Battery Power Management for Portable Devices (Artech House Power Engineering)

I was delighted to see this book come out. I have been a proponent of the Z-Track Battery Management system, and it seemed good to read a leading book on Batteries from the guy who invented that system (Yevgen Baruskov). The Impedance-Based modelling approach is the state of the art, and will serve the industry for years to come. For insights into battery management in general, this book from Yury and his associate (Jinrong Qian) is a gem. Yevgen's down-to-earth demeanor, and his evident command of the science, makes him a favorite at battery conferences. Now, he brings forth a strong statement on overall battery system design, and it is a most welcome contribution.Lingering questions have long nagged me, even while taking full battery designs to production. This fine volume fills in those cracks nicely. I was especially pleased with the sections on battery chemistry; internal impedance modeling, and battery charging. Most recently, I am reviewing Chapter 3, Battery Safety and Protection.Battery pros will tell you that we are always learning. This volume gets better with follow-up reads, the sure sign of a good book. And its reasonable size makes it handier than that jumbo, ubiquitous "Battery Handbook".Buy this book and get informed.

This is an excellent text to get to know the overall landscape of batteries and power management. I would not recommend paying full price though. The state of the art (almost) is described in reasonable detail. The text falls short in several areas - battery chemistry and how batteries work is treated almost as if the reader were already familiar with the topic. For example the figures on cathodes and anodes and the nomenclature is not clear at all. The use of black and white images of poor resolution makes it hard to use it as a fundamental text. Surely there are excellent images and animations available in color to describe the charging and discharging process in li-ion batteries. Fortunately several university lectures are available to fill in this gap. Another grouse of mine is that while the text claims to discuss fuel gauging algorithms, the finer details which are in some sense public domain by way of patents is treated cautiously. Given the authors are employees of a company, this is understandable from a trade secret point of view but as a text to enthuse the reader the text disappoints. In this regard, some of the app notes from TI or other companies are a better read and free of cost. References to literature are minimal and reader may have to dig into patent documents to really understand how battery gauging works in practice. A final point is the lack of exercises that would make for using this text in a classroom setting. At 50% of full price it was a great buy. I wish the authors take note of the shortcomings and come out with a color print 2nd edition.

Pros at Texas Instruments wrote this book, and I've talked to Yevgen on the phone about charging algorithms, as part of my job. This book is great for designing long-life battery systems, not necessarily high-power.

very good choice!

Are you an engineer or a curious do-it-yourself enthusiast? If you are, then this book is for you. Authors Yevgen Barsukov and Jinrong Qian, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that aims to make it clear that batteries and battery management electronics that are used, should be able to operate in the most efficient and safest way.Authors Barsukova and Qian, begin by summarizing the best handling practices based on a particular chemistry for the most common rechargeable battery types in order to ensure the best longevity of the battery; as well as, adequate safety of the device. Next, the authors discuss battery charging algorithms, battery charging system topologies, design considerations, the main battery charger applications, and the popular battery charger ICs.Then, they show you how to accomplish a remodeling of battery designers’ thinking; and, offer a practical solution to all of the challenges that arise from highly energetic mobile power sources. In addition, the authors discuss why when multiple cells are connected in series, the cell voltage is not always equal to the pack voltage divided by the number of cells. They continue by describing battery fuel gauging, which is the expression that everyone is using to describe what this little chip inside the battery is doing. The authors then briefly analyze the system-level ESD, EMI minimization, and specific design considerations for each piece of the end equipment. Finally, the authors apply the principles of the different ingredients of a successful battery-operated system to specific portable systems to demonstrate them in action; and, to provide you with an actionable reference template that you can use as a starting point for your own development efforts for such systems or expand to other systems with similar properties.This most excellent book covers rechargeable battery fundamentals, explaining how any battery operates and describing the common factors to consider when choosing a battery. Furthermore, this great book explains the how and why of battery management systems; and, provides would-be designers of battery management systems and chargers with enough information to be successful. Finally, the book combines all of the various pieces of knowledge about battery management, and provides examples of complete battery-operated systems that can be cut-and-pasted into your designs.

This is a great book for an engineer or manager working on a battery-intensive portable device. I approached it having done many battery-powered projects but for the first time facing one where volumetric charge density and charge/discharge rates were critical. The book digs into the details with a schematic model for how a battery responds to charge/discharge current. It goes into various battery chemistry and options, cell balancing, protections and standards, and how modern charging chips and fuel gauge chips work. It does not get bogged down in arcane academic details. It’s not afraid to dig into battery science, but only when there’s a practical application to the knowledge.