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Title: Soluble Lead Flow Battery: Soluble Lead Flow Battery Technology

Abstract

GRIDS Project: General Atomics is developing a flow battery technology based on chemistry similar to that used in the traditional lead-acid battery found in nearly every car on the road today. Flow batteries store energy in chemicals that are held in tanks outside the battery. When the energy is needed, the chemicals are pumped through the battery. Using the same basic chemistry as a traditional battery but storing its energy outside of the cell allows for the use of very low cost materials. The goal is to develop a system that is far more durable than today’s lead-acid batteries, can be scaled to deliver megawatts of power, and which lowers the cost of energy storage below $100 per kilowatt hour.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1046748
Resource Type:
Program Document
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage; Stationary Energy Storage; GRIDS; ARPA-E

Citation Formats

. Soluble Lead Flow Battery: Soluble Lead Flow Battery Technology. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
. Soluble Lead Flow Battery: Soluble Lead Flow Battery Technology. United States.
. 2010. "Soluble Lead Flow Battery: Soluble Lead Flow Battery Technology". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1046748.
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abstractNote = {GRIDS Project: General Atomics is developing a flow battery technology based on chemistry similar to that used in the traditional lead-acid battery found in nearly every car on the road today. Flow batteries store energy in chemicals that are held in tanks outside the battery. When the energy is needed, the chemicals are pumped through the battery. Using the same basic chemistry as a traditional battery but storing its energy outside of the cell allows for the use of very low cost materials. The goal is to develop a system that is far more durable than today’s lead-acid batteries, can be scaled to deliver megawatts of power, and which lowers the cost of energy storage below $100 per kilowatt hour.},
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year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
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