A General, Analytical Model for Flow Battery Costing and Design

Ma, Rose X.; Setzler, Brian P.; Gong, Ke; Gu, Shuang; Yan, Yushan

doi:10.1149/2.1201809jes

Title: A General, Analytical Model for Flow Battery Costing and Design

Journal Article · 19 July 2018 · Journal of the Electrochemical Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1149/2.1201809jes · OSTI ID:1460918

Ma, Rose X. ^[1]; Setzler, Brian P. ^[1]; Gong, Ke ^[1]; Gu, Shuang ^[1];

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Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

We expound a versatile analytical model to characterize redox flow batteries (RFBs) from the cell to stack scales. It is validated against measurements of our own RFB, zinc-ferricyanide, as well as against those from the literature of competitive RFBs. We also put forth a heuristic framework for optimization of capital cost and design parameters, as well as consequent findings: that modeling enables even-handed comparison of even pre-commercial RFB concepts, with zinc/ferricyanide as the most cost-effective candidate so far; and that overpotential characteristics and engineering strategies are highly RFB dependent, but readily probed by a robust model.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000346

OSTI ID:: 1460918

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1510083

Journal Information:: Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 165, Issue 10; ISSN 0013-4651

Publisher:: The Electrochemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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