Battery space optimization to limit heat transfer in a lithium-ion battery using adaptive elephant herding optimization

摘要

Pure electric vehicles have a variety of benefits such as energy efficiency, zero environmental emissions, elimination in air pollution, and decreased carbon dioxide emissions. While it offers major benefits, it suffers from numerous battery-related issues, and, among them, heat dissipation is considered to be a major challenge, leading to significant performance degradation if not handled properly. In this present work, a battery thermal management system design is presented using ANSYS Fluent and adaptive elephant herding optimization algorithm for optimizing the battery spacing, reducing the heat dissipation, and ensuring a proper battery temperature in the lithium-ion battery pack. The adaptive elephant herding optimization algorithm provides an optimal battery spacing of (17, 23, 21, 0.23, 0.23, 0.174, 0.174), and the maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and temperature difference values observed are 298.3112 K, 292.9874 K, and 5.47 K, respectively. The research findings show that the adaptive elephant herding optimization algorithm works as an appropriate cost-effective strategy for depicting the influence of the battery spacing towards the battery temperature and results in a uniform cooling of the entire battery pack.