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Reference Number	EP/N508585/1
Title	Vanadium-Hydrogen flow battery for energy storage applications - a feasibility study
Status	Completed
Energy Categories	Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage) 100%;
Research Types	Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields	PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation	Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator	Professor NP (Nigel ) Brandon No email address given Earth Science and Engineering Imperial College London
Award Type	Standard
Funding Source	EPSRC
Start Date	01 May 2015
End Date	31 July 2016
Duration	15 months
Total Grant Value	£148,011
Industrial Sectors	Energy
Region	London
Programme	Energy : Energy
Investigators	Principal Investigator	Professor NP (Nigel ) Brandon , Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London (100.000%)
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Objectives
Abstract	In order to achieve the goals set up by DECC to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 it is imperative to generate a large amount of electricity via renewable sources. Being of an intermittent nature, the renewable sources for electricity generation require installation of energy storage devices. Redox flow cells are considered to be a strong candidate to store energy in the range of few kW/kWh up to tens of MW/MWh. An innovative technology, patented and developed by Imperial College London, has demonstrated excellent performance using a redox flow battery based on the reaction of hydrogen (gas) and vanadium (liquid), and the feasibility of combining this innovative chemistry into cells and stacks developed by Arcola Energy will be explored in this project, along with the potential value of the technology for grid scale storage application (by Alstom UK)
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Final Report	(none)
Added to Database	17/07/15