News
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New Paper – Adjustment of Electrolyte Composition for All-Vanadium Flow Batteries and Its Effect on the Thermal Stability of Electrolyte for Positive and Negative Half-Cells
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ente.202300739 Commercial electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries is modified by dilution with sulfuric and phosphoric acid so that series of electrolytes with total vanadium, total sulfate, and phosphate concentrations in the range from 1.4 to 1.7 m, 3.8 to 4.7 m, and…
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SONAR final meeting in Karlsruhe
The final meeting of the EU project SONAR took place on 13.12.23. As a reminder: In SONAR, seven different research institutions worked on the development of a computational high-throughput screening process for novel organic active materials for redox flow batteries.…
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Meeting at the University of Queensland
On November 21, 23, a meeting between ESIAP, QUT, Fraunhofer ICT and UNSW took place in Brisbane at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering. The subject of the discussions was the future cooperation between ESIAP, Fraunhofer ICT, UQ…
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Visit of ESIAP and Queensland University of Technology
On November 20, 2023, a meeting was held in Brisbane at the invitation of Energy Storage Asia Pacific at their location followed by a visit to the Queensland University of Technology. Also present was Prof. Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, developer of the…
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Lawrence H. Thaller passed away
Lawrence Thaller passed away on June 20, 2022 at the age of 88. He will be remembered for the term “redox flow battery” and his early work on the subject in the early 1970s. He laid the foundation for flow…
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Fraunhofer ICT and University of Queensland have signed MoU for research on iron redox flow batteries
University of Queensland and Fraunhofer ICT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for research and development of iron/iron redox flow batteries. The signing was attended by Hon. Dick Cameron, Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, who emphasized…
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UNSW enters the top 20
UNSW Sydney has moved up 26 spots in the 2024 QS World University Rankings to equal 19th alongside its crosstown counterpart the University of Sydney. The two universities are now ranked equal second in Australia. The city of Sydney now…
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SONAR General Assembly at DTU
Tuesday 20st of June we had our last General Asssembly Meeting of the project SONAR. The meeting took place in the facilities of DTU in Copenhagen / Denmark.
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New Paper! – Techno-Economic Optimization of Flow Batteries Using the Optimization Potential to Prioritize Different Optimization Possibilities
In order to achieve a successful broad market entry of redox flow batteries, not only the technical performance but also the economic efficiency of the system is important. Known flow batteries must therefore be optimized techno-economically for specific applications. Not…
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Free SONAR Workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Flow Batteries
This one day workshop addresses the modelling approaches and simulation techniques developed in SONAR to capture the physical processes within and around a redox flow battery. Besides the introduction of the most important concepts, this course provides several presentations, live…