Fire Technology - Special Issue: Battery Fires

Guest Editors:
Dr. Qingsong Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Ping Ping, China University of Petroleum, China

Submission Status: Open  |   Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024

Description
This Special Issue highlights the importance of battery fire safety and notes the progress made in the field. The following areas are considered  in this issue:

• Heat generation
• Thermal management
• Gas generation
• Ignition and propagation
• Fire and explosion dynamics
• Detection and suppression
• Safer materials
• Risk assessment during production, transportation, storage and usage.

This Special Issue aims to give new insights into the ignition mechanisms and safety performance of batteries, and discusses new prevention and protection means.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to United Nation Sustainable Development Goals 3: Good Health & Well-Being (this opens in a new tab); 7: Affordable and Clean Energy (this opens in a new tab);  8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (this opens in a new tab); 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure (this opens in a new tab) & 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities (this opens in a new tab).

Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI – Battery Fires". 

Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.

Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at 3rd ISLBFS are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of 3rd ISLBFS papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this Special Issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Meet the Guest Editors:
Qingsong Wang is a Professor of State Key Laboratory of Fire Science at the University of Science and Technology. He is working on the fire safety on energy application since 2003, such as Lithium ion battery fire dynamics and prevention, and the inherent of spontaneous combustion. Prof. Wang has published more than 200 pre-viewed journal papers, and they were cited more than 15000 times. He services as guest editors of Fire Technology for two special issues. The lifetime member of International Association for Fire Safety Science.

Ping Ping is an Associate Professor in China University of Petroleum (East China). She was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in University of Warwick. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2014. Her research topics are battery safety issues, safer battery materials and design, battery fire extinguishing and explosion suppression. She is Scientific Committee member of the International Symposium on Lithium Battery Fire Safety (ISLBFS). For her work on the battery safety, she received the Public Safety Science and Technology Award (First Prize) and Science and Technology Innovation Award of China Fire Protection Association (First Prize).