skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Redox flow batteries based on supporting solutions containing chloride

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1117698

Redox flow battery systems having a supporting solution that contains Cl.sup.- ions can exhibit improved performance and characteristics. Furthermore, a supporting solution having mixed SO.sub.4.sup.2- and Cl.sup.- ions can provide increased energy density and improved stability and solubility of one or more of the ionic species in the catholyte and/or anolyte. According to one example, a vanadium-based redox flow battery system is characterized by an anolyte having V.sup.2+ and V.sup.3+ in a supporting solution and a catholyte having V.sup.4+ and V.sup.5+ in a supporting solution. The supporting solution can contain Cl.sup.- ions or a mixture of SO.sub.4.sup.2- and Cl.sup.- ions.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
Patent Number(s):
8,628,880
Application Number:
12/892,693
OSTI ID:
1117698
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2010 Sep 28
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (13)

Electrically rechargeable REDOX flow cell patent December 1976
Redox battery including a bromine positive electrode and a chromium ion negative electrode, and method patent September 1984
All-vanadium redox battery patent November 1988
Electrolytes for redox flow batteries patent March 1989
Stabilized vanadium electrolyte solutions for all-vanadium redox cells and batteries patent May 2003
Vanadium/polyhalide redox flow battery patent January 2008
High energy density vanadium electrolyte solutions, methods of preparation thereof and all-vanadium redox cells and batteries containing high energy vanadium electrolyte solutions patent-application July 2003
Metal halide redox flow battery patent-application November 2005
Novel vanadium halide redox flow battery patent-application August 2006
Perfluorinated Membranes and Improved Electrolytes for Redox Cells and Batteries patent-application November 2008
Novel vanadium chloride/polyhalide redox flow battery journal October 2003
Progress in Flow Battery Research and Development journal June 2011
Investigation of the V(V)/V(IV) system for use in the positive half-cell of a redox battery journal October 1985

Cited By (2)


Similar Records

Related Subjects