Flow Battery Molecular Reactant Stability Determined by Symmetric Cell Cycling Methods
Abstract
We present an unbalanced compositionally-symmetric flow cell method for revealing and quantifying different mechanisms for capacity fade in redox flow batteries that are based on molecular energy storage. We utilize it, accompanied in some cases by a corresponding static-cell cycling method, to study capacity fade in cells comprising anthraquinone di-sulfonate, di-hydroxy anthraquinone, iron hexacyanide, methyl viologen, and bis-trimethylammoniopropyl viologen. In all cases the cycling capacity decay is reasonably consistent with exponential in time and is independent of the number of charge-discharge cycles imposed. By introducing pauses at various states of charge of the capacity-limiting side during cycling, we show that in some cases the temporal fade time constant is dependent on the state of charge. These observations suggest that molecular lifetime is dominated by chemical rather than electrochemical mechanisms. These mechanisms include irrecoverable chemical decomposition and recoverable interactions with cell materials. We conclude with recommendations for cell cycling protocols for evaluating stability of single electrolytes.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1437213
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1510072
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000767
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the Electrochemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of the Electrochemical Society Journal Volume: 165 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4651
- Publisher:
- The Electrochemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; capacity fade; decomposition; flow battery
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Goulet, Marc-Antoni, and Aziz, Michael J. Flow Battery Molecular Reactant Stability Determined by Symmetric Cell Cycling Methods. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1149/2.0891807jes.
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title = {Flow Battery Molecular Reactant Stability Determined by Symmetric Cell Cycling Methods},
author = {Goulet, Marc-Antoni and Aziz, Michael J.},
abstractNote = {We present an unbalanced compositionally-symmetric flow cell method for revealing and quantifying different mechanisms for capacity fade in redox flow batteries that are based on molecular energy storage. We utilize it, accompanied in some cases by a corresponding static-cell cycling method, to study capacity fade in cells comprising anthraquinone di-sulfonate, di-hydroxy anthraquinone, iron hexacyanide, methyl viologen, and bis-trimethylammoniopropyl viologen. In all cases the cycling capacity decay is reasonably consistent with exponential in time and is independent of the number of charge-discharge cycles imposed. By introducing pauses at various states of charge of the capacity-limiting side during cycling, we show that in some cases the temporal fade time constant is dependent on the state of charge. These observations suggest that molecular lifetime is dominated by chemical rather than electrochemical mechanisms. These mechanisms include irrecoverable chemical decomposition and recoverable interactions with cell materials. We conclude with recommendations for cell cycling protocols for evaluating stability of single electrolytes.},
doi = {10.1149/2.0891807jes},
journal = {Journal of the Electrochemical Society},
number = 7,
volume = 165,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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