Air-Cooled Battery Energy Storage System
Application ID: 121131
Tutorial model of an air-cooled battery energy storage system (BESS).
The model includes conjugate heat transfer with turbulent flow, fan curves, internal screens, and grilles. It features several interesting aspects:
- Fully parameterized geometry, which can be modified for different cell sizes, numbers of cells in each module, and number of modules in the cabinet.
- Use of fan curves from tabulated data, for example from fan manufacturers.
- Definition of flow resistance across external grilles and internal screens.
- The definition of heat sources due to battery losses.
A possible extension of the model would be to include the electrochemistry of the batteries in order to get a more accurate heat source due to electrochemical and ohmic losses.
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