Battery Pack Cooling Validation
- Eric Zhao
- Katharine Laughton
Goals:
Research pack cooling methods
Previous car used PC fans for active cooling and thermal pads on the bottom of the modules for passive cooling
Are there any other ideas we haven’t considered or researched into yet?
For example is there any way we can design the shape of the car so that it naturally draws some air into and through the battery pack?
Decide with Aerobody on how we want to create “holes” in the car to allow for ventilation of the pack
Regulations require that ventilation air is drawn to the exterior of the car
Are the methods that we decide on sufficient for keeping the pack cool (without drawing too much power)?
This will likely require some more in depth calculations or simulations, maybe creating a prototype of our proposed modules? For this you can probably brainstorm how we can validate this, and then sync with @Owen Li and @Eric Zhao to create a plan to verify that we can reasonably maintain a safe battery temperature
Resources:
Current research into cooling created by @Jeyoung Park and @Tony Ye
Battery Pack Cooling Validation
Previous documentation for the cooling of MSXIV
There’s a lot of calculations documented here that might be useful for validating our designs and ideas for cooling
Regulations, 8.4 is probably the most relevant section to this project
Will probably need to sync with Aerobody (@Michael Hanley) to determine ventilation placement/method
Feel free to message @Owen Li or @Eric Zhao about anything!