Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 247, Issue -, Pages 489-496Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.08.101
Keywords
Carbon slurry; Electrochemical flow capacitor; Energy storage; Flow battery; Flowable electrode; Supercapacitor
Funding
- Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy. Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Group [001389-002]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1242519]
- NSF IGERT Program [0654313]
- NSF I-Corps Program [1242519]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [1002809]
- NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship [1026641]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Industrial Innovation & Partnersh [1242519] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [0654313] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Human Resource Development
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1026641] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The electrochemical flow capacitor (EFC) is an electrical energy storage concept recently introduced for grid-scale energy storage applications. The EFC utilizes flowable carbon-based electrodes as the active material in a flow battery type architecture for capacitive storage and recovery of energy. Charged slurry can be stored in external reservoirs until it is needed, enabling scalable energy storage to satisfy a variety of large-scale applications. Here, the capacitance and conductivity of EFC slurry electrodes were measured as a function of flow rate (from 0 to 10 ml min(-1)) and flow cell channel depth (electrode 'thickness', ranging from 0.5 to 3 mm). The effect of salt concentration in the electrolyte was also explored. The interfacial resistance associated with the current collector/slurry interface was found to constitute a large portion of the total cell resistance. Bulk slurry conductivity was found to vary significantly with changes in electrolyte concentration, flow rate and channel depth. Very respectable capacitance values of up to similar to 30 F ml(-1) (150 F g(-1)) were obtained during intermittent flow operation. However, significant underutilization of the slurry due to increased ohmic losses at larger channel depths was observed, as evidenced by a rapid decay in capacitance with increasing channel depth. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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