Lithium-ion battery is considered one of the most attractive energy storage systems for electric vehicles. However, one of its main drawbacks is the sensitivity to temperature. In a battery pack composed of lithium-ion batteries, during the charge/discharge operations, the temperature gradually increases, especially in the batteries positioned in the central part of the battery pack. This leads the central batteries to age faster and exposes them to the risk of a thermal runaway. In order to mitigate these problems, thermal management systems are needed. However, for the implementation of the control, it is important to know the temperature distribution inside the whole pack. In this paper, an integrated electro-thermal model capable of estimating the thermal behavior of each battery cell, composing the battery pack, only knowing the total current and ambient temperature, is proposed and analyzed. The proposed model was tuned and validated by means of experimental results. The circuital approach used in this model gives good results with a low degree of complexity.

Integrated Electro-Thermal Model for Li-Ion Battery Packs

Barcellona S.;Colnago S.;Montrasio P.;Piegari L.
2022-01-01

Abstract

Lithium-ion battery is considered one of the most attractive energy storage systems for electric vehicles. However, one of its main drawbacks is the sensitivity to temperature. In a battery pack composed of lithium-ion batteries, during the charge/discharge operations, the temperature gradually increases, especially in the batteries positioned in the central part of the battery pack. This leads the central batteries to age faster and exposes them to the risk of a thermal runaway. In order to mitigate these problems, thermal management systems are needed. However, for the implementation of the control, it is important to know the temperature distribution inside the whole pack. In this paper, an integrated electro-thermal model capable of estimating the thermal behavior of each battery cell, composing the battery pack, only knowing the total current and ambient temperature, is proposed and analyzed. The proposed model was tuned and validated by means of experimental results. The circuital approach used in this model gives good results with a low degree of complexity.
2022
battery electrical model
battery thermal model
lithium-ion battery
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