Thermal management of lithium ion batteries using graphene coated nickel foam saturated with phase change materials

Hussain, Abid; Abidi, Irfan Haider; Tso, Chi Yan; Chan, Ka Chung; Luo, Zhengtang; Chao, Christopher Yu Hang

doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2017.09.019

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“…The lower thermal conductivity of OPCMs reduces the rate of heat transfer, which causes increase in temperature gradient and insensitivity to temperature changes across the system boundaries. OPCMs, with potential advantage as TES materials, are being developed for applications including air conditioning, ie, natural air cooling, cold thermal storage and absorption refrigeration, waste heat recovery, solar energy storage, thermal regulating fabric, passive heating of building, heat pipes, desalination, thermal management of electronic devices and electric vehicle batteries, spacecraft, and other integrated thermal control systems such as trombe wall, PCM‐filled wallboards, shutter, concrete, under floor heating systems, ceiling boards, and hot water supply . However, the leakage issue and lower thermal conductivity of OPCMs causes harm with interacting medium and results in energy efficiency losses of the thermal system.…”

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The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review

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Summary With advancement in technology—nanotechnology, various thermal energy storage (TES) materials have been invented and modified with promising thermal transport properties. Solid‐liquid phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively used as TES materials for various energy applications due to their highly favourable thermal properties. The class of PCMs, organic phase change materials (OPCMs), has more potential and advantages over inorganic phase change materials (IPCMs), having high phase change enthalpy. However, OPCMs possess low thermal conductivity as well as density and suffer leakage during the melting phase. The encapsulation technologies (ie, micro and nano) of PCMs, with organic and inorganic materials, have a tendency to enhance the thermal conductivity, effective heat transfer, and leakage issues as TES materials. The encapsulation of PCMs involves several technologies to develop at both micro and nano levels, called micro‐encapsulated PCMs (micro‐PCM) and nano‐encapsulated PCMs (nano‐PCM), respectively. This study covers a wide range of preparation methods, thermal and morphological characteristics, stability, applications, and future perspective of micro‐/nano‐PCMs as TES materials. The potential applications, such as solar‐to‐thermal and electrical‐to‐thermal conversions, thermal management, building, textile, foam, medical industry of micro‐ and nano‐PCMs, are reviewed critically. Finally, this review paper highlights the emerging future research paths of micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage.

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“…The thermal management performance of PCM/expanded graphite at low temperature were studied by Ling et al, 11 and the results showed that with the lower-thermal conductivity, the temperature-dropping process would be extended, as our previous work reported. 12 Furthermore, the nickel foam, 13 Graphene-coated nickel foam, 14 expanded graphite, 15 and copper foam 16,17 were employed in BTM as well.…”

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Investigation on the thermal performance of phase change material/porous medium-based battery thermal management in pore scale

2018

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Summary With the latent heat, the phase change material (PCM) is widely used in battery thermal management (BTM) to control the temperature. In this paper, the porous medium is employed to enhance the heat transfer of PCM. The lattice Boltzmann model for PCM/porous medium in pore scale is considered, where the mesh system with porous medium (fixed point) is generated by quartet structure generation set (QSGS) method. The effects of the Rayleigh number and porosity on the heat transfer process in BTM are investigated. The results show that decreasing the porosity will accelerate the melting rate. When the porosities are 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, and 0.6, the total melting times are decreased by 23.7%, 43.3%, 58.0%, and 75.4%, compared with pure PCM. The heat is transferred through the high‐conductivity framework. The natural convection in the porous medium is weak, and the conduction is the dominated heat transfer. As a result, the area of solid–liquid interface will be increased, and the heat‐transferred rate is accelerated. However, when the Rayleigh number is raised to 105, applying the porous medium with porosity of 0.9 will increase the total melting time, resulted from the stronger natural convection of PCM. The present study is helpful for design of PCM/porous medium‐based BTM.

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“…However, the low thermal conductivity (generally below 0.5 W m −1 K −1 ) of pure PCM makes them response tardily to the heat surge of the battery pack, especially when a thick layer of PCM is used . Therefore, conductive fillers and matrices were researched to enhance the thermal behavior of PCM . With having high thermal conductivities, graphene and carbon fiber were mainly used as the conductive filler to improve the thermal conductivity of PCM.…”

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“…17 Therefore, conductive fillers and matrices were researched to enhance the thermal behavior of PCM. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] With having high thermal conductivities, graphene and carbon fiber were mainly used as the conductive filler to improve the thermal conductivity of PCM. For example, Goli et al 19 found that the thermal conductivity of the composite could easily reach above 10 W m −1 K −1 with 1 wt.% graphene added.…”

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Performance assessment of a passive core cooling design for cylindrical lithium-ion batteries

Zhao

Liu

2018

Int J Energy Res

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Summary Battery thermal management (BTM) system is an indispensable component for large‐sized lithium‐ion battery packs used in aerospace and automotive applications. Besides providing a proper temperature range for batteries to operate, thus improving their efficiency, lifespan, and safety, the BTM system also needs to be well designed with considering the cost, weight, and practicability. In this paper, an internal passive BTM system is proposed for the cylindrical Li‐ion batteries. The design embeds a phase change material (PCM) filled mandrel inside the battery to achieve the cooling effect. A thermal test cell is first fabricated and tested in a wind tunnel under different cooling scenarios, and it is also used to verify a numerical thermal model. The proposed BTM system is further examined through the model and found to be able to create a preferable environment for batteries to operate. Specifically, the core BTM system consumes less PCM and achieves lower temperature rises and more uniform temperature distributions than an external BTM system. The proposed design can also exert its full latent heat to manage the heat generated from the battery without having a thermally conductive matrix, which is usually composite with PCM in external BTM systems. In addition, experiments show that the battery equipped with the proposed BTM system is ready for intensive cycling tests.

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Thermal management of lithium ion batteries using graphene coated nickel foam saturated with phase change materials

Cited by 227 publications

References 43 publications

The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review

The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review

Investigation on the thermal performance of phase change material/porous medium-based battery thermal management in pore scale

Performance assessment of a passive core cooling design for cylindrical lithium-ion batteries

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