BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI

BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
Publicat de
Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi
Tomul LVIII (LXII), Fasc. 3, 2012
Secţia
MATEMATICĂ. MECANICĂ TEORETICĂ. FIZICĂ
ONS FOR ELECTRICAL VEHICLE BATTERY USING
OPENMODELICA SOFTWARE PACKAGE
BY
VLAD MARŢIAN ∗1,2 , MIHAI NAGI 1 and CIPRIAN FLUIERAŞ 1
Received: April 23. 2012
Accepted for publication: July 15, 2012
1 „Politehnica” University, Timişoara,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
2 RAAL S.A.,
Research and Development
Abstract. Increasing demand for clean energy consumptions, and also the
continuously rising of gasoline prices, forced the car manufacturers to consider
the electric driven cars (EV) and hybrid traction cars (HEV), as a solution to
this problem. The main challenge in this field is to develop new batteries that
have high power and high storage capabilities, but this comes at the price of
increased heat generation in the battery, heat that must be evacuated so the
battery doesn’t suffer any damage. The present article presents the simulation of
1D thermal model of a battery using the OpenModelica software package. The
aim of this simulation is to develop the cooling system for an electric vehicle.
Key words: heat transfer, electrical battery, electrical vehicles, hybrid
vehicles, simulation.
1. General Considerations
Electric energy seems to be the future of the vehicles driving power. Due
to continuously rising prices of petrol witch some forecast place a figure of 300
$/barrel in 2035 (Paier, 2011), and due to the growing need for a cleaner
environment, more and more car manufacturers are beginning to develop
electrical powered (EV) and hybrid (HEV) vehicles. The advantages of this type
of powered vehicle are obvious, and apart from the clean energy consumption
∗ Corresponding author: e-mail: mailto:%20vlad.martian@raal.ro