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Cycling of a Quinone-Bromide Flow Battery for Large-Scale Electrochemical Energy Storage

Tuesday, May 13, 2014: 15:00
Bonnet Creek Ballroom V, Lobby Level (Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek)
B. Huskinson, M. P. Marshak, M. R. Gerhardt, and M. J. Aziz (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
We report results from an aqueous quinone-bromine redox flow battery in which the negative electrode is a substituted quinone/hydroquinone couple and the positive electrode is bromine/hydrobromic acid. The redox active materials, which can be very inexpensive, contain no metals. Consequently, the cell appears to be a very attractive candidate for inexpensive, large-scale electrical energy storage.

We will report the performance of a small flow battery based on this couple.