Siemens Energy as

Tore Berge

Eirik Børsheim

Eirik Borsheim

Arve Skjetne

Sivert Eliassen

Additional cooling is provided to an energy storage module of a cooling system with a plurality of cooling channels in contact with a surface of an energy storage device, by pipe connections of a common cooling fluid outlet pipe that have a lower melting point than pipe connections of the common cooling fluid inlet pipe. In use, if the pipe connections are subjected to elevated temperatures, or fire, the pipe connections of the common fluid outlet pipe fail before the pipe connections of the common fluid inlet pipe, causing a pressure drop, whereby the rate of fluid flow through the cooler of the energy storage module in which the pipe connection has failed is substantially increased.

Cooling system and method

An energy storage module with one or more energy storage devices and a cooler on which the energy storage device is mounted in contact with the energy storage device. The cooler has one or more cooling fluid channels for circulating cooling fluid, the channels being in contact with a surface of the energy storage device, each cooling fluid channel being adapted to receive cooling fluid from a source of cooling fluid, extract heat from the energy storage device and return the cooling fluid to the source. At least a part of the cooling fluid channel includes a material having a melting point above 100&#xb0; C.

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