Imperial College London
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Prof Gregory Offer

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor in Electrochemical Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7072gregory.offer Website

 
 
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720City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Samieian:2022:10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00359,
author = {Samieian, MA and Garcia, CE and Bravo, Diaz L and Hales, A and Patel, Y and Offer, GJ},
doi = {10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00359},
journal = {HardwareX},
pages = {1--15},
title = {Large scale immersion bath for isothermal testing of lithium-ion cells},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00359},
volume = {12},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Testing of lithium-ion batteries depends greatly on accurate temperature control in order to generate reliable experimental data. Reliable data is essential to parameterise and validate battery models, which are essential to speed up and reduce the cost of battery pack design for multiple applications. There are many methods to control the temperature of cells during testing, such as forced air convection, liquid cooling or conduction cooling using cooling plates. Depending on the size and number of cells, conduction cooling can be a complex and costly option. Although easier to implement, forced air cooling is not very effective and can introduce significant errors if used for battery model parametrisation. Existing commercially available immersion baths are not cost effective (∼£3320) and are usually too small to hold even one large pouch cell. Here, we describe an affordable but effective cooling method using immersion cooling. This bath is designed to house eight large lithium-ion pouch cells (300mm x 350mm), each immersed in a base oil cooling fluid (150L total volume). The total cost of this setup is only £1670. The rig is constructed using a heater, chilling unit, and a series of pumps. This immersion bath can maintain a temperature within 0.5 °C of the desired set point, it is operational within the temperature range 5 – 55 °C and has been validated at a temperature range of 25 – 45 °C.
AU  - Samieian,MA
AU  - Garcia,CE
AU  - Bravo,Diaz L
AU  - Hales,A
AU  - Patel,Y
AU  - Offer,GJ
DO  - 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00359
EP  - 15
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2468-0672
SP  - 1
TI  - Large scale immersion bath for isothermal testing of lithium-ion cells
T2  - HardwareX
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00359
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222001043?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/99729
VL  - 12
ER  -
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