Thermal design and simulation of mini-channel cold plate for water cooled large sized prismatic lithium-ion battery
By S. Panchal, Rocky Khasow, Ibrahim Dincer, Martin Agelin-Chaab, Roydon Andrew Fraser, Michael W. Fowler. 2017
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Abstract This paper has presented a comparative study of the temperature and velocity distributions within the mini-channel cold plates placed on a prismatic lithium-ion battery cell using experimental and numerical techniques. The study was conducted for water cooling methods at 1C and 2C discharge rates and different operating temperatures of 5 °C, 15 °C, and 25 °C. A total of nineteen thermocouples were used for this experimental work, and were purposefully placed at different locations. Out of nineteen, ten T-type thermocouples were placed on the principal surface of the battery, and four K-type thermocouples were used to measure water inlet and outlet temperature. Computationally, the k-e model in ANSYS Fluent was used to simulate the flow in a mini-channel cold plate, and the data was validated with the experimental data for temperature profiles. The present results show that increased discharge rates and increased operating temperature results in increased temperature of the cold plates. Furthermore, the thermocouple sensors nearest the electrodes (anode and cathode) measured the higher temperatures than the sensors located at the center of the battery surface.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- A Review of Phase Change Materials for the Thermal Management and Isothermalisation of Lithium-Ion Cells (2019, background): “Liquid-cooling Several studies [90, 91, 77, 79, 92, 93, 94, 17, 95, 11, 96, 93, 10] report that air cooling fails in case of high DR and large battery packs, leading to a necessary implementation of liquid cooling.”
- A review of novel thermal management systems for batteries (2018, background): “Panchal et al(51) had previously carried out experimental and theoretical modeling of the mini‐channel cooling plate.(51,61-63) The results of Panchal et al(51) are as follows:”
- Thermal management performances of PCM/water cooling-plate using for lithium-ion battery module based on non-uniform internal heat source (2017, methodology): “[22] designed and optimized the battery systems with mini-channel cold plates placed on the prismatic lithium-ion battery cell.”