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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 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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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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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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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 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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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,…

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