Large scale immersion bath for isothermal testing of lithium-ion cells
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Testing of lithium-ion batteries depends greatly on accurate temperature control in order to generate reliable experimental data. Reliable data is essential to parameterise and validate battery models, which are essential to speed up and reduce the cost of battery pack design for multiple applications. There are many methods to control the temperature of cells during testing, such as forced air convection, liquid cooling or conduction cooling using cooling plates. Depending on the size and number of cells, conduction cooling can be a complex and costly option. Although easier to implement, forced air cooling is not very effective and can introduce significant errors if used for battery model parametrisation. Existing commercially available immersion baths are not cost effective (∼£3320) and are usually too small to hold even one large pouch cell. Here, we describe an affordable but effective cooling method using immersion cooling. This bath is designed to house eight large lithium-ion pouch cells (300mm x 350mm), each immersed in a base oil cooling fluid (150L total volume). The total cost of this setup is only £1670. The rig is constructed using a heater, chilling unit, and a series of pumps. This immersion bath can maintain a temperature within 0.5 °C of the desired set point, it is operational within the temperature range 5 – 55 °C and has been validated at a temperature range of 25 – 45 °C.
Date Issued
2022-10
Date Acceptance
2022-09-18
Citation
HardwareX, 2022, 12, pp.1-15
ISSN
2468-0672
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
15
Journal / Book Title
HardwareX
Volume
12
Copyright Statement
2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sponsor
Innovate UK
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222001043?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
104180
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Instruments & Instrumentation
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Engineering
Materials Science
Immersion cooling
Lithium-ion
Battery
Oil
Temperature control
Thermal management
PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL
THERMAL-GRADIENTS
BATTERY
PARAMETERIZATION
PERFORMANCE
DEGRADATION
DESIGN
TAB
Battery
Immersion cooling
Lithium-ion
Oil
Temperature control
Thermal management
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e00359
Date Publish Online
2022-09-20