Thermal Mathematical Modeling of a Multicell Common Pressure Vessel Nickel‐Hydrogen Battery
Author(s) -
Junbom Kim,
Truong-Giang Nguyen,
Ralph E. White
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the electrochemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1945-7111
pISSN - 0013-4651
DOI - 10.1149/1.2068979
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , nickel , solver , hydrogen , finite element method , thermal , materials science , heat generation , mechanics , thermodynamics , steady state (chemistry) , nuclear engineering , pressure vessel , temperature gradient , chemistry , metallurgy , computer science , composite material , engineering , physics , power (physics) , organic chemistry , programming language , quantum mechanics
A two-dimensional and time-dependent thermal model of a multicell common pressure vessel (CPV) nickel-hydrogen battery was developed. A finite element solver called PDE/Protran was used to solve this model. The model was used to investigate the effects of various design parameters on the temperature profile within the cell. The results were used to help find a design that will yield an acceptable temperature gradient inside a multicell CPV nickel-hydrogen battery. Steady-state and unsteady-state cases with a constant heat generation rate and a time-dependent heat generation rate were solved.
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