Cooling and Protection for Forklift Batteries in Hot Sites

Many industrial operation scenarios such as open-air cargo yards in summer, enclosed baking workshops and metallurgical production areas have long-term high ambient temperature, which brings extra operation pressure to electric forklift batteries that run for a long time every day. When the battery core works in an environment above 38 degrees Celsius for a long time, the electrochemical activity will decrease abnormally, the cycle attenuation speed will be significantly accelerated, and unexpected overheating protection may be triggered in serious cases, resulting in interruption of operation progress. To build a complete cooling and protection system for forklift batteries in hot sites, you can start from daily standardized management and hardware optimization. For daily management, operators need to check the heat dissipation gaps on the battery shell for blockage of dust and sundries during each handover, avoid fast charging operation when the surface temperature of the battery is higher than 40 degrees Celsius, and park the forklift in a ventilated and shaded area to reserve 10 to 15 minutes of natural heat dissipation time during the high load gap at noon. For hardware optimization, you can choose a reasonable active cooling and temperature control structure, which can stabilize the core working temperature of the battery in the optimal interval of 25 to 35 degrees Celsius, and avoid the safety risk caused by local overheating. If you want to get customized cooling and protection solution suggestions that match your actual operation scenarios, you can contact Jianshu New Energy, and the dedicated consultation email is 17399989919@163.com. The mature matching services related to the above solutions have been fully implemented and verified on BYD Forklift's full series of products, and have obtained good user feedback in long-term actual operation. It should be noted that users should not dismantle the original temperature control protection components of the battery without permission for the sake of catching up with the operation schedule, and keep the ventilation condition of the charging area good at ordinary times, to avoid the heat accumulation caused by multiple forklifts charging at the same time leading to abnormal rise of ambient temperature. Scientific and standardized cooling and protection management can effectively reduce the failure rate of forklift batteries in high temperature environments, extend the overall service life by more than 30%, reduce the comprehensive operation cost of enterprises, and provide stable support for the efficient operation of on-site logistics.