Engineering-Oriented Modeling for Thermal Behaviors of 18650 Li-ion Batteries

Ximing Cheng*, Nan Shi, Yang Li, Shouqun Wang

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Abstract

Because temperature takes a significant effect on both degradation and safety of Li-ion batteries, thermal models are often used to analyze their temperature distribution with cycling under varying operation conditions. In engineering, micro-element-based numerical models can be built by commercial software of thermal analysis, the heat generation rate of which was obtained only by a constant resistor as the internal resistance of a battery. In this paper, both surface temperature and state-of-charge of a battery are fed back to get model parameters interpolated to elaborate an oriented-application heat generation rate. This enhanced technique was developed in a routine and integrated into the thermo-electrical model in the commercial software Fluent®. Compared to the 1D and 2D thermal models, the thermo-electrical model produced the best simulated temperature of one 18650 Li-ion battery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4757-4762
Number of pages6
JournalEnergy Procedia
Volume105
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event8th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 8 Oct 201611 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Electrical model
  • Li-ion batteries
  • Thermal analysis
  • Thermal model
  • Thermo-electrical coupling model

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