Design and implementation of liquid cooling system for ArchiMITes vehicle

MIT Vehicle Design Summit is building ArchiMITes, a lightweight hybrid vehicle with a modular auxiliary power unit. For testing purposes, the vehicle platform will first be built as an all-electric vehicle. It will be powered by five lithium ion batteries that generate a total of 700 W of heat. Without a cooling system, the batteries will quickly rise above 50 'C and become damaged. This project seeks to design and put together a liquid cooling system to remove the heat from the batteries. Calculations indicate that the battery cell temperature will be 17.39 'C above the ambient temperature. This temperature difference incorporates a factor of safety of 2. Further studies on battery placement, working fluid fill methods, and fan and pump control are recommended.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hui, Sam, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Evelyn N. Wang and Anna S. Jaffe.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69512

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/69512