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Development of Energy-Saving Battery Pre-Cooling System for Electric Vehicles

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  • Tong-Bou Chang

    (Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan)

  • Yi-Zong Xiao

    (Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan)

  • You-Fan Liu

    (Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan)

Abstract

The performance, lifetime, and safety of electric vehicle batteries are strongly dependent on their temperature. Consequently, effective and energy-saving battery cooling systems are required. This study proposes a secondary-loop liquid pre-cooling system which extracts heat energy from the battery and uses a fin-and-tube heat exchanger to dissipate this energy to the ambient surroundings. The liquid then passes through a chiller to complete the cooling loop. The air-conditioning system is also used to cool the battery only if the temperature of the cooling water exceeds the maximum permissible temperature. The cooling load of the air-conditioning system is thus greatly reduced. The feasibility of the proposed cooling system is demonstrated experimentally under four simulated seasonal environmental conditions, namely high summer (35 °C), mean summer (30 °C), spring and fall (20 °C), and winter (7 °C). The results show that the pre-cooling system can dissipate 1000 W of battery heat in high summer, 2000 W in low summer, 3167 W in spring and fall, and more than 4000 W in winter. In other words, the pre-cooling system greatly reduces the cooling load of the air-conditioning system, and hence significantly reduces its energy consumption.

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  • Tong-Bou Chang & Yi-Zong Xiao & You-Fan Liu, 2023. "Development of Energy-Saving Battery Pre-Cooling System for Electric Vehicles," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-15, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:17:p:13182-:d:1231286
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