De elektriciteit die wordt geproduceerd door het Flow Energy Storage Battery-project

What is a flow battery?

Unlike traditional batteries, where the energy is stored in solid electrodes, flow batteries store energy in liquid electrolytes contained in external tanks, allowing for scalable energy capacity and rapid response to varying power demands.

How can MIT help develop flow batteries?

A modeling framework developed at MIT can help speed the development of flow batteries for large-scale, long-duration electricity storage on the future grid.

Are flow batteries intrinsically linked?

Because of the specific technology, stored energy in and power supplied by flow batteries are not intrinsically linked. This feature makes them especially suitable for storage systems for renewables, especially for uses with long discharge times.

Can a flow battery be modeled?

MIT researchers have demonstrated a modeling framework that can help model flow batteries. Their work focuses on this electrochemical cell, which looks promising for grid-scale energy storage—except for one problem: Current flow batteries rely on vanadium, an energy-storage material that’s expensive and not always readily available.

Should flow batteries be considered a growing technology?

Flow batteries should be considered a growing technology: further developments are needed to reduce costs and increase overall efficiency in order to rise to lithium system standards. A drop in prices in the last decade has led to the widespread diffusion of lithium batteries in storage systems.

Why are flow batteries popular?

Flow batteries are popular due to their potential for long lifetimes and low costs. This is largely due to their unique design, which differs from everyday batteries used in phones and electric vehicles that have solid charge-storing materials.