
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Thermal Management of Battery Systems</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Al Hallaj, Said</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Selman, Jan Robert</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>The invention is to a method of operating a power supply system comprising the steps of discharging at least one cell element of a battery module to produce a quantity of power and a quantity of heat; absorbing at least a portion of the heat in a phase change material in thermal contact with the discharging cell element; following discharge, releasing at least a portion of the heat from the phase change material to heat the at least one cell element; and discharging the at least one cell element at elevated temperature.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:description>
  <dc:description>United States Patent</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2009-05-14</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2002-10-22</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Patent</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:9790</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>6,468,689</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2438</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>No Copyright - United States</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>