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What is a cold plate for a lithium ion battery?

We have Cold Plates for Electric Vehicles of various sizes, for fast charging stations, and for renewable energy storage applications. The high sensitivity of Lithium Ion batteries towards temperature extremities makes Cold Plates a crucial component for battery thermal management.

What is a cold plate?

Alkraft’s Cold Plates are designed to provide consistent cooling, ensuring temperature uniformity throughout the battery surface. This uniform cooling is essential for maintaining battery efficiency and longevity, preventing hot spots that could degrade battery performance over time.

Are liquid cold plates effective at removing heat from batteries?

The prototypes were extensively tested within the battery packs and proven to be highly effective at removing heat from the batteries. Ultimately, the highly-efficient and lightweight liquid cold plates were able to dramatically increase thermal performance while decreasing the overall weight of the battery pack by over 40%.

How does cold plate design work?

A key aspect of our cold plate design process involves the optimization of their internal flow paths, achieved through iterative Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. This meticulous design approach ensures that coolant flow is maximized for efficient heat removal from the battery cells.

Why do EVs need liquid cold plates?

The specialty vehicle power demand required new, larger battery pack designs for each EV model which resulted in high heat loads. To ensure that the larger battery packs remained cool enough for operation throughout the vehicle’s lifespan, the customer needed custom liquid cold plates (LCPs) designed specifically for this application.

Can cold plate thermal properties be used in electric vehicle batteries?

Once these parameters were defined, Boyd presented several different past cold plate examples that had been successfully implemented into electric vehicle batteries with similar requirements. Several TIMs were also presented, each featuring different thermal properties.