In July 2018 we have made an industry visit to one of the largest vanadium flow batteries with 15 MW / 60 MWh. The Battery is owned by Hokkaido Electric Power Corp. near Chitose on Hokkaido Island in Japan and built by Sumitomo Corp. The purpose of the battery is to stabilize the grid with frequency regulation but also with peak shift.
Flow Batteries are a core compentence of CENELEST. We have always joined the International Flow Battery Forum since its founding and are glad to join this very important conference also this year together with Chris, Maria and Jens N. This year Chris will give a talk about the results of Vanadium/Oxygen fuel cell development. More info: http://www.flowbatteryforum.com/
CENELEST has published two papers in a coming special issue about Flow Batteries in the Journal of Energy Chemistry. The first paper is a review about additives for vandium flow batteries.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095495617311270 The second is about the influence of electrochemical treatment of electrodes for vanadium flow batteries: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095495617311269
On October 12th and 13th 2018 CENELEST attended the meeting of IEC TC21/TC105 JWG7 on flow batteries in Sapporo/Japan. During two days of fruitful discussions we have worked on the finalisation of three different standards on flow batteries regarding safety, performance and general aspects.
