Heat and mass transfer

A Lightweight Compact Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management System Integratable Directly with EV Air Conditioning Systems

  • LIN Bichao ,
  • CEN Jiwen ,
  • JIANG Fangming
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  • 1. Laboratory of Advanced Energy Systems, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
    2. CAS Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou 510640, China 
    3. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New and Renewable Energy Research and Development, Guangzhou 510640, China
    4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Online published: 2023-12-04

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Financial support received from the China National Key R&D Project (2018YFB0905303), the Guangdong Science and Technology Department (2017B010120003, 2015A030308019, 2016A030313172), and the Guangzhou Scientific and Technological Development Plan (201804020020) is gratefully acknowledged.

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022

Abstract

This paper discusses an improved thermal management system to ameliorate the performance of lithium-ion battery storage systems for electric vehicles (EVs) applications. A compact and lightweight cold plate is designed and fabricated to fit 18650-type lithium-ion batteries, using aluminum-finned copper tubes. A dynamic temperature PID (proportional, integral, differential) control algorithm for electronic expansion valves is developed to study using EV air conditioning refrigerant, R134a, to control battery modules’ temperature with this compact and lightweight thermal management system. The experimental results show that the proposed battery thermal management system can effectively control the battery module’s temperature. In addition, during 1C discharge, when the PID temperature algorithm control scheme is used, the maximum temperature difference across the battery module peaks at less than 4°C, and the maximum temperature within the battery module is less than 36°C.

Cite this article

LIN Bichao , CEN Jiwen , JIANG Fangming . A Lightweight Compact Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management System Integratable Directly with EV Air Conditioning Systems[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2022 , 31(6) : 2363 -2373 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-022-1690-x

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