Integration of Semi-Empirical and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Modeling Lithium-Ion Electrolyte Systems Dynamic Viscosity
Abstract Dynamic viscosity is a key characteristic of electrolyte performance in lithium-ion battery. This work introduces a one parameter semi-empirical model and artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the viscosity of salt-free solvent mixtures and relative viscosity of Li-ion electrolyte solutions (lithium salt + solvent mixture), respectively. Data used in this study were obtained experimentally, in addition to data extracted from literature. There are seven inputs of the ANN model: salt concentration, electrolyte temperature, salt anion size, solvent melting and boiling temperatures, solvent dielectric constant, and solvent dipole moment. Different configuration of the ANN was tested and the configuration with least error was chosen. The results show the capability of the semi-empirical model to predict the viscosity with an overall mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.05% and 3.17% for binary and tertiary mixtures, respectively. The ANN model predicted the relative viscosity of electrolyte solutions with MAPE of 4.86%. The application of both models in series, resulted predicted the viscosity with MAPE 2.3%, although the ANN MAPE alone is higher than this value. Thus, this work highlights the promise of using predictive models to complement physical approaches and to provide an effective way to perform initial screening on Li-ion electrolytes.