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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 145-151.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1093.2014.02.001

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A Lumped-parameter Model of Battery Pack Heat Transfer in Electric Vehicles

WANG Fa-cheng, WANG Zi-dong, HU Dao-zhong, TONG Yu-qi, GAO Hong-bo, CHEN Fen   

  1. (State-assigned Electric Vehicle Power Battery Testing Center, China North Vehicle Research Institute, Beijing 100072, China)
  • Received:2012-11-28 Revised:2012-11-28 Online:2014-03-25
  • Contact: WANG Fa-cheng E-mail:fachengw@163.com

Abstract: With the booming development of the modern vehicle industry, the safety problem caused by heat generation of battery pack is more and more obvious, an effective heat transfer system needs to be developed. Based on analyzing the average heat generation rate of a battery pack, a heat transfer simplified model of battery pack is established using a lumped-parameter method. This model is used to analyze the following parameters of an actual battery pack: time interval, fluid temperature, battery pack average temperature, transient heat transfer power, and total heat. The calculated results can be used to evaluate whether the heat transfer system is effective, or make the heat transfer system reasonable by choosing the optimum heat transfer parameters. The results also indicate that the strategy of applying fluid with constant temperature in the heat transfer system is not the best.

Key words: heat, electric vehicle, battery pack, lumped-parameter model, heat transfer

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