Thermal Management of Electric Vehicles Batteries

Presented by: Syed Muneef Ali Shah

Supervisor: Dr. Majid Ali
Co-supervisor: Dr. Adeel Javed
GEC members: Dr. Hassan Abdullah
Dr. Muhammad Zubair
Dr. Arsalan Khawaja

US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), NUST.

 Contents
• Introduction
• Problem Statement
• Literature Review
• Objectives
• Timeline
• Expected Results
 Introduction
• Battery: Chemical energy into
electrical energy
• Cell ~building block of battery
• Battery combination~ series
Battery Working
Li-ion Battery Discharge Curves
Battery capacity increases with increase in temperature

• The curves efficiency shows battery improves with higher

temperatures but it shorten battery’s life.
Different Battery Thermal Management Systems(BTS)

Combined Liquid System

Liquid Cooling and Heating

Air Cooling and Heating Direct Refrigerant Cooling and Heating

Proposed Thermal Management System
Phase Change Material (PCM)
is a substance capable of storing and
releasing large amounts of energy.

PCM layers inserted around Cell

Problem Statement

• Analysis of Heat Generation patterns inside a battery

through CFD
• Proposing Thermal Management System to keep the
battery under favorable conditions
 Literature Review
Authors Year Findings

X. Duan, G.F. Two different PCM designs for the temperature management.
2010
Naterer Both designs are effective in maintaining the heater temperature

Yonghuang, Lip
Deal with the large amount of heat generation within batteries
Huat Saw
2015 during fast charging and aggressive operating conditions of EV.
Yixiang Shi,
Efforts were undertaken to optimize the thermal performance of a
Andrew Tay
heat pipe thermal management system.

Jiateng Zhao, Influence of channel quantity, mass flow rate, flow direction and
Zhonghao Rao, 2015 entrance size on the heat dissipation performance of the LCC were
Yimin Li studied.
 Literature Review
Authors Year Findings

Ibrahim Dinçer, 2016 Evaluation of different thermal Management Systems for Electric
Halil S. Hamut, Vehicles Batteries are performed
Nader Javani

Bahman 2015 This paper reviewed various theoretical models used to simulate
Shabani and the thermal behavior of ESS to a high degree of accuracy. These
Manu Biju models apply the concept of conservation of energy to solve for
the temperature distribution in ESS.

Z. H. Rao, S. F. 2014 The time of heating a battery with PCM was shortened
Wang & Y. L. significantly compared with air heating.
Zhang
Objectives
• Literature review of heat generation and thermal management
1 systems in batteries

• CFD modeling of Phase Change Material for Thermal

2 Management in Battery

• Study of temperature variation of Phase Change Material during

3 Charging/Discharging

• Performance Analysis of battery module

4
Timeline
Activities To Be Completed By
Sep-Oct Nov-Dec Jan-Feb Mar-Apr May-June July-August

Thermal Proposed
Literature
Management TMS
Review
System(TMS) Technique

Software ANSYS
Tools (CFD)

Battery with
inserted PCM
Geometry
layer
Geometry
Modeling in Results and
CFD
CFD optimization
analysis

Validation of
Validation simulation results
with experimental
Thesis
Report
Submission
Expected Results
• Improvement in charging and discharging time
• Enhancement in discharge Capacity
• Slowing the degeneration process
• Avoiding any serious incident
• Increase in overall efficiency
Thank you