Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 325, Issue -, Pages 129-139Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.05.130
Keywords
Large scale electricity energy storage; Salinity gradient energy; Ion-exchange membranes; Flow batteries; Reverse electrodialysis; Aqueous based battery
Funding
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, the Northern Netherlands Province
- Province of Fryslan, the Northern Netherlands Province
- research theme Blue Energy
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Unlike traditional fossil fuel plants, the wind and the sun provide power only when the renewable resource is available. To accommodate large scale use of renewable energy sources for efficient power production and utilization, energy storage systems are necessary. Here, we introduce a scalable energy storage system which operates by performing cycles during which energy generated from renewable resource is first used to produce highly concentrated brine and diluate, followed up mixing these two solutions in order to generate power. In this work, we present theoretical results of the attainable energy density as function of salt type and concentration. A linearized Nernst-Planck model is used to describe water, salt and charge transport. We validate our model with experiments over wide range of sodium chloride concentrations (0.025-3 m) and current densities (-49 to +33 A m(-2)). We find that depending on current density, charge and discharge steps have significantly different thermodynamic efficiency. In addition, we show that at optimal current densities, mechanisms of energy dissipation change with salt concentration. We find the highest thermodynamic efficiency at low concentrate concentrations. When using salt concentrations above 1 m, water and co-ion transport contribute to high energy dissipation due to irreversible mixing. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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