Integrated environmental control and battery thermal management system for electric aircraft
AssigneeIntergalactic Spaceworx, LLC
InventorsTony Ho, Jeff Senkiw
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Abstract
A battery thermal management system (BTMS) for an electric aircraft is disclosed herein. The BTMS includes an air compression portion providing a supply of fresh air, an environmental control heat exchange system coupled to the air compression portion to receive the supply of fresh air, and a BTMS pump portion supplying a BTMS coolant. An electrical storage system controls a temperature of the set of batteries by enabling the transfer of heat from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant and the heat transferred from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant passes to the environmental control heat exchange system.
Claims20
A battery thermal management system (BTMS) for an electric aircraft, the BTMS comprising:
- an air compression portion providing a supply of fresh air;
- an environmental control heat exchange system coupled to the air compression portion to receive the supply of fresh air;
- a BTMS pump portion supplying a BTMS coolant;
- an electrical storage system comprising a set of batteries, wherein the electrical storage system is configured to control a temperature of the set of batteries by enabling a transfer of heat from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant;
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- wherein the heat transferred from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant passes to the environmental control heat exchange system to provide heat to the fresh air.
An electric aircraft comprising:
- a battery thermal management system configured to manage a temperature of an electrical storage system, the battery thermal management system comprising:
- an air compression portion providing a supply of fresh air;
- an environmental control heat exchange system coupled to the air compression portion to receive the supply of fresh air;
- a BTMS pump portion supplying a BTMS coolant;
- a set of batteries provided in the electrical storage system, wherein the electrical storage system is configured to control the temperature of the set of batteries by enabling a transfer of heat from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant;
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- wherein the heat transferred from the set of batteries to the BTMS coolant passes to the environmental control heat exchange system to provide heat to the fresh air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.