Micro flow battery

Abstract: Membraneless micro redox flow batteries are an incipient technology that has been shown to extend some properties of traditional redox flow batteries. Due to their microfluidic scale and the absence of membrane, the fluid dynamics operation is critical in the electrical response. Micro-tomography (CT) can be successfully employed to characterize ex situ the structural changes occurring in graphite felt electrodes during vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) operation. Coupled high resolution X-ray and electron microscopy in conjunction with XPS are used to elucidate the microstructural and chemical changes to the high ...

What is the flow rate of a membraneless micro redox flow battery?

Figure 6 illustrates the current obtained during the charging and discharging process of the new electrolyte in a membraneless micro redox flow battery, with constant flow rates of 250 μL/min and 200 μL/min for the positive and negative sides, respectively.

What is a flow battery?

Unlike secondary battery systems using solid active materials, flow batteries decouple energy storage (i.e., the concentration of electrolyte and storage container size) and power conversion (i.e., the central electrochemical reaction energy conversion device), thus enabling relatively safe energy storage and long battery life (4, 6 – 8).

How much does a flow battery cost?

The capital cost of flow batteries (~US$800/kWh) (9) is still significantly higher than that of Li-ion batteries (<US$300/kWh) (10) and far from the US$125/kWh goal set by the US Department of Energy (1). The power module composes ~40% of the cost of flow batteries (11).

Can flow batteries be commercially viable?

However, the footprint and capital cost need further reduction for flow batteries to be commercially viable. The flow cell, where electron exchange takes place, is a central component of flow batteries. Improving the volumetric power density of the flow cell (W/L cell) can reduce the size and cost of flow batteries.

What are the advantages of a flow battery?

There are several advantages of this design, enabling an order of magnitude increase in volumetric power density compared with the conventional planar cell configuration. First, all the flow battery parts are in a submillimeter size, which is significantly smaller than those used in a planar or the centimeter- and millimeter-scale tubular cells.

What are redox flow batteries?

In contrast to the solid-state secondary batteries, redox flow batteries (RFBs) decouple energy capacity and power density and present high economic effectiveness [2, 3, , , , , , , , ].

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Micro-tomography (CT) can be successfully employed to characterize ex situ the structural changes occurring in graphite felt electrodes during vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) operation. Coupled high resolution X-ray and electron microscopy in conjunction with XPS are used to elucidate the microstructural and chemical changes to the high ...

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Recent advances in porous electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries ...

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