where:

This is likely what you mean by "Flash Cycling." In advanced industrial systems (like ammonia or large DX systems), engineers separate the flash gas rather than sending it through the evaporator.

If you ignore the flash cycling side, you run into specific problems:

There are two ways the industry looks at "Flash Cycling":

Conventional lithium-ion battery (LIB) degradation is well-categorized: cycle aging (loss of lithium inventory), calendar aging (SEI growth), and mechanical cracking (volume expansion). However, these models assume a relatively uniform current distribution and timescales (seconds to hours) that allow ionic diffusion to equilibrate.

[Generated AI] Journal: Journal of Power Sources & Transient Electrochemistry (Hypothetical) Date: April 14, 2026

High-voltage tunneling during erase cycles generates traps in the tunnel oxide layer.