scholarly journals The Role of Interfacial Thermal Resistance in Li-Ion Battery Thermal Management

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanbo Yang ◽  
Lei Cao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Thermal Management ◽  
Thermal Runaway ◽  
Interfacial Thermal Resistance ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Battery Packs ◽  
Flash Diffusivity ◽  
Battery Module

Abstract Temperature critically affects the performance, life and safety of lithium-ion batteries. Therefore, it is essential to understand heat generation and dissipation within individual battery cells and battery packs to plan a proper thermal management strategy. One of the key challenges is that interfacial heat transfer of a battery unit is difficult to quantify. The steady-state absolute method and the transient laser-flash-diffusivity method were employed to measure heat conductivities of battery layer stacks and individual battery layer separately. Results show flash diffusivity method gives higher thermal conductivity at both cross-plane and in-plane directions. The difference is primarily caused by interfacial thermal resistance so that it can be estimated by steady-state and transient measurements. To investigate the effects of interfacial thermal transport beyond individual cell level, a multiphysics battery model is used. The model is built upon a multi-scale multi-domain modeling framework for battery packs that accounts for the interplay across multiple physical phenomena. Benefits of a battery module using thermal management materials are quantified through numerical experiments. During a thermal runaway event, it is found interfacial thermal resistance can mitigate thermal runaway in a battery module by significantly reducing heat transfer between cells.

scholarly journals The Influence of Burial Depth and Soil Thermal Conductivity on Heat Transfer in Buried CO2 Pipelines for CCS: A Parametric Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babafemi Olugunwa ◽  
Julia Race ◽  
Tahsin Tezdogan
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Parametric Study ◽  
Flow Assurance ◽  
Burial Depth ◽  
Soil Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Dense Phase ◽  
Pipeline Transportation

Abstract Pipeline heat transfer modelling of buried pipelines is integral to the design and operation of onshore pipelines to aid the reduction of flow assurance challenges such as carbon dioxide (CO2) gas hydrate formation during pipeline transportation of dense phase CO2 in carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications. In CO2 pipelines for CCS, there are still challenges and gaps in knowledge in the pipeline transportation of supercritical CO2 due to its unique thermophysical properties as a single, dense phase liquid above its critical point. Although the design and operation of pipelines for bulk fluid transport is well established, the design stage is incomplete without the heat transfer calculations as part of the steady state hydraulic and flow assurance design stages. This paper investigates the steady state heat transfer in a buried onshore dense phase CO2 pipelines analytically using the conduction shape factor and thermal resistance method to evaluate for the heat loss from an uninsulated pipeline. A parametric study that critically analyses the effect of variation in pipeline burial depth and soil thermal conductivity on the heat transfer rate, soil thermal resistance and the overall heat transfer coefficient (OHTC) is investigated. This is done using a one-dimensional heat conduction model at constant temperature of the dense phase CO2 fluid. The results presented show that the influence of soil thermal conductivity and pipeline burial depth on the rate of heat transfer, soil thermal resistance and OHTC is dependent on the average constant ambient temperature in buried dense phase CO2 onshore pipelines. Modelling results show that there are significant effects of the ambient natural convection on the soil temperature distribution which creates a thermal influence region in the soil along the pipeline that cannot be ignored in the steady state modelling and as such should be modelled as a conjugate heat transfer problem during pipeline design.

Investigation of Interfacial Thermal Resistance on Nano-Structures Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navdeep Singh ◽  
Debjyoti Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Md Simulations ◽  
Interfacial Thermal Resistance ◽  
Filler Materials ◽  
Nano Structures ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Very High

Due to their very high thermal conductivity carbon nanotubes have been found to be an excellent material for thermal management. Experiments have shown that the heaters coated with carbon nanotubes increase the heat transfer by as much as 60%. Also when nanotubes are used as filler materials in composites, they tend to increase the thermal conductivity of the composites. But the increase in the heat transfer and the thermal conductivity has been found to be much less than the calculated values. This decrease has been attributed to the interfacial thermal resistance between the carbon nanotubes and the surrounding material. MD simulations were performed to study the interfacial thermal resistance between the carbon nanotubes and the liquid molecules. In the simulations, the nanotube is placed at the center of the simulation box and a temperature of 300K is imposed on the system. Then the temperature of the nanotube is raised instantaneously and the system is allowed to relax. From the temperature decay, the interfacial thermal resistance between the carbon nanotube and the liquid molecules is calculated. In this study the liquid molecules under investigation are n-heptane, n-tridecane and n-nonadecane.

scholarly journals Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Thermal Management of a Li-Ion Battery Pack

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Chalise ◽  
Krishna Shah ◽  
Ravi Prasher ◽  
Ankur Jain
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Management ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Battery Pack ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Li Ion Battery ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Battery Packs ◽  
Li Ion

Thermal management of Li-ion battery packs is a critical technological challenge that directly impacts safety and performance. Removal of heat generated in individual Li-ion cells into the ambient is a considerably complicated problem involving multiple heat transfer modes. This paper develops an iterative analytical technique to model conjugate heat transfer in coolant-based thermal management of a Li-ion battery pack. Solutions for the governing energy conservation equations for thermal conduction and convection are derived and coupled with each other in an iterative fashion to determine the final temperature distribution. The analytical model is used to investigate the dependence of the temperature field on various geometrical and material parameters. This work shows that the coolant flowrate required for effective cooling can be reduced significantly by improving the thermal conductivity of individual Li-ion cells. Further, this work helps understand key thermal–electrochemical trade-offs in the design of thermal management for Li-ion battery packs, such as the trade-off between temperature rise and energy storage density in the battery pack.

scholarly journals Analysis on start up and heat transfer performance of mercury heat pipe under alternating heating power

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Chongju Hu ◽  
Xiuxiang Zhang ◽  
Hongyan Wang ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Pinghua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Heat Pipe ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Steady State Temperature ◽  
Temperature Heat ◽  
Fluctuation Amplitude

Heat pipe may be affected by the high temperature heat source during operation, resulting in unsteady oscillation heating. In this paper, the influence of alternating power and period on the start-up and heat transfer performance of mercury heat pipe is studied by using the method of equivalent thermal resistance of heat pipe. The results are as follows:1) The start-up time of alternating power heating and steady-state power heating is basically equal; 2) For the alternating power heating, the steady-state temperature of heat pipe changes periodically, increasing the alternating period or the amplitude of alternating power will lead to the increase of the fluctuation amplitude of heat pipe temperature, and the influence of alternating period is greater than that of changing the amplitude of alternating power. 3) Under the condition of alternating power heating, the steady-state thermal resistance of heat pipe changes periodically. The fluctuation amplitude of steady-state thermal resistance of heat pipe increases with the increase of alternating period and alternating power amplitude, and the influence of alternating power amplitude is greater than that of alternating period.

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