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Advanced Intermediate Temperature Sodium-Metal Halide (Na-MH) Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage Applications

Wednesday, 16 May 2018: 16:00
Room 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
H. J. Chang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), K. Jung (Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology), J. F. Bonnett, N. L. Canfield, X. Lu, V. Sprenkle, and G. Li (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Recently, sodium-metal halide (Na-MH, or also called ZEBRA) batteries have been extensively investigated due to its potential application for large scale energy storage systems. Particularly, compared to the conventional high temperature (> 280oC) ZEBRA batteries, a Na-MH battery operated at intermediate temperature (IT< 200oC) presents several advantages such as longer cycle life, lower battery manufacturing cost, and easier thermal management, etc. b″-alumina (Na2O×5.33 Al2O3) is typically used for IT Na-MH batteries as Na ion conducting solid-state electrolytes. Thus, the fabricating a thinner b″-alumina solid-state electrolytes (BASE) that results in a high Na ion conductivity is critical to improve performances of IT Na-MH batteries. In here, we will present a new fabrication process for the BASE with a double-layer structure that can drastically reduce the thickness of the BASE. We have examined the conductivity and morphology of new BASEs using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and SEM. The IT Na-MH batteries assembled using new BASEs are also tested up to 300 cycles, and show excellent energy density (~380 Wh/kg) and around trip efficiency (~95%).