Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Battery Management System and Electronic Control Unit of Neighborhood Electric Vehicle

• Published in: AETA 2016: Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences Vol. 415; pp. 205 - 211
• Main Authors: Patil, Mahesh Suresh, Bang, You-Ma, Seo, Jae-Hyeong, Kim, Dae-Wan, Cho, Bum-Dong, Lee, Moo-Yeon
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 01.01.2017; Springer; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
• Subjects: Automatic control engineering; Battery thermal management; Electronic control unit; ENERGY TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Heat transfer; Neighborhood electric vehicle; Power networks, systems, stations & plants
• ISBN: 3319509039; 9783319509037
• ISSN: 1876-1100; 1876-1119
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50904-4_20

The increased need for mobility has necessitated a tremendous growth in transportation industry. The consumption of oil has increased many-fold leading to rapid deterioration of fossil fuel resources and increased greenhouse gas emissions. This has led to the finding alternative source of energy for vehicles in terms of battery based electric vehicles. Although electric vehicles are promising option for transportation, many issues like specific power, cost, vehicle range, battery thermal management etc. needs to be resolved efficiently in order to compete with internal combustion engine based vehicles. In this paper, an experimental study has been carried out to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of battery thermal management system and electronic control unit of neighborhood electric vehicle. The temperatures are measured at critical locations with varying velocity and varying altitude.