Redox Flow Battery Campus
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schumacher
- Project team : Gaël Mourouga, Jakub Wlodarczyk
- Project budget : EUR 3'796'578
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes (Horizon 2020 / Projekt Nr. 765289)
- Project partner : Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Institut für Chemische Technologie, Amer-Sil SA, Bar-Ilan University, French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS, Elestor BV, Hungarian Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Jenabatteries GmbH, Johnson Matthey plc, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Universität Stuttgart / Institut für Maschinenelemente
- Contact person : Jürgen Schumacher
Description
FlowCamp is a research and training project funded by the
European Union’s Marie-Sklodowska-Curie programme. FlowCamp
involves 11 partner organisations from 8 different countries, who
will recruit 15 PhD students for the project.
RESEARCH in FlowCamp aims to improve materials for
high-performance, low-cost next-generation redox-flow
batteries.
Renewable energy sources like wind turbines require large-scale,
stationary energy storage systems to balance out fluctuations in
energy generation. Redox-flow batteries are considered to be one of
the most promising solutions. The recruited fellows will develop
materials (membranes, electrodes, electrolytes, catalysts, sealing
materials) and macrohomogeneous models for three next generation
RFBs (hydrogen-bromine, organic and zinc-air systems). They will
then upscale the new systems to prototype level, and validate them
using the cutting-edge battery testing facilities available for the
prestigious German-funded RedoxWind project at Fraunhofer ICT.
The new RFB technologies can be combined in energy storage systems
tailored to a wide variety of application scenarios, with lower
cost, longer service life and higher efficiency than conventional
(e.g. Li-ion) storage devices.
High-quality individualised TRAINING in scientific and
complementary skills, and a structured programme of training units,
will provide the fellows with unique interdisciplinary competence
in electrochemistry, material science and cell design /
engineering, as well as an overview of different redox-flow battery
technologies and their implementation at prototype level. FlowCamp
will consequently go far beyond existing electrochemical training,
in a field with a high and growing research demand.
Further information
Publications
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Wlodarczyk, Jakub Karol; Schärer, Roman Pascal; Friedrich, Andreas; Schumacher, Jürgen,
2024.
Upscaling of reactive mass transport through porous electrodes in aqueous flow batteries.
Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
171(020544).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad258e
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Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Baltes, Norman; Friedrich, K. Andreas; Schumacher, Jürgen,
2023.
Electrochimica Acta.
461(142640).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142640
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Tsehaye, Misgina Tilahun; Mourouga, Gaël; Schmidt, Thomas J.; Schumacher, Jürgen; Velizarov, Svetlozar; Van der Bruggen, Bart; Alloin, Fannie; Iojoiu, Cristina,
2023.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
173, pp. 113059.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.113059
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Mourouga, Gaël; Chery, Déborah; Baudrin, Emmanuel; Randriamahazaka, Hyacinthe; Schmidt, Thomas J.; Schumacher, Juergen O.,
2022.
iScience.
25(9), pp. 104901.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104901
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Mourouga, Gaël; Baudrin, Emmanuel; Courty, Mathieu; Schmidt, Thomas J.; Schumacher, Jürgen,
2021.
In:
17th Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (MODVAL 17), online, 20-22 April 2021.
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Mourouga, Gaël; Sansone, Caterina; Alloin, Fannie; Iojoiu, Cristina; Schumacher, Jürgen,
2019.
A multicomponent diffusion model for organic redox flow battery membranes [poster].
In:
Krewer, Ulrike; Laue, Vincent; Redeker, Andreas, eds.,
16th symposium on modeling and experimental validation of electrochemical energy technologies (ModVal 2019) : book of abstracts.
ModVal 2019, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-13 March 2019.
Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2792
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Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Cantu, Brenda; Fischer, Peter; Küttinger, Michael; Schumacher, Jürgen,
2019.
An enhanced 1-D model of a hydrogen-bromine flow battery [poster].
In:
Krewer, Ulrike; Laue, Vincent; Redeker, Andreas, eds.,
16th symposium on modeling and experimental validation of electrochemical energy technologies (ModVal 2019) : book of abstracts.
ModVal 2019, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-13 March 2019.
Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2791