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  • Master Thesis
    Numerical and Experimental Investigation of an Electric Vehicle Battery Module Thermal Management System
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Gediksiz, Çağlar; Çetkin, Erdal
    Today, electric vehicles play an essential role in preventing pollution from fossil sources. Therefore, it is vital to develop battery technology in electric vehicles. The biggest problem experienced is the thermal runaways, which is a phenomenon that may cause burning and explosions following the decrease in battery capacities. The thermal runaway problem can be solved by using the thermal management system to keep the temperature range under control. In this study, a 6.7 kWh battery pack was produced. Battery pack operation consists of two parts, mechanical and thermal. In the mechanical part, battery pack assembly and drop tests, one of the mechanical tests, were carried out. At the end of the battery pack assembly, voltage measurements were made, and the accuracy of the assembly was demonstrated. Besides, a numerical and experimental study supported drop tests. As a result of this study, the battery case did not show permanent deformation (2.529x 108 N/m2) as suggested in the numerical experiments (1.263x 108 N/m2). Discharge characteristics and battery module model were discussed in the thermal management part. The information in the literature confirmed the discharge characteristic. The gap between the battery cells reached its most efficient value at 8 mm. In the developed battery module, thermal management was attempted using a heat plate and a cooling pipe. According to the numerical results, the battery module reaches 311.37K at 10C discharge. In the experimental process, the battery pack was charged with 15 amps and discharged with 30 amps. Moreover, the temperature values reached a maximum of 31 degrees. In the experiment on electric vehicles, a maximum discharge level of 255 A was observed. In this experiment, the battery pack reached a maximum of 36 degrees.
  • Master Thesis
    Numerical and Experimental Investigations of an Air-Cooled Battery Thermal Management System
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Göçmen, Sinan; Çetkin, Erdal
    Electric vehicles play an integral role in eliminating pollution related to transportation, especially if electricity is generated via renewable sources. However, storing electricity onboard requires many battery cells. If the temperature of the cells is not strictly regulated, their capacity decreases in time, and they may burn or explode due to thermal runaway. Battery thermal management systems emerged for safe operations by keeping the battery cell temperatures under limit values. However, the current solutions do not yield uniform temperature distribution for all the cells in a pack. Here, we document that constant temperature distribution can be achieved with uniform coolant distribution to the channels located between batteries. To this end, we performed both numerical and experimental investigations. The design process of the developed battery pack begins with a design used in current packs. Later, how the shape of the distributor channel affects flow uniformity is documented. Then, the design complexity was increased to satisfy the flow uniformity condition, which is essential for temperature uniformity. The design was altered based on a constructal design methodology with an iterative exhaustive search approach. The uncovered constructal design yields a uniform coolant distribution with a maximum of 0.81% flow rate deviation along channels. The developed design is palpable and easy to manufacture relative to the tapered manifold designs. The results also document that the peak temperature difference between the cells decreases from a maximum of 12 K to 0.4 K. Additionally, the developed design was simulated by using Newman, Tiedeman, Gu, and Kim (NTGK) electrochemical battery model, which provides more realistic results due to its heat generation approach in a battery cell. The electrochemical model was simulated with fluid and heat flow simultaneously at the battery pack level. The accuracy of numerical studies is validated by experimental work. The results show that the peak temperature can be kept under the desired operational temperature with a minimum deviation in the temperature difference.