Yuliya Preger

Yuliya Preger

Chemical Engineer, Battery Reliability

Contact Information

Yuliya Preger / (505) 218-3742

Biography

Yuliya Preger is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Group at Sandia National Labs. She earned her PhD and BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT, respectively. Her current work is centered on the safety and reliability of Li-ion and aqueous batteries for grid-level energy storage applications. Her research interests include battery cell level degradation and abuse response, application of power electronics to energy storage safety, using battery data for improved energy storage modeling, and system level energy storage safety. She is co-founder of batteryarchive.org, the first public repository for easy visualization and comparison of lithium-ion battery degradation data across institutions.

Research Interests

Battery cell level degradation and abuse response, including electrochemical, materials, and thermal characterization

Application of power electronics to energy storage safety, including optimization of storage/converter interfaces

Incorporation of battery data to improve accuracy of energy storage models (e.g. technoeconomic, cybersecurity)

System level energy storage safety analysis

Education

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2018

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013

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Yuliya Preger

Key Publications

Y. Preger, H.M. Barkholtz, A. Fresquez, D.L. Campbell, S.R. Ferreira, B.R. Chalamala “Degradation of Commercial Lithium-ion Cells as a Function of Chemistry and Cycling Conditions” J. Electrochem. Soc. 2020, 167 120532, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abae37.

R.C. Shurtz, Y. Preger, L. Torres-Castro, J. Lamb, J.C. Hewson, S.R. Ferreira “Perspective — From Calorimetry Measurements to Furthering Mechanistic Understanding and Control of Thermal Abuse in Lithium-Ion Cells” J. Electrochem. Soc. 2019, 12 A2498-A2502, DOI: 10.1149/2.0341912jes.

R.M. Wittman, M.L. Perry, T.N. Lambert, B.R. Chalamala, Y. Preger “Perspective — On the Need for Reliability and Safety Studies of Grid-Scale Aqueous Batteries” J. Electrochem. Soc. 2020, 167 090545, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab9406.

H.M. Barkholtz, Y. Preger, S. Ivanov, L. Torres-Castro, J. Langendorf, J. Lamb, J. Hewson, B.R. Chalamala, S.R. Ferreira “Multi-scale thermal stability study of commercial lithium-ion batteries as a function of cathode chemistry and state-of-charge” J. Power Sources 2019, 435, 226777, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.226777.

R. Fioravanti, K. Kumar, S. Nakata, B.R. Chalamala, Y. Preger “Predictive-Maintenance Practices: For Operational Safety of Battery Energy Storage Systems” IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 86-97, Nov.-Dec. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/MPE.2020.3014542.

Key Patents

“Flow-Based Anode for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of a Fuel or Other Reductant.” Stahl, S.S.; Root, T. W.; Preger, Y.; Anson, C.W.; Gerken, J. B. US2018/0358642A1

“Flow-Based Cathode with Non-Platinum Transition Metal Redox Catalyst.” Stahl, S.S.; Root, T.W.; Biswas, S.; Preger, Y.; Anson, C.W. US2019/0131650A1