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Characterization of vanadium flow battery

Abstract

This report summarizes the work done at Risoe DTU testing a vanadium flow battery as part of the project 'Characterisation of Vanadium Batteries' (ForskEl project 6555) with the partners PA Energy A/S and OI Electric A/S under the Danish PSO energy research program. A 15kW/120kWh vanadium battery has been installed as part of the distributed energy systems experimental facility, SYSLAB, at Risoe DTU. A test programme has been carried out to get hands-on experience with the technology, to characterize the battery from a power system point of view and to assess it with respect to integration of wind energy in the Danish power system. The battery has been in operation for 18 months. During time of operation the battery has not shown signs of degradation of performance. It has a round-trip efficiency at full load of approximately 60% (depending on temperature and SOC). The sources of the losses are power conversion in cell stacks/electrolyte, power converter, and auxiliary power consumption from pumps and controller. The response time for the battery is limited at 20kW/s by the ramp rate of the power converter. The battery can thus provide power and frequency support for the power system. Vanadium battery is a potential  More>>
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 2010
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
RISO-R-1753(EN)
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PSO-2003
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; VANADIUM; PERFORMANCE TESTING; POWER SYSTEMS; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES
OSTI ID:
1001403
Research Organizations:
Technical Univ. of Denmark, Risoe National Lab. for Sustainable Energy. Intelligent Energy Systems Programme, Roskilde (Denmark)
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: Contract FORSKEL-6555; ELKRAFT-3502; ISBN 978-87-550-3853-0; ISBN 978-87-550-3853-0; TRN: DK1101005
Availability:
Also available at http://www.risoe.dtu.dk/rispubl/reports/ris-r-1753.pdf; OSTI as DE01001403
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
29 p. pages
Announcement Date:
Jan 20, 2011

Citation Formats

Bindner, H, Ekman, C, Gehrke, O, and Isleifsson, F. Characterization of vanadium flow battery. Denmark: N. p., 2010. Web.
Bindner, H, Ekman, C, Gehrke, O, & Isleifsson, F. Characterization of vanadium flow battery. Denmark.
Bindner, H, Ekman, C, Gehrke, O, and Isleifsson, F. 2010. "Characterization of vanadium flow battery." Denmark.
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title = {Characterization of vanadium flow battery}
author = {Bindner, H, Ekman, C, Gehrke, O, and Isleifsson, F}
abstractNote = {This report summarizes the work done at Risoe DTU testing a vanadium flow battery as part of the project 'Characterisation of Vanadium Batteries' (ForskEl project 6555) with the partners PA Energy A/S and OI Electric A/S under the Danish PSO energy research program. A 15kW/120kWh vanadium battery has been installed as part of the distributed energy systems experimental facility, SYSLAB, at Risoe DTU. A test programme has been carried out to get hands-on experience with the technology, to characterize the battery from a power system point of view and to assess it with respect to integration of wind energy in the Danish power system. The battery has been in operation for 18 months. During time of operation the battery has not shown signs of degradation of performance. It has a round-trip efficiency at full load of approximately 60% (depending on temperature and SOC). The sources of the losses are power conversion in cell stacks/electrolyte, power converter, and auxiliary power consumption from pumps and controller. The response time for the battery is limited at 20kW/s by the ramp rate of the power converter. The battery can thus provide power and frequency support for the power system. Vanadium battery is a potential technology for storage based services to the power system provided investment and O and M cost are low enough and long term operation is documented. (Author)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {2010}
month = {Oct}
}