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Experimental analysis of the influence of ambient temperature for a Loop Heat Pipe based Battery Thermal Management System

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In Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS), Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) may act as thermal vectors connecting the bottom of the battery pack with the remote chiller of the EV’s HVAC system, whilst graphite sheets allow to achieve satisfactory temperature homogenization of the cell surface, containing the added system weight and thermally isolating one cell to the other. This design was developed aiming to improve on fast charge timings, all-electric range and to reduce costs and complexity. Preliminary studies revealed the potential of this innovative passive BTMS for providing better performance than an active BTMS using a liquid cold plate. Taking a further step in the direction of practical applications, the present work investigates how the proposed innovative BTMS performs in different ambient temperatures by showing the results of several fast charge and heating tests inside an environmental thermal chamber, with temperatures ranging between −20 and 50 °C. The results show that the considered LHP worked in all the tested conditions, and that the heating delay brought by the LHP during heating phase (i.e., final temperature 1.2 °C lower than without the LHP) was surpassed by the temperature reduction during the cooling phases (i.e., 3.2 °C temperature reduction at high temperatures).

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Abbreviations

BTMS:

battery thermal management system

EV:

electric vehicle

GHG:

green house gases

GWP:

global warming potential

HFCH:

highway–fast charge–highway

HVAC:

heating and ventilation air conditioning

LHP:

loop heat pipe

LPM:

lumped parameter model

ODP:

ozone depletion potential

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The authors would like to thank the Advanced Engineering Centre at the University of Brighton for the financial support.

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    Marco Bernagozzi, Anastasios Georgoulas, Nicolas Miché & Marco Marengo

  2. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, 27100, Italy

    Marco Marengo

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Bernagozzi, M., Georgoulas, A., Miché, N. et al. Experimental analysis of the influence of ambient temperature for a Loop Heat Pipe based Battery Thermal Management System. Exp. Comput. Multiph. Flow (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42757-023-0185-5

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