FEATURE: LITHIUM BATTERY ERA
Huawei
prepared
for lithium
battery era
Data centre managers are always
keen to understand how they can
make more efficient and sustainable
choices when it comes to power.
In this article, Huawei’s regional
team tell us how the company has
launched its new-generation data
centre lithium battery solution
SmartLi and how this provides
numerous benefits to customers.
This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to John B
Goodenough, M·Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for
their contribution to the development of lithium batteries.
John Goodenough, who is 97, also becomes the oldest ever Nobel
laureate. His lifelong exploration of lithium batteries is truly admirable.
As one of his important discoveries, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is
currently the safest cathode material for lithium batteries.
Thanks to Goodenough’s remarkable identification of LiFePO4, LiFePO4
batteries, or LFP batteries, have been created and widely used in various
places. Among them, data centres and communications base stations
are two of the most common application scenarios. Lightweight and
powerful lithium batteries are also used in fields like electric vehicles.
Compared with lead-acid batteries, lithium batteries are smaller, lighter
and have higher energy density, higher availability, longer service life
and more cycle times.
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