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ICESI 1-4 March 2020 Sydney
Members of CENELEST are co-organising the 2020 Meeting of the International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI 2020) in Sydney. The International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI) is a new international professional organization focusing on the science…
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CENELEST at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
Chris and Jens together with the team Sunswift of the UNSW accompanied the preparations and the qualification for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Darwin/Australia.The World Solar Challenge is a car race in which solar-powered vehicles in different classes have…
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The effect of the counter ion for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
We have published an open access article about the effect of the counter ion in the electrolyte of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB). Sulphate and pure chloride based electrolytes have been compared regarding its electrochemical properties in half-cells and batteries.…
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CENELEST attended the 2019 Smart Energy Conference and Exhibition
Several CENELEST members took part in this year’s Smart Energy Conference and Exhibition in Sydney/Australia. In addition to presentations, numerous companies were represented as exhibitors at the two-day event. CENELEST participated as an exhibitor with its own booth. During the…
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CENELEST visited 9th IFBF
CENELEST attended the ninth International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) in Lausanne/Switzerland this July. Chris had a lecture about CENELEST and scientific results of the cooperation which will be reported separately later on. Jens N. participated in the discussion on standards…
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Vanadium Oxygen Fuel Cell utilising high concentration electrolyte
We published an open access article about a Vanadium Oxygen Fuel Cell (VOFC) utilising up to 3.6 mol/L high concentration vanadium electrolyte. Compared to Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, VOFCs allow much higher theoretical energy density by the replacement of the…
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Industry visit of 15 MW /60 MWh VRFB
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…
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CENELEST will attend the IFBF 2018 in Lausanne/Switzerland
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…
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CENELEST has published two papers in Journal of Energy Chemistry
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…
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Meeting of IEC TC21/TC105 JWG7 Flow Batteries
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,…