Published Paper Details:

Fossil fuels are a rapidly diminishing energy source that heavily contributes to air pollution. The optimal way to eliminate all the complications caused by fossil fuel vehicles is to use an electric vehicle. The energy source for electric vehicles is a lithium-ion battery. Compared to other battery types now in use, lithium-ion batteries have smaller battery sizes and higher energy densities while maintaining the same storage capacity. A battery will experience thermal runaway and explode if the heat produced during charging and discharging conditions is not precisely controlled. Therefore, careful thermal management of Li-ion batteries is required to increase their lifespan as well as the lives of those who use them. Li-ion batteries' four main cooling and heating methods are air cooling/heating, liquid cooling/heating, phase change material (PCM)-based cooling/heating systems, and hybrid cooling techniques. Every strategy has merits and negative aspects of its own. The current paper critically examines the thermal management of batteries at low and high temperatures, which analyses various approaches to investigating the potential for employing PCM in BTMS. Furthermore, PCM utilization in hybrid thermal management systems is carefully examined. The current paper further expands the evaluations to the potential usage of inorganic composite PCM and Nano-emulsions for Li-ion battery thermal management in the future.