Design and fabrication of evaporators for thermo-adsorptive batteries

Current heating and cooling within electric vehicles places a significant demand on the battery, greatly reducing their potential driving range. An Advanced Thermo- Adsorptive Battery (ATB) reduces this load by storing thermal energy within a bed of adsorptive sheets. A phase change heat exchanger capable of delivering the required cooling via liquid-vapor phase change was designed and prototyped for ATB. The thermal performance and fluid flow within the phase change heat exchanger were characterized for both coolant and refrigerant. A full-scale and quarter-length prototype was designed within the desired geometric and operating condition constraints. In order to build the phase change heat exchanger, fabrication techniques, including brazing, copper sintering, and bonding porous media were explored and characterized. In addition, the quarter-length design was fabricated and insights from its construction are proposed as recommendations for future work.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Farnham, Taylor A

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Evelyn Wang.

• 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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92611

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/92611