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MJ2522 Thermal management of Battery systems 6.0 credits

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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus MJ2522 (Spring 2025–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus MJ2522 (Spring 2025–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course content includes:

  • Introduction, battery chemistry, battery types
  • Thermal aspects on battery cells
  • Overview of battery systems (including a short overview of battery electronics), their applications and related thermal handling requirements
  • Cooling systems for battery modules
  • Thermal simulations: Cell/Systems/Pack
  • Battery safety
  • Cooling system design for battery packs – complete system design
  • System qualification and validation

Intended learning outcomes

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Analyse different types of batteries with regard to chemistry, thermal handling and safety, both descriptively and comparative.
  2. Explain why batteries generate heat, basic charge/discharge models, estimates of heat generation and related experimental methods at cell level.
  3. Describe different types of cooling systems in battery systems (air, liquid and immersion cooling) and be able to compare them with one another.
  4. Model thermal handling in battery systems.
  5. Evaluate different simulation methods and tools and their specific applications.
  6. Design and dimension thermal handling and safety system for batteries.
  7. Verify thermal handling and safety in batteries through different experimental methods.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Basic knowledge in heat transfer and Thermodynamics

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • PRO1 - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
  • TEN1 - Written exam, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Examiner

Profile picture Hatef Madani Larijani

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ITM/Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration

Main field of study

Mechanical Engineering

Education cycle

Second cycle