CECG sits in Coventry University’s £50m Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems, established to partner with the propulsion system supply chain and accelerate the progression to carbon-zero transport. We are focused on four core research areas: Electrochemical energy storage; Hydrogen fuel cells; Power electronics & Electric machines. Our facilities enable wide range of activities in energy storage research – from cell assembly, through formation to precise battery grading and diagnostics, performance and safety evaluation, to recovery. Particular focus is put on advanced battery diagnostics – developing novel thermodynamic sensing techniques, such as thermal, electrochemical, pressure, magnetic, strain and other, ranging from miniature quasi-reference electrodes, co-located micron-scale temperature probes, to nano-plasmonic fibre-based lithium sensing, from in-cell up to module level deployment. In combination with in-house Machine Learning capabilities and adaptive BMS, our custom battery diagnostics approach can offer game changing advances in Battery Management Systems and battery behaviour tracking and prognostics.
Haijun Ruan is an Assistant Professor of Batteries & AI at Coventry University, UK, and Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate from 2020 to 2023 with Imperial College London. His research focuses on batteries, AI, and fuel cells, including modelling, thermal management, fast charging, diagnostics/prognostics, and lifetime extension, with 40+ papers published. He is currently engaging in several UK and European projects, such as the Faraday Institution Industry Sprints (PI). He has been invited to (co)organize and (co)chair 5 relevant international conferences, including ISNRE, ICESIV, ICEAI, and AEMDS. He sits on the editorial board of the J. Power and Energy and Recent Progress in Sciences, and acted as the guest editor for several journals, such as Frontiers in Energy Research, World Electric Vehicle Journal, and Energies.