Biologic: BCS-900 series & BT-Lab Software Suite
Thursday, 2 May 2024
High-end cyclers for demanding needs
Building on BioLogic’s established reputation for reliable instrumentation, the BCS-900 Battery Cycler represents a revolutionary leap forward. This system merges unmatched performance with a user-centric design owing to the groundbreaking BT-Lab® software suite, the latest innovation in battery testing technology.
BT-Test™ integrates cutting-edge features that empower researchers with unparalleled control and flexibility in designing, running and monitoring cycling experiments. Researchers can effortlessly control variables to tailor experiments to their exact specifications, ensuring the acquisition of highly accurate and insightful data.
For demanding battery data processing, in-depth and automated analysis is completed with BT-Analysis™. Analyses adapt to specific needs with unmatched flexibility. Access to critical data anytime, anywhere – online or offline – ensures key data is never missed. BT-Analysis™ empowers detailed analysis by displaying data in various formats, including vs. cycles, loops, and steps. It even displays application-oriented graphs, tables, and statistical tools to gain a deeper understanding of battery behavior.
Why BioLogic for cycling ?
Comprehensive from test to analysis
Starting with a turnkey installation, the BCS-900 series has an application-oriented design. Higher fidelity is guaranteed with features like fully integrated EIS analysis and flexible and automated Test Plan settings. The Recipes feature automatically generates graphs and tables that users can display in overlays, allowing for simultaneous data analysis.
Run reliable & safe tests
Battery cycling tests are long term and high stakes and the BCS-900 series is the only battery cycler on the market with an on-board SSD drive, ensuring data is never lost. A dedicated and embedded operating system and local storage redundancy guarantees demanding data processing needs are met. Automatic or manual actions can be defined with safety limits and built-in security features to ensure the integrity of tests is never compromised.
Remote or on-site real-time updates are available – without needing to connect the system to a PC – making it a truly independent instrument.
Adapt to evolving needs
Flexibility and modularity are key, with the BCS-900 each cabinet can be customized for modular setup to meet the user’s specific needs. Users can combine BCS-900 modules and achieve measurements ranging from a few µA up to 120 A, while maintaining high precision for every current range.
Control & measure with precision
Each module of the BCS-900 series offers unparalleled precision, accuracy, and resolution across five current ranges tailored to accommodate diverse battery capacities and C-rates, ensuring the utmost accuracy is maintained. Its seamless CC-CV switch and minimal standard deviations between channels enhance performance. With a 1 ms continuous sampling and processing rate, along with oversampling capabilities enabling averaging and achieving exceptionally low signal-to-noise ratios, setting a new standard in battery testing technology.
BT-Lab® Software Suite From reliable tests to efficient analysis
The BCS-900 series Battery Cyclers feature BT-Lab® software Suite, the latest advancement in battery testing technology. This groundbreaking software integrates state-of-the-art features to enhance control, monitoring, and analysis capabilities for rigorous battery testing applications.
Ensuring the utmost reliability in cycling procedures, continuous monitoring throughout testing is provided by our embedded BT-Test™, guaranteeing consistent and accurate results. Efficiency in data analysis is further optimized through the advanced BT-Analysis™ software, enabling rapid and insightful interpretation of complex datasets. Specifically engineered for battery testing, essential features such as native EIS provide researchers and engineers comprehensive tools to delve deeper into battery performance and behavior.
BT-Test™ Superior performance in battery testing software.
Testing Center
Efficient battery testing is empowered through unparalleled flexibility by intuitive Test Run setup, real-time data visualization, and remote access capabilities. Users can effortlessly create and run cycling tests and automatically generate graphs for immediate insights into battery performance and even Modify Test Plans On-the-Fly based on real-time measurements.
Lab Manager
Managing channels, users and instruments is simple, with easy filter options to quickly view DUT Run status, user activity and any messages.
Data Manager
Easily select and manage data for analysis and export.
Global View
Monitor all channels simultaneously on an advanced Global View. The status of each channel is displayed with different colors to give quick, informative and visual indicators.
BT-Analysis™ Maximum efficiency with automated batch data processing.
Boards
Battery testing generates an enormous amount of data and thanks to BTA researchers can now enjoy data processing and analysis. Boards is a data processing and statistic tool designed specifically for battery applications – oriented towards visualizations – including graphs, tables, and statistical tools. With intuitive and user-friendly navigation, users can customize graphical and tabular representations that fit their needs. Battery plot comparisons become more useful with the ability to visualize and filter process values by cycle, loop or step to simplify cell comparisons across systems and previous tests.
Recipes
The Recipe feature makes batch data processing automatic, with just a few clicks graphical or tabular data across hundreds of Test Runs can be generated, for when quick and decisive action is must.
Test Reporting and Export
The ultimate goal of analysis is to share data with others. With manual or automatic processes, based on Recipes, BT-Analysis™ data can be easily displayed and used for reporting.
Native EIS
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a valuable tool for researchers and developers in the field of battery technology. It offers a non-destructive way to gain insights into the internal processes of a battery, providing information that traditional DC measurements cannot. BioLogic’s instruments, with their fast bandwidth controllers, offer both potentio- and galvano- control for EIS measurements in a 10 kHz to 10 mHz frequency range.
Why EIS for battery testing?
By applying a small AC signal across a range of frequencies, EIS measures the battery’s impedance. Analyzing this data unlocks details about various aspects of the battery’s operation, including:
- Charge transfer kinetics at the electrode/electrolyte interface
- Ionic transport properties within the electrolyte
- Solid Electrolyte Interface (SEI) formation and stability
- Equivalent circuit modeling for battery performance prediction
- Indicate degradation mechanisms like electrode aging or electrolyte breakdown.
Benefits of Native and Integrated EIS:
Integrated EIS eliminates the need for third-party instrumentation, offering a more streamlined and user-friendly experience. With native EIS, the entire testing process, from setting parameters to data acquisition and analysis, can be performed within a single platform, improving efficiency, and reducing risk of errors during data transfer between instruments.