scale fire test per NFPA 855 is the testing of a representative energy storage system that induces a significant fire into the device under test and evaluates whether the fire will spread to adjacent energy storage system units, surrounding equipment, or through an adjacent fire-resistance-rated barrier.
In North America, the newest standards that govern energy storage systems are: Globally, the IEC 62933 series has similar safety requirements as UL 9540, with IEC 62933-5-2:2020 mentioning the need for large-scale fire testing for evaluating thermal runaway of Li-based battery systems and referencing UL 9540A as an example test method.
Prevalon Energy announced the successful completion of a full-scale fire test of its HD5 energy storage platform while following TS-800. Conducted at DNV’s test facility in Texas, the test subjected the 6 MWh HD5 containerised system to internal cell-level thermal runaway conditions, in a back-to-back, side-by-side array of four units.
Large-scale fire testing and UL 9540A are needed to evaluate thermal runaway, fire propagation, and safety of battery energy storage products.
While the details of how a large-scale fire test should be performed are not yet clearly defined in the industry, Fluence has taken a lead to define its own large-scale fire test to create an extreme event in order to demonstrate the behavior of an enclosure fire in a setup that resembles a real energy storage installation.
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