Redox flow batteries : Status and perspective towards sustainable stationary energy storage

Eduardo Sánchez-Díez; Edgar Ventosa; Massimo Guarnieri; Andrea Trovò; Cristina Flox; Rebeca Marcilla; Francesca Soavi; Petr Mazur; Estibaliz Aranzabe; Raquel Ferret

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228804

Redox flow batteries : Status and perspective towards sustainable stationary energy storage

Eduardo Sánchez-Díez^*
, Edgar Ventosa
, Massimo Guarnieri
, Andrea Trovò
, Cristina Flox
, Rebeca Marcilla
, Francesca Soavi
, Petr Mazur
, Estibaliz Aranzabe
, Raquel Ferret

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Redox-flow batteries, based on their particular ability to decouple power and energy, stand as prime candidates for cost-effective stationary storage, particularly in the case of long discharges and long storage times. Integration of renewables and subsequent need for energy storage is promoting effort on the development of mature and emerging redox-flow technologies. This review aims at providing a critical analysis of redox-flow technologies that can potentially fulfill cost requirements and enable large scale storage, mainly aqueous based systems. A comprehensive overview of the status of those technologies, including advantages and weaknesses, is presented. Compiled data on the market permeability, performance and cost should serve, together with the perspective included, to understand the different strategies to reach the successful implementation, from component development to innovative designs.

Original language	English
Article number	228804
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Power Sources
Volume	481
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228804
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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All in all, significant improvements have been achieved in the field of RFBs and future efforts will allow RFBs to continue paving the road to 2030 targets (10,000 cycles and 0.05 € kW –1 h –1 cycle –1 ) in view of the wider spread of sustainable electrochemical energy storage. European Commission is supporting the consecution of this research through the HORIZON2020 call LC-BAT-3 and 4 fully devoted to RFBs, e.g. innovative technologies as AORFB and All-copper RFB are supported by this initiative aiming to reach high TRLs. This work has been supported by the European Union under HIGREEW , Affordable High-performance Green Redox Flow batteries (Grant Agreement no. 875613 ) and CuBER , Copper-Based Flow Batteries for energy storage renewables integration (Grant agreement no: 875605 ) projects. Basque Government ( GV-ELKARTEK-2020 KK-2020/00078 ), Spanish MINECO ( RTI2018-099228-A-I00 and RYC2018-026086-I (Ramon y Cajal fellowship) E.V.) and CDTI ( Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial , CER-20191006 ) are also acknowledged for funding this work. R.M. thanks the European Research Council (ERC) through “MFreeB” project (grant agreement no. 726217 ) for financial support.

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Electrochemical energy storage
Redox-flow batteries
Stationary energy storage
Sustainable energy

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Redox flow batteries : Status and perspective towards sustainable stationary energy storage

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