| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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2D Materials: Preparation, Properties, Modeling & Applications
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| Presentation Title |
Application of Phase Change Materials in the Thermal Management of a LiFePO4 Battery Pack in a Cold Temperatures Environment |
| Author(s) |
Seyed Mojtaba Sadrameli, Yazdan Azizi |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Seyed Mojtaba Sadrameli |
| Abstract Scope |
The performance and life cycle of lithium-ion batteries are seriously affected by their surface temperatures during charging and discharging processes when a large amount of heat is continuously produced inside the cells causing surface temperature enhancement. One of the applications of phase change materials is to control the surface temperature of thermal processes. These materials absorb extra heat during the charging and discharging process (melting) and release into the environment once the system is turned off (solidification).
A composite of a phase change material and aluminum wire mesh plates has been used for the thermal management of a LiFePO4 battery pack in cold temperature environments. Aluminum wire mesh plates have been applied to the PCM for thermal conductivity enhancement and to improve the system's temperature uniformity. Preliminary experimental runs have been performed on the charge and discharge of the batteries at different rates of 1–3 C to obtain the maximum surface temperature of the cells. Due to the page limit of the manuscript, only the discharge results are presented here. The results show that using the PCM and aluminum wire mesh plates between the cells can reduce the surface temperature significantly and causes better performance for the battery pack. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Aluminum, Energy Conversion and Storage, Composites |