Research Progress on Thermal Runaway Monitoring and Early Warning Technologies for Lithium-ion Battery Transport Packaging

CHEN Xin; LIU Song; SHI Wen; LI Jinding; YUAN Shuai; YUAN Wei; MIAO Fei; CHENG Donghao

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.13.006

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (13) : 48-58. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.13.006

Special Topic on Protection Technologies and Packaging Containers for Lithium Battery Transportation

Research Progress on Thermal Runaway Monitoring and Early Warning Technologies for Lithium-ion Battery Transport Packaging

CHEN Xin¹, LIU Song¹, SHI Wen², LI Jinding², YUAN Shuai², YUAN Wei¹, MIAO Fei¹, CHENG Donghao^2,*

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To address the increasing safety risks of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries during transportation, the work aims to systematically review the major technological approaches in thermal runaway monitoring and early warning, and analyze their adaptability in transport packaging scenarios. By focusing on six types of early warning methods of electrical, thermal, mechanical, gas, acoustic, and optical fields, their working principles, technical advantages and disadvantages, and adaptability were compared. Additionally, combined with technological paths from dangerous goods transportation, cold chain logistics, and AI-enabled early warning systems, a conceptual framework integrating multi-source sensing and edge processing into the transportation packaging system was proposed. Existing monitoring methods face challenges such as delayed response, sensor deployment limitations, and poor environmental adaptability. Future work should focus on multimodal sensing fusion, lightweight data processing, and hierarchical response mechanisms to support the development of highly reliable and adaptable safety systems for lithium-ion transport.

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lithium-ion battery / transport packaging / thermal runaway / monitoring / early warning

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CHEN Xin, LIU Song, SHI Wen, LI Jinding, YUAN Shuai, YUAN Wei, MIAO Fei, CHENG Donghao. Research Progress on Thermal Runaway Monitoring and Early Warning Technologies for Lithium-ion Battery Transport Packaging[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2025, 46(13): 48-58 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.13.006

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