Thermal performance predictions for an HFE-7000 direct flow boiling cooled battery thermal management system for electric vehicles

• Published in: Energy conversion and management Vol. 207; p. 112569
• Main Authors: Wang, Yan-Feng, Wu, Jiang-Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2020; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: absorption; batteries; Battery thermal management system; Boiling; Computational fluid dynamics; Contact resistance; Convection; Cooling performance; Direct flow; Electric contacts; Electric vehicles; energy conversion; Flammability; Forced convection; Furuncles; Heat; Heat transfer; Hydrofluoroether refrigerant; liquids; management systems; Modules; Nucleate boiling; Nucleate boiling heat transfer; Perturbation; prediction; Rechargeable batteries; Refrigerants; surfaces; temperature; Temperature gradients; Thermal contact resistance; Thermal management; Thermal resistance; Turbulent flow; Two phase flow; velocity; Nucleate boiling heat transfer; Battery thermal management system; Cooling performance; Hydrofluoroether refrigerant

•A novel refrigerant-based battery thermal management system is proposed.•Temperature distributions and boiling characteristics are predicted.•The maximum temperature is inversely correlated with refrigerant inlet velocity.•Temperature uniformity is predominantly affected by nucleate boiling heat tr...