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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 580, Issue -, Pages 110-116Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.03.014
Keywords
VRFB; Polybenzimidazole; FAA3; Blend membranes
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- German-Korean joint SME R&D projects program of MOTIE/KIAT [20151732]
- Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea [20172420108550]
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PBI membranes are recently discussed as stable, well performing membranes for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB). Blending meta-PBI with an anion exchange polymer (FAA3i) slightly reduces the coulomb efficiency from 99.7 to 97.8%, but strongly increases the voltage efficiency from 82.5 to 88.2%, leading to an increased energy efficiency (86.2% at 80mAcm(-2)), exceeding that of meta-PBI (82.2%) and N212 (83%). Apparently, since the conductivity of sulfuric acid has a maximum around a concentration of 3.8 M, the concentration of the absorbed acid has a dominant influence on the conductivity. Addition of FAA3i decreases the concentration of the acid absorbed by PBI membranes. Furthermore, an ex-situ stability test in 1.5M V5+ solutions in 2M sulfuric acid for 87 days showed a very high stability for meta-PBI and Nafion 212, while the commercial FAA3 membrane disintegrated into pieces. Blending of meta-PBI and FAA3 decreased the stability, as proven by formation of V4+, but all tested blend membranes retained their membrane shape and could still be handled. Blending with FAA3 reduces the tensile strength and Young's modulus of meta-PBI, and doping with sulfuric acid leads to a further decrease in the mechanical strength. However, an acid doped PF-21 still showed a tensile strength of 37 MPa and a Young's modulus of 0.7 GPa.
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