TY - JOUR
T1 - Computational flow analysis of different streamline cooling plates for thermal management of lithium-ion battery
AU - Shetty, Divya D.
AU - Venugopal, Vivek
AU - R, Pradeep
AU - Zuber, Mohammad
AU - Anjum Badruddin, Irfan
AU - Kini, Chandrakant
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors received no direct funding for this research. The authors thank the Department of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy, Manipal for providing the computational facility to carry out this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Li-ion batteries used in electric vehicles widely employ cooling plates with mini channels for thermal management purpose. Researches on battery thermal management systems of electric vehicles are largely focused on improving the cooling efficiency hence obtaining temperature uniformity across the cells. In the present work, a streamline configuration has been incorporated in cooling plate design to enhance the performance of mini-channel cooling plate. These kinds of configurations are usually found in submarine and aerospace applications. By adopting streamline design the flow resistance is found to reduce. Five plates with different number of channels (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) were computationally studied at a coolant (water and ethylene glycol mixture) flow rate of 0.002 kg/s. The maximum cell temperature is decreased by 7.8% for 7-channel configuration. Temperature uniformity is also found to improve using this design. The results reveal that this design is able to maintain the temperature of Li-ion battery in safe operating range. Hence this could be a better solution for thermal management of Li-ion batteries in future.
AB - The Li-ion batteries used in electric vehicles widely employ cooling plates with mini channels for thermal management purpose. Researches on battery thermal management systems of electric vehicles are largely focused on improving the cooling efficiency hence obtaining temperature uniformity across the cells. In the present work, a streamline configuration has been incorporated in cooling plate design to enhance the performance of mini-channel cooling plate. These kinds of configurations are usually found in submarine and aerospace applications. By adopting streamline design the flow resistance is found to reduce. Five plates with different number of channels (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) were computationally studied at a coolant (water and ethylene glycol mixture) flow rate of 0.002 kg/s. The maximum cell temperature is decreased by 7.8% for 7-channel configuration. Temperature uniformity is also found to improve using this design. The results reveal that this design is able to maintain the temperature of Li-ion battery in safe operating range. Hence this could be a better solution for thermal management of Li-ion batteries in future.
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U2 - 10.1080/23311916.2022.2048996
DO - 10.1080/23311916.2022.2048996
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126606719
SN - 2331-1916
VL - 9
JO - Cogent Engineering
JF - Cogent Engineering
IS - 1
M1 - 2048996
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