Dynamic electro-thermal modeling of all-vanadium redox flow battery with forced cooling strategies

Applied Energy

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Wei, Zhongbao ^a   Zhao, Jiyun ^a   Xiong, Binyu ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

All vanadium flow battery; Dynamic electro thermal model; Electrolyte temperature; Forced cooling; Foster network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOW RATE; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); VANADIUM;

ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; ELECTROLYTE TEMPERATURE; FLOW BATTERIES; FORCED COOLING; FOSTER NETWORKS;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ELECTROKINESIS; HEAT BALANCE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PREDICTION; REDOX POTENTIAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84907200093     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.08.062     Document Type: Article

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