What are flow field designs used in flow batteries?
Flow field designs used in flow batteries have interested many researchers and engineers since 2012. Zawodzinski’s group first reported a vanadium flow battery (VRB) with a membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Improved limiting current density and peak power density (multiple fields where electrolyte enters a long channel packed with a porous electrode.
What are the practical aspects of flow batteries?
Recent contributions on flow batteries have addressed various aspects, including electrolyte, electrode, membrane, cell design, etc. In this review, we focus on the less-discussed practical aspects of devices, such as flow fields, stack and design considerations for developing high performance large-scale flow batteries.
What is flow field design for redox flow battery (RFB)?
Prospects of flow field design for RFB have been exhibited. Flow field is an important component for redox flow battery (RFB), which plays a great role in electrolyte flow and species distribution in porous electrode to enhance the mass transport. Besides, flow field structure also has a great influence in pressure drop of the battery.
Which flow cell design is best for a stack-scale battery?
Serpentine and interdigitated flow fields are the most frequently studied and compared designs. It is found that the overall battery performance heavily depends on the balance between the electrochemical polarizations and pumping work . More significantly, there exist many issues when scaling up the flow cell toward the stack-scale batteries.
How do you scale up a flow field?
Four pathways for scaling up the flow field are investigated, including (i) geometric similarity, (ii) channel length extension, (iii) same pressure drop, and (v) split-interdigitated flow field. The relation between the width and length of the channel and the concentration overpotential is formulated.
How does flow field affect battery performance?
The flow field directly affects the flow characteristics of the electrolyte, which in turn affects the liquid phase mass transfer process of the electrode surface, and ultimately affects the overall performance of the battery . Therefore, it is very important to design superior flow field to improve battery performance and reduce cost.
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