Elimination of active species crossover in a room temperature, neutral pH, aqueous flow battery using a ceramic NaSICON membrane

Allcorn, Eric; Nagasubramanian, Ganesan; Pratt, III, Harry D.; Spoerke, Erik David; Ingersoll, David

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.12.041

Elimination of active species crossover in a room temperature, neutral pH, aqueous flow battery using a ceramic NaSICON membrane

Journal Article · Wed Jan 03 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Journal of Power Sources

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.12.041· OSTI ID:1421655

Allcorn, Eric ^[1]; Nagasubramanian, Ganesan ^[1]; Pratt, III, Harry D. ^[1]; Spoerke, Erik David ^[1]; Ingersoll, David ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Flow batteries are an attractive technology for energy storage of grid-scale renewables. However, performance issues related to ion-exchange membrane (IEM) fouling and crossover of species have limited the success of flow batteries. In this work we propose the use of the solid-state sodium-ion conductor NaSICON as an IEM to fully eliminate active species crossover in room temperature, aqueous, neutral pH flow batteries. We measure the room temperature conductivity of NaSICON at 2.83–4.67 mS cm^–1 and demonstrate stability of NaSICON in an aqueous electrolyte with conductivity values remaining near 2.5 mS cm^–1 after 66 days of exposure. Charge and discharge of a full H-cell battery as well as symmetric cycling in a flow battery configuration using NaSICON as an IEM in both cases demonstrates the capability of the solid-state IEM. Extensive analysis of aged cells through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and UV–vis spectroscopy show no contaminant species having crossed over the NaSICON membrane after 83 days of exposure, yielding an upper limit to the permeability of NaSICON of 4 × 10^–10 cm² min^–1. As a result, the demonstration of NaSICON as an IEM enables a wide new range of chemistries for application to flow batteries that would previously be impeded by species crossover and associated degradation.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1421655

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1548880

Report Number(s):: SAND--2017-13764J; 659654

Journal Information:: Journal of Power Sources, Journal Name: Journal of Power Sources Journal Issue: C Vol. 378; ISSN 0378-7753

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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