BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

Battery Systems, Thermal Management & Safety

In October 2026, I undertook complete energy-storage systems design through the Advanced Training on Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage System for Industrial Settings, delivered by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) with Practical Action through the GRIPS2 program on grid resilience through photovoltaic systems. The training took me beyond battery thermal management into BESS sizing, system design, fire safety, and the integration of batteries with solar and industrial power systems — connecting with the larger question of how we can deploy energy storage safely and reliably.

In January 2026, I completed two FSRI courses on lithium-ion battery fire hazards and research-based public fire safety education, equipping me with the training resources and practical knowledge to understand battery failures, thermal runaway, fire and explosion risks, and communicate them effectively.

I later applied this knowledge by training the different facilities on battery safety, turning the research and training into practical safety education.

During 2024-2025, while working at Yarsa Tech, I worked on lithium-polymer battery-powered products, including the development of a power bank. During prototyping, I encountered a thermal heating issue and began looking beyond the conventional plastic enclosure. I prototyped an aluminium-based case design to improve heat dissipation and explored how the enclosure itself could contribute to thermal management. It was a practical lesson in designing battery products where thermal performance, manufacturability, and product design have to work together.

In March 2024, We combined experiments with ANSYS Fluent simulations to measure battery heat generation and compare different air-cooling configurations for a 3S3P lithium-ion battery module. Using parametric analysis and the response curve method, we found that the SIDO (Single Input Double Output) configuration maintained a lower average cell temperature than the other configurations studied. The work was published in Results in Engineering as “Parametric study of battery module cooling: Configuration optimization using response curve method.”

Research Paper Summary : ( Parametric study of battery module cooling: Configuration optimization using response curve method)

In October 2023, I began Gregory L. Plett’s Introduction to Battery Management Systems course at the University of Colorado Boulder. What I expected to be a short online course became a six-month learning process, giving me a deeper understanding of battery-management systems and strengthening my interest in battery performance, thermal behaviour and safety.

In April 2023, I took the question from my internship further through my final-year thesis, “Study and Design of Thermal Management System of Lithium-Ion Battery Module.” I wanted to understand what was actually happening inside a battery as it heated up, and how we could control that heat. We used ANSYS Fluent to study air- and liquid-cooling configurations and built an experimental setup to compare the results. The work showed me how a practical problem I first noticed in an EV workshop could become a deeper engineering research question.

In July 2022, I spent a month at Ebolt Mobility as an Engineering Intern, working on electric vehicle battery systems. While studying the battery pack and its thermal behavior, I became particularly interested in how heat generation becomes a challenge as charging rates increase, especially for fast charging. I explored battery thermal management through CAD and ANSYS simulations, which eventually led me toward my undergraduate research in battery thermal management. [Internship Report]

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