TITLE:
Analysis of Air-Cooling Battery Thermal Management System for Formula Student Car
AUTHORS:
Leone Martellucci, Kodekondla Kalyan Krishna
KEYWORDS:
Battery, Thermal Management System, Air-Cooling, Formula Student
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Transportation Technologies,
Vol.11 No.3,
July
28,
2021
ABSTRACT: Designing
a good energy storage system represents the most important challenge for spreading over a large scale of electric
mobility. Proper thermal management
is critical and guarantees optimum working temperature in a battery
pack. In the various battery thermal management technologies, air cooling is one
of the most used solutions. The following work analyzes the cooling performance
of the air-cooling thermal management system by choosing appropriate system
parameters and analyzes using CFD simulations for accurate thermal modeling.
These parameters include the influence of airflow rate and cell spacing on the configuration. The outcome of the simulations is compared using parameters like maximum temperature, and temperature
distribution in the battery module to obtain optimum results for further
applications. Finally, the simulations of the optimal solution will be compared
to experimental results for validation.