Heat and Mass Transfer: Thermal Safety and Thermal Management of Lithium-ion Batteries

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Guest Editors

Zhi Wang, Associate Professor, School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Zhi Wang is an associate professor at the School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Safety Science and Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2020. He was a visiting researcher at Aalto University from 2019 to 2020. His research interests include the thermal safety of lithium-ion batteries, battery thermal management, heat and mass transfer mechanism in fire, thermal analysis of solid waste materials, process safety in the utilization of hydrogen, safety and fire protection, risk assessment, etc., during the past 5 years. He has published more than 50 papers in the SCI journals. He has applied for or was granted 11 invention patents related to battery safety and thermal management.


Changhui Liu, Associate Professor, School of Low-carbon Energy and Power Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Dr Changhui Liu earned his Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Shu Kobayashi at The University of Tokyo (Japan) from 2017 to 2018. Currently, he works as an associate professor at the School of Low-carbon Energy and Power Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. His research interests include advanced battery thermal management technologies, phase change energy storage, phase change aided thermal management, heat transport in heat pipe, heat and mass transfer of nanofluids, etc. Dr Liu has been authorized over 90 research papers and 16 patents, including 13 papers with IF over 10, and 2 papers were selected as highly cited papers.


Youfu Lv, Associate Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Youfu Lv received his Ph.D. degree from the Guangdong University of Technology in June 2020 and was employed by Changsha University of Science and Technology as a Lecturer in July of the same year. Currently, he works as an associate professor and has been working on battery thermal management technology, battery thermal disaster prevention and control, enhanced heat and mass transfer, composite phase change energy storage materials, numerical simulation and modeling. He has published more than 20 papers in authoritative journals at home and abroad and has been authorized 4 invention patents.

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Summary

Lithium-ion batteries, as one of the advanced energy storage technologies, have been widely used in electric vehicles, energy storage power stations, portable devices, etc. However, the electrochemical performance and internal reactions of batteries are highly sensitive to operating temperature or surrounding temperature. Inappropriate temperature conditions can cause battery degradation, thermal stability deterioration, and even lead to thermal safety hazards. In addition, as the physical scale and energy density of battery packs increase, the notable presence of temperature gradients within battery modules or battery packs results in poor temperature consistency between battery cells, which in turn reduces the effective capacity, shortens the cycle life, and increase the risk of fire. Meanwhile, The shortcomings in the low-temperature performance of batteries have also attracted research attention to the battery heating demands in low-temperature climates or cold regions. Thus, advanced battery thermal management strategies are indispensable to ensure the reliability and safety of battery systems, and related research has always been a hot topic recently.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the novel results in theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies of thermal management of lithium-ion batteries, which includes cooling or heating technologies, such as passive thermal management with phase change materials, active thermal management with immersion liquid cooling, thermoelectric cooling, alternative current heating, etc. Both research work and review papers can be submitted.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Heat transfer during thermal runaway and propagation;

• Thermal safety strategies and design;

• Enhanced heat or mass transfer in thermal management;

• Liquid cooling;

• Air cooling;

• Phase change material cooling;

• Heat pipe cooling;

• Hybrid cooling;

• Thermochemical heat storage;

• Battery heating technologies;

• Pulsed self-heating method;

• AC heating method;

• Novel methods in experiments, modeling and simulation of battery thermal management.

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Keywords

Battery thermal management, cooling, heating, heat and mass transfer

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