Thermal Performance Improvement for Different Strategies of Battery Thermal Management Systems Combined with Jute—A Comparison Study

Rekabra Youssef, Md Sazzad Hosen, Jiacheng He, Mohammed AL-Saadi, Joeri Van Mierlo and Maitane Berecibar
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Rekabra Youssef: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Md Sazzad Hosen: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Jiacheng He: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Mohammed AL-Saadi: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Joeri Van Mierlo: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Maitane Berecibar: Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Group (MOBI), Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Jute is a cheap, eco-friendly, widely available material well-known for its cooling properties. In electric vehicles (EVs), dissipating a huge amount of the heat generated from lithium-ion batteries with an efficient, light, and low-power consumption battery thermal management system (BTMS) is required. In our previous study, jute fibers were proposed and investigated as a novel medium to enhance the cooling efficiency of air-based battery thermal management systems. In this paper, as the first attempt, jute was integrated with a phase change material (PCM) passive cooling system, and the thermal performance of a 50 Ah prismatic battery was studied. Temperature evolution, uniformity, and cooling efficiency were investigated. A comparison between the thermal behavior of the air-based BTMS and PCM-assisted cooling system was performed. The results indicated that adding jute to the BTMS increased the cooling efficiency and especially decreased the temperature development. Furthermore, the temperature difference (Δ T ) efficiency was enhanced by 60% when integrating jute with PCM, and temperature uniformity improved by 3% when integrating jute with air-based BTMS. This article compared the integration of jute with active cooling and passive cooling; thus, it shed light on the importance of jute as a novel, eco-friendly, lightweight, cheap, available, and nontoxic material added to two strategies of BTMS. The setup was physically made and experimentally studied for the purpose of BTMS optimization.

Keywords: jute; electric vehicles; thermal management; evaporative cooling; passive cooling; air cooling; phase change material (PCM); lithium-ion battery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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