Requirements for Use of Lithium-ion Batteries in the Marine and Offshore Industries
Year: 2025 Language: English Author: American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Genre: Textbook, Requirements Publisher: ABS Edition: December, 2025 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 54 Description: The document establishes safety guidelines for owners, operators, shipyards, designers, and manufacturers for marine systems. This document does not address Lithium-ion batteries used in small portable electronic devices such as power tools, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and radios. This document covers lithium-ion battery types currently used in the industry (for example, lithium-ion cobalt oxide, lithium-ion manganese oxide, lithium-ion nickel manganese cobalt oxide, lithium-ion nickel cobalt aluminum oxide, lithium-ion iron phosphate, and lithium-ion titanate). For requirements applicable to conventional battery types (for example lead-acid, alkaline), refer to the requirements found in Part 4 of the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Marine Vessels. For requirements applicable to batteries used in underwater vehicles, refer to Subsection 10/11 of the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Underwater Vehicles, Systems and Hyperbaric Facilities. This document has been developed to facilitate the effective installation and operation of lithium-ion (Liion) batteries. The December 2025 edition includes requirements for battery systems with a rated energy between 2 kWh and less than 20 kWh in Section 1, additional clarifications regarding the required test list, updates of the cooling system prescriptive requirements in Section 2 and an update to Figure 2 in Appendix 1.
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Requirements for Use of Lithium-ion Batteries in the Marine and Offshore Industries
Language: English
Author: American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
Genre: Textbook, Requirements
Publisher: ABS
Edition: December, 2025
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 54
Description: The document establishes safety guidelines for owners, operators, shipyards, designers, and manufacturers
for marine systems. This document does not address Lithium-ion batteries used in small portable electronic
devices such as power tools, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and radios. This document covers lithium-ion
battery types currently used in the industry (for example, lithium-ion cobalt oxide, lithium-ion manganese
oxide, lithium-ion nickel manganese cobalt oxide, lithium-ion nickel cobalt aluminum oxide, lithium-ion
iron phosphate, and lithium-ion titanate). For requirements applicable to conventional battery types (for
example lead-acid, alkaline), refer to the requirements found in Part 4 of the ABS Rules for Building and
Classing Marine Vessels. For requirements applicable to batteries used in underwater vehicles, refer to
Subsection 10/11 of the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Underwater Vehicles, Systems and
Hyperbaric Facilities.
This document has been developed to facilitate the effective installation and operation of lithium-ion (Liion) batteries.
The December 2025 edition includes requirements for battery systems with a rated energy between 2 kWh
and less than 20 kWh in Section 1, additional clarifications regarding the required test list, updates of the
cooling system prescriptive requirements in Section 2 and an update to Figure 2 in Appendix 1.
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