FUEL CELLS AND FLOW BATTERIES - CHANCES AND CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SUPPLY
The upcoming innovation of a sustainable energy supply and smart grids will clearly change the infrastructure of the global energy supply, distribution and use. One key issue is the increase of efficiency of energy utilization and energy conversion under the condition that the importance of electricity will further increase. Thus electrochemical flow processes as fuel cells and flow batteries are going to become key technologies in this innovation process. The increasing amount of fluctuating renewable electric power generation needs the installation ofelectric storage. Hydrogen economy might be one solution because classic secondary batteries as batch processes have limits regarding the storage of larger amounts of electric work. The development of flow batteries changed the process of classic design of electrochemical batch process for storing electricity to a flow process like a fuel cell. For further development and a future research strategy it is important to understand in how far similarities and synergies to fuel cells can be identified.
Wolfgang Winkler
Institute for Energy Systems and Fuel Cell Technology Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Berliner Tor 21 D 20099 Hamburg
国际会议
大连
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2012-05-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）