Flow battery
A flow battery, or redox flow battery (after reduction–oxidation), is a type of electrochemical cell where chemical energy is provided by two chemical components dissolved in liquids that are
Sumitomo Electric has built flow batteries for use in Taiwan, Belgium, Australia, Morocco and California. Hokkaido's flow battery farm was the biggest in the world when it opened in April 2022—until China deployed one eight times larger that can match the output of a natural gas plant.
Flow batteries can be classified using different schemes: 1) Full-flow (where all reagents are in fluid phases: gases, liquids, or liquid solutions), such as vanadium redox flow battery vs semi-flow, where one or more electroactive phases are solid, such as zinc-bromine battery.
One such membraneless flow battery announced in August 2013 produced a maximum power density of 0.795 W/cm 2, three times more than other membraneless systems—and an order of magnitude higher than lithium-ion batteries. In 2018, a macroscale membraneless RFB capable of recharging and recirculation of the electrolyte streams was demonstrated.
The fundamental difference between conventional and flow batteries is that energy is stored in the electrode material in conventional batteries, while in flow batteries it is stored in the electrolyte.
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