• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2023

When lithium-ion batteries operate out of the proper temperature range, their performance can be significantly degraded and safety issues such as thermal runaway can occur. Therefore, battery thermal management systems are widely researched to maintain the temperature of Li-ion battery cells within the proper temperature range during the charging and discharging process. This study investigates the cooling performance and isothermal maintenance of cooling materials by measuring the surface temperature of a battery cell with or without cooling materials, such as silicone oil, thermal adhesive, and phase change materials during discharge process of battery by the experimental and numerical analysis. As a result of the experiment, the battery pack filled with phase change material showed a temperature reduction of 47.4 ℃ compared to the case of natural convection. It proves the advanced utility of the cooling unit using phase change material that is suitable for use in battery thermal management systems.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.54-64
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• 2021

Electric vehicles use lithium-ion battery packs as the power supply, where the batteries are connected in series or parallel. The temperature control of each battery is essential to ensure a consistent overall temperature. This study focused on reducing ohmic heating caused by batteries to realize a uniform battery temperature. The battery spacing was optimized to improve air cooling, and the tilt angle between the batteries was varied to optimize the internal structure of the batterypack. Simulations were performed to evaluate the effects of these parameters, and the results showed that the optimal scheme effectively achieved a uniform battery temperature under a constant power discharge. These findings can contribute to future research on cooling methods for battery packs.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.932-939
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• 2012

This paper presents an equivalent circuit model of a LIPB (Li-Ion Polymer battery) for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs). The proposed equivalent circuit can be used to predict the charging/discharging characteristics in time domain as well as the impedance characteristic analysis in frequency domain. Based on these features, a one-cell model is established as a function of Depth of Discharge (DoD), and a 48-cell model for a battery pack was also established. It was confirmed by experiment that the proposed model predict the discharging and impedance (AC) characteristics quite accurately at different constant current levels. To check the usefulness of the proposed circuit, the model was used to simulate a motor driving circuit with an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) inverter and Brushless DC (BLDC) motor, and it is confirmed that the model can calculate the battery voltage fluctuation in time domain at different DoDs.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2023

Lithium-ion batteries are predominantly employed in electric vehicles and energy storage devices, offering the advantage of high energy density. However, they are susceptible to efficiency degradation when operated at high temperatures due to their sensitivity to the external environment. In this study, we conducted experiments using an indirect cooling method to prevent thermal runaway and explosions in lithium-ion batteries. The results were validated by comparing them with heat transfer simulations conducted through a commercial finite element analysis program. The experiments included single-cell exothermic tests and cooling experiments on a battery pack with 10 cells connected in series, utilizing 21700 lithium-ion batteries. To block external temperature influences, the experimental environment featured an extrusion method insulation in the environmental chamber. The cooling system, suitable for indirect cooling, was constructed with copper tubes and pins. The heat transfer analysis began by presenting a single-cell heating model using commercial software, which was then employed to analyze the heating and cooling of the battery pack.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.89-101
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 HAUSAT-2 전력계의 설계와 각 모드별로 에너지 평형 해석을 통한 전력계 설계의 타당성을 검증하였다. 태양전지판은 GaAs 셀을 사용하였고 디지털 방식의 최대 전력 추적기를 채택하였다. 배터리 팩은 4개의 Li-Ion 셀로 구성하였고 최대 전력 추적기와 배터리 충전 조절기로 배터리 충전 기능을 구현하였다. 전력 제어기는 DC-DC 변환기로 요구되는 전압을 출력하고 상용 IC 및 MOSFET으로 이루어진 전력 분배기가 서브시스템 및 탑재체에 전력을 분배시킨다. 전력생성 분석은 다양한 승교점 지방시(LTAN)를 가지는 궤도를 고려하여 수행하였으며, 이 중 HAUSAT-2의 임무 수행에 적합한 궤도를 선정하여 모드별 전력 사항을 반영하여 에너지 평형 해석(EBA)을 진행하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

본 논문은 퍼스널 모빌리티에 사용되는 360 Wh급 리튬이온 배터리 팩의 성능 및 안정성 확보를 위하여 리튬이온 배터리 팩의 열전달 특성에 관하여 상용수치해석 프로그램인 ANSYS v17.0의 CFX를 이용하여 수치적으로 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 퍼스널 모빌리티에 사용되는 360 Wh급 리튬이온 배터리 팩의 배터리 셀 배열을 4가지 경우로 변경하고, 배터리 셀 홀더에 사용되는 재질과 배터리 팩 케이스에 사용되는 재질을 각각 Polypropylene, Aluminium, Magnesium alloy로 변경하였다. 그 결과 배터리 평균 온도는 배터리 셀 배열이 Model 2 일 때 가장 낮게 예측되었으며, 배터리 셀 홀더와 배터리 팩 케이스 재질 변경에 따른 배터리 평균 온도는 대부분의 경우 Aluminium 일 때 가장 낮게 예측되었다. 퍼스널 모빌리티에 사용되는 360 Wh급 리튬이온 배터리 팩의 열전달 성능은 배터리 셀 배열과 배터리 팩 케이스 재질에 많은 영향을 받았으며, 배터리 셀 배열 Model 2와 배터리 팩 케이스 재질이 Aluminium 일 때 가장 높았다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.193-199
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• 2014

The series connected battery cells are mainly used in high voltage battery pack application. However parameter inequality of each battery cell makes battery voltage imbalance problem. In this paper, a new balancing circuit utilizing converter scheme for the series connected battery cells is proposed. Proposed circuit offers easy control and fast equalization time. Moreover the circuit can be used in a practical application because it has high modularity and can operate during the charging/discharging cycle. To show its superiorness and effectiveness, the principle of proposed circuit is explained with computer simulation and experiment is carried out using lithium-ion battery.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.124-132
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• 2018

This paper proposes an LLC resonant converter based battery charger which utilizes an adaptive turn ratio scheme to achieve a wide output voltage range and high efficiency. The high frequency transformer of the LLC converter of the proposed strategy has an adaptively changed turn ratio through the auxiliary control circuit. As a result, an optimized converter design with high magnetizing inductance is possible, while minimizing conduction and turn-off losses and providing a regulated voltage gain to properly charge the lithium ion battery. For a step-by-step explanation, operational principle and optimal design considerations of the proposed converter are illustrated in detail. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified through various experimental results and efficiency analysis based on prototype 300W Li-ion battery charger and battery pack.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.420-421
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• 2010

In this paper, a multi-module selective battery equalizer for series-connected Li-ion battery pack is proposed. Selective Equalizer (SE) scheme achieves smaller volume and lighter weight than individual cell equalizer (ICE) by minimizing the part count of bulky circuit element. However, SE scheme shows slow balancing speed when the voltage imbalance simultaneously occurs in more than one cell. The proposed multi-module overcomes the problem by employing multiple power converters. Prototype hardware is implemented and experimented with 14Ah battery cells to validate the performance of the proposed equalizer.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.16-19
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• 2016

More efficient use of the battery pack is dependent upon how to measure the remaining capacity of the battery accurately. Among various measurement methods, the basic correction measurement method has still been a hot research topic area to reduce the errors. In this paper, the problems of the existing methods have been investigated and the research direction for measuring more accurate remaining capacity has been suggested by applying the numerical simulations in the future.