flow is eventually discharged from the energy storage system by the thermal management system thereby removing thermal energy from the energy storage system application_number US 201113219173 A description embodiments relate to a thermal management system for an energy storage system with reference to the drawings like reference numerals designate identical or corresponding parts throughout the several views however the inclusion of like elements in different views does not mean a given embodiment necessarily includes such elements or that all embodiments of the invention include such elements fig1 illustrates the broad concept of an energy storage system 100 having a thermal management system in accordance with various embodiments the thermal management system has several elements as is discussed herein the energy storage system 100 includes a plurality of electrochemical cells 110 for storing energy the electrochemical cells 110 are arranged adjacent to each other to form an array of electrochemical cells 110 for example in accordance with an embodiment sixty four electrochemical cells 110 can be arranged as an array of eight cells by eight cells in for example a generally cubic rectangular parallelepiped configuration each electrochemical cell has a first end 111 and a second end 112 as defined in this example by the longitudinal axis of the cell furthermore each electrochemical cell includes a negative electrical terminal 113 and a positive electrical terminal 114 on the second end 112 the electrical terminals of the cells may be connected in series in parallel or in some combination of series and.