Characterization of Electrochemical Behavior for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

Zeng, Chao; Kim, Soowhan; Chen, Yunxiang; Fu, Yucheng; Bao, Jie; Xu, Zhijie; Wang, Wei

doi:10.1149/1945-7111/acadad

Title: Characterization of Electrochemical Behavior for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

Journal Article · Fri Dec 30 00:00:00 UTC 2022 · Journal of the Electrochemical Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acadad · OSTI ID:1909814

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Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Use of aqueous redox flow batteries with organic redox-active materials holds great promise for large-scale and sustainable energy storage. The development of low-cost, highly efficient aqueous redox flow batteries lies in a comprehensive understanding of the electrochemical behaviors of redox-active compounds. In this work, an alkaline redox battery with organic dihydroxyphenazine sulfonate (DHPS) anolyte and ferro-/ferricyanide (Fe(CN)₆) catholyte is investigated as a typical example of aqueous redox flow batteries using organic redox-active materials. The electrochemical kinetics of DHPS and Fe(CN)₆ are separately characterized using the symmetrical cell design. The resistance components are calculated directly from the experimental measurement. The key kinetic parameters are extracted and compared for DHPS and Fe(CN)₆ electrolytes. The extracted parameters are validated with symmetrical and full flow cell simulations at different operating conditions. Key parameters and internal loss are also compared with all-vanadium redox flow batteries, representing current state of the art. In addition, our extracted key parameters from a symmetrical flow cell are compared with the measured key parameters by cyclic voltammetry, a widely deployed electroanalytical technique. The cell performance prediction of DHPS anolyte on a 780 cm² interdigitated cell is made and found the power density is peaked at 475 mW cm^-2 at our measurement condition.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1909814

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-178207

Journal Information:: Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Journal Name: Journal of the Electrochemical Society Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 169; ISSN 0013-4651

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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