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A Research on Design and Optimization of a Cooling Plate for Battery of an Electric Vehicle

Satej Dileep Vedpathak, Pratik Pradip Mandavkar, Omkar Jaydev Bhatt, Vineet Alok Somani

Abstract


With advancements and innovations in electrical vehicles, thermal management of the batteries has been the key focus of the study. As evident by previous analysis administrated, the liquid cooling methodology has replaced commonplace air-cooling methodology. Among the subsequent study a number three iron phosphate battery beside two cooling plates was accustomed vogue battery module. One battery numerical model was first created and verified as a result of the idea of the module heat transfer model. Orthogonal vogue technique was incorporated whereas coming up with the thermal model to optimize the foremost characteristics of battery module, i.e., Battery gap, form of cooling channels among the cooling plate. Once these secondary optimizations the model was used additional to optimize the primary objective that is mathematics of the cooling plate. Finally, the optimized mathematics was rebuilt among the thermal model of the module for analysis. The comparison showed that among the optimized mathematics of the model the gradient was reduced by 9.5% and thus the pressure drop was reduced by 16.88% among the cooling plate. All this was achieved by increasing the cross section and form of cooling channels of the cooling plate water once the speed of the coolant was constant.


Keywords


EV, electric vehicle, thermal management of the battery, lithium iron phosphate battery, cooling channel, battery pack

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