New project explores fire protection for battery storage in buildings
A new project intends to evaluate how fire protection for battery storage can be developed as cost-efficiently as possible in collaboration with other important requirements, such as radiation and ventilation requirements.
Battery storage in buildings has many advantages, and it is becoming more common for such installations to be proposed and investigated in both new and existing buildings. However, regulations lag behind for such battery storage, which means that, for example, fire protection requirements and recommendations vary depending on where in the country an installation is carried out. Various research and development initiatives are underway to reduce such problems and uncertainties, but one missing piece is to holistically study how different requirements could interact to achieve the most cost-efficient solution possible. During ten months, the project will be executed in collaboration with KTH Live-In Lab, where a full-scale installation totalling 186 kWh of electrical energy storage has been installed in an ongoing research project where Northvolt, Einar Mattsson and KTH work together.
More information about the project can be found via the following link: www.liveinlab.kth.se/projekt/r-d-projects/kostnadseffektiv-utformning-av-brandskydd-for-batterilager-i-byggnader-1.1317603