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ion Ventures, a modern utility and energystorage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.
BC Hydro has selected S&C Electric Company, a renewable energy integration company, for a sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery energystorage project intended to improve service reliability for a remote mountain community in British Columbia.
One of the more promising candidates for batteries beyond the current standard of lithium-ion materials is the sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery. Na-ion is particularly attractive because of the greater abundance and lower cost of sodium compared with lithium. In addition, when cycled at high voltage (4.5
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled a utility-scale sodium-sulfur battery energystorage system ( earlier post ) pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. The system has a 4 megawatt capacity, and can store more than six hours of energy.
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energystorage and transportation applications. A 60 mAh single-layer pouch cell was also fabricated and demonstrated stable performance.
GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new EnergyStorage business. GE is also looking at using the batteries in heavy-duty hybrid applications such as in buses, locomotives and mining vehicles.
The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. Tehachapi Wind EnergyStorage Project.
GE’s EnergyStorage business announced $63 million in new Durathon sodium-halide battery orders since the business launched in July. The technology is unique because it can function in a variety of extreme conditions and store as much energy as lead-acid batteries twice its size while lasting up to 10 times as long.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded $250,000 to each of eight companies and research centers to develop working prototypes for a wide range of energy-storage technologies. The recipients are all members of the NY Battery and EnergyStorage Technology ( NY-BEST ) Consortium.
The hybrid systems research team at GE Global Research has successfully demonstrated a dual battery system for an electric transit bus, pairing a high-energy density sodium metal halide battery with a high-power lithium battery. —Lembit Salasoo, Senior Electrical Engineer and Principal Investigator. Click to enlarge.
The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energystorage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Sodium-nickel chloride batteries.
The new projects in four focus areas join the existing Faraday Institution research projects that collectively aim to deliver the organisation’s mission to accelerate breakthroughs in energystorage technologies to benefit the UK in the global race to electrification. Next generation sodium ion batteries–NEXGENNA.
Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Sodium (Na) is an earth-abundant and inexpensive element, and shares many properties with lithium.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a nanometric graphite-like anode for sodium ion (Na + storage), formed by stacked graphene sheets functionalized only on one side, termed Janus graphene. The estimated sodiumstorage up to C 6.9 100 to 150 mA h g ? 100 to 150 mA h g ?1
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will award $8 million to help develop or commercialize 19 advanced energystorage projects. College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany. Lithium-air storage systems that could have applications in vehicle or grid systems.
Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy ( earlier post ) has closed out a £3.5-million LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. To date LiNa Energy has secured more than £7 million (US$9.5
British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Oxford University was also a partner. Earlier post.)
Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials.
The research group of Professor Xiangwu Zhang from North Carolina State University presents the concept of high-performance sodium-ion batteries that applies special electrode preparation methods. The Open Innovation Contest on energystorage is coordinated by the BASF research unit “Process Research and Chemical Engineering.
containing both cathode and anode properties in the same body—for sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries by adopting a metal-organic framework (MOF) to incorporate single Yttrium atoms in a nitrogen-doped rhombododecahedron carbon host (Y SAs/NC). Researchers in China have designed a high-performance Janus electrode—i.e., 2c07655.
Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energystorage.
nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. FeS 2 is particularly attractive for energystorage technology due to its earth abundance, low toxicity, and low raw material cost. … nanometers in size.
Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energystorage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.
The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies. that boosts the energy capacity via nanotechnology-enabled self-assembly of functional nanocomponents, reducing?the
Stellantis Ventures became a strategic investor of France-based Tiamat, which is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. According to the legacy automaker, Tiamat is the first company in the world to recently commercialize sodium-ion technology in an electrified product.
Stationary energystorage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required. Existing energystorage technologies cannot satisfy these requirements. —Wessells et al. It fits perfectly— really, really nicely. —Yi Cui.
For the project, GE provided its Grid IQ Microgrid Control System (MCS), as well as the engineering design services, to help PowerStream build a microgrid, which uses renewable energy resources (wind, solar); a natural-gas generator; and energystorage devices (including GE’s Durathon sodium-metal halide batteries, earlier post ) to provide electricity (..)
Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Advanced Batteries for Transportation and Renewable EnergyStorage. Fuel-cell related proposals should be directed to other CBET programs, depending on emphasis.
million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. —Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M and director of the new center.
—Donghai Wang, professor of mechanical and chemical engineering and corresponding author. The same approach was also applied to design stable SEI layers for sodium and zinc anodes. The Office of Vehicle Technologies in the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation supported this work. V Li|LiNi 0.5
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science and College of Engineering have developed a semiliquid lithium metal-based anode (SLMA) that represents a new paradigm in battery design for solid electrolyte batteries. The interdisciplinary research team published their findings in the current issue of Joule.
The discovery potentially could shift the whole paradigm of high-power electrochemical energystorage with new design principles for electrodes, said Xianyong Wu, a postdoctoral scholar at OSU and the first author of the paper published in the journal Nature Energy. —Xiulei Ji.
The sodium alanate material used to store the hydrogen resides within the tubes. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material—sodium alanate. Jim Spearot, GM lead executive for hydrogen storage.
Barsoum and Dr. Yury Gogotsi, professors in Drexel’s College of Engineering, discovered atomically thin, two-dimensional materials—similar to graphene—that have good electrical conductivity and a surface that is hydrophilic, or can hold liquids. A paper on their work is published in Science. About three years ago, Dr. Michel W.
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award more than $13 million to projects in the Energy for Sustainability program. The goal of the Energy for Sustainability program is to support fundamental engineering research that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and fuels, and for energystorage.
Lithium-intercalation compounds and sodium-intercalation compounds are used for anode and cathode, respectively. During charging (or discharging), the storage (or release) of Li + takes place at anode, and the release (or storage) of Na + occurs at cathode. Second, this electrochemical method is green and energy efficient.
Focus was placed on how best to strengthen the UK’s position in electrochemical energystorage research and make UK industry more competitive, building on the foundations of the three years of investigation already performed.
We are funding innovative projects in a number of key areas which include internal combustion engine technologies, energystorage and management, lightweight structures and new propulsion technologies. High energysodium-nickel battery cell for EV application (Acronym: NINACELL). EDS TurboClaw.
A big cost reduction potential thus lies in process engineering. TFT develops technologies for electrode production within CELEST—Center for Electrochemical EnergyStorage Ulm & Karlsruhe—one of the biggest battery research platforms worldwide. Now, the group has combined coating and drying in a simultaneous concept.
The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: EnergyStorage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Conventional Energy (1 project). ENERGYSTORAGE. Electronville: High-Amperage EnergyStorage Device-EnergyStorage for the Neighborhood. Earlier post.) Water (1 project).
The offering thus helps utilities make informed decisions before they invest in new technologies—for example, modeling the impact of alternative energy sources and advanced technologies on the grid to improve investment and operational efficiency. This is [also] used for the analysis afterward.
Photo: China Southern Power Grid EnergyStorage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energystorage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid EnergyStorage. Its initial storage capacity is said to be 10 megawatt hours (MWh). Get started here. –
lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Attempts to develop Li-alloy anodes have generally failed to provide the volumetric energy density required for portable batteries. eV, which promises to offer acceptable operation at lower temperatures.
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