Experimental investigation of the thermal performance of heat pipe assisted phase change material for battery thermal management system

By Qiqiu Huang, Xinxi Li, Guoqing Zhang, Jiangyun Zhang, F. He, Yang Li. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018

245 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract In this study, a serials phase change materials (PCM) based battery thermal management systems for cylindrical lithium battery module were designed, which were pure PCM, heat pipe coupled with air assisted PCM (PCM/HP-Air), heat pipe coupled with liquid assisted PCM (PCM/HP-Liquid), respectively. The PCM with large heat storage capacity and heat pipe coupled with liquid cooling exhibit excellent thermal performance for battery module, which is an effective and reliable method with relative longer working time and appropriate temperature. The results by experiments at different discharge rates indicated that heat pipe played an important role in transporting the heat promptly and balancing the temperature uniformly for PCM based battery module. What’s more, the heat pipe coupled with liquid cooling presented a remarkable controlling temperature capacity, the highest temperature could be maintained at 50 °C during 3 C discharge rate. Meanwhile, a lower temperature difference of the PCM/HP-Liquid than the other two modules was obtained by nearly 3 °C, which displayed a prominent balancing temperature effectiveness. It could be concluded that the above results can provide perspectives in designing and optimizing battery thermal management system.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7be6467472fc52897c600d763157a888802728d9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Automotive Engineering

1. Xiangming He
2. Zheng Liang
3. Baohua Li
4. Xuning Feng

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Jilei Liu
2. Xiangming He
3. Zheng Liang
4. Baohua Li
5. Xuning Feng

Citations in the corpus

• A review of lithium-ion battery safety concerns: The issues, strategies, and testing standards (2020, background): “A direct cooling and heat management system uses the phasechange heat of a refrigerant to reduce the battery temperature effectively and improve the consistency of the battery pack temperature [145].”