Effective cooling methods for

Electric vehicle Batteries.

By : Jay Patel
Types of cooling methods:

★ Phase cooling material

★ Fin Cooling

★ Air cooling

★ Liquid cooling(indirect and direct)

 Phase cooling material

❖ Paraffin waxes are the most common PCM for electronics thermal management
because they have a high heat of fusion per unit weight, have a large melting
point selection, provide dependable cycling, are non-corrosive and are
chemically inert.

❖ Phase-Change-Material' (PCM) is able to store thermal energy through change of

its physical condition from solid to liquid without heating-up
 FIN Cooling

❖ Cooling fins rely on conduction to diffuse the heat away from what is being cooled.
The fins are designed to increase the surface area with another liquid (air for
example). Here the heat is transfered using convection, cooling the fins and warming
the liquid.

❖ Cooling fins dissipate heat from the wide face of a cell. A single fin is placed
between two adjacent cells.
AIR Cooling

❖ In the air cooling system, the heat is dissipated directly to the air after being
conducted through the cylinder walls. Air cooling systems have fins and flanges on
the outer surfaces of the cylinders.

❖ As air runs over the surface, it will carry away the heat emitted by the pack.
Air cooling is simple and easy, but not very efficient and relatively crude
compared to liquid cooling
Liquid Cooling

❖ Liquid cooling is the only remaining option that does not consume too much parasitic
power, delivers cooling requirements, and fits compactly and easily into the battery
pack. Tesla, BMW i-3 and i-8, Ford Focus and Jaguar i-Pace, lithium-ion batteries all
use some form of liquid cooling system.

❖ There are different coolant requirements for direct liquid cooling systems. In
systems where the battery will be directly exposed to the coolant, such as with
Fuel Cell Vehicles or direct liquid cooling, the coolant needs to be a low to no
conductivity fluid.
Thank You