Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 327, Issue -, Pages 67-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.07.046
Keywords
Flow battery; Vanadium-ion crossover; Ion-transport mechanism; Porous separator; Numerical modeling
Funding
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [623313]
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In this work, we develop a two-dimensional, transient model to investigate the mechanisms of ion transport through a porous separator in VRFBs and their effects on battery performance. Commercial available separators with pore sizes of around 45 nm are particularly investigated and effects of key separator design parameters and operation modes are explored. We reveal that: i) the transport mechanism of vanadium-ion crossover through available separators is predominated by convection; ii) reducing the pore size below 15 nm effectively minimizes the convection-driven vanadium-ion crossover, while further reduction in migration- and diffusion-driven vanadium-ion crossover can be achieved only when the pore size is reduced to the level close to the sizes of vanadium ions; and iii) operation modes that can affect the pressure at the separator/electrode interface, such as the electrolyte flow rate, exert a significant influence on the vanadium-ion crossover rate through the available separators, indicating that it is critically important to equalize the pressure on each half-cell of a power pack in practical applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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