Battery Fire Safety Modelling

Battery fires have increased drastically ever since electric vehicles are now popularized. It is essential to develop new systems to enhance the fire resilience of such systems. Thermal management systems ensure the safe operating conditions and heat resilience of battery packs in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). More critically, it acts as the ultimate line of defence and mitigates the fire and explosion risks in case of battery thermal runaway. The current study raised a novel approach to reducing fire risks related to HEVs through a novel battery thermal management system powered by low-grade heat sources such as combustion waste heat running on steam ejectors for the first time.