Technical gazette, Vol. 27 No. 2, 2020.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20190731141257
Thermal Performance of Heat Pipe Array in Battery Thermal Management
Chaoyi Wan
; School of Automobile and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, Jiangsu, P. R. China
Abstract
In the present study, the thermal performance of a power battery cooling system using copper tubes and heat pipes was compared. The effects of coolant flow rate, coolant inlet temperature, and input power were discussed by numerical methods. The numerical computation results showed that heat pipe could more significantly enhance the heat transfer performance of the battery cooling system than the copper rod. Within the scope of this study, the heat pipe reduced the maximum temperature by 41,6% - 60,9%. The distributions of the temperature ratio of the battery surface, together with the heat flux and streamlines around the heat pipe condenser were also illustrated.
Keywords
battery thermal management; heat pipe; heat transfer enhancement; temperature difference
Hrčak ID:
236790
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Publication date:
15.4.2020.
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