IFBF 2022 List of Conference Papers

Print ISBN: 978-1-9162004-2-5
Digital ISBN: 978-1-9162003-2-6

Effect of ammonium ions on a sulphonated anthraquinone-iron sulphate flow battery
Page 12
Luis F. Arenas, Thomas Turek
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Research Center for Energy Storage Technologies, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Application of polyurethane-, epoxy- and silicone-based sealants, coatings and adhesives in redox flow batteries
Page 14
Andreas Arlt, Theresa Haisch, Armin Laube
Business Development, WEVO-CHEMIE GmbH, Germany
DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Germany
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Germany

POM based sustainable electrolytes
Page 16
Angela Barros, Unai Eletxigerra, Beñat Artetxe, Estibaliz Aranzabe, Juan Manuel Gutierrez-Zorrilla
Surface Chemistry and Nanotechnology Unit, Tekniker, Spain
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Department, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain

HIGREEW: Steps towards prototype construction of an AORFB
Page 18
Aitor Beloki, Nerea Marquinez, Eduardo Sánchez-Díez, Michael Schäffer, Petr Mazur
CIC energiGUNE, Spain
Department of Applied Electrochemistry, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany
New Technologies – Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Environmental modelling of a MW-scale vanadium flow battery – scenarios up to 2050
Page 20
Nick Blume, Maik Becker, Thomas Turek, Christine Minke
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Research Center Energy Storage Technologies, Germany
Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing, Recycling and Circular Economy Systems, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

A design tool for tubular redox flow stacks
Page 22
Fabian Brandes, Peter Kuhn, Simon Ressel, Thorsten Struckmann
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

A new low-cost process to formulate mixed species Fe-Cr electrolytes directly from chromite for use in iron chromium flow batteries
Page 24
Peter Chennells
Research and Development Department, RedoxOne, Cyprus

Lessons from grid-scale VFB commercial deployments
Page 26
Jean-Louis Cols
Invinity Energy Systems, UK

Recent progress in organic-based aqueous flow batteries: synthetic and regeneration techniques
Page 28
Eric M. Fell, Yan Jing, Min Wu, Meisam Bahari, Evan Wenbo Zhao, Marc-Antoni Goulet, Shijian Jin, Ali Davoodi, Erlendur Jónsson, Clare P. Grey, Roy G. Gordon, Michael J. Aziz
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

From laboratory to field: transferring single cell performance to deployment-scale systems
Page 30
Filippo Fenini, Mohammed Rahimi, Sara Noriega Oreiro, Anders Bentien
Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark

Progress in the development of an electrically rechargeable zinc-air flow battery with a two-electrode setup
Page 32
Sascha Genthe, Ulrich Kunz, Thomas Turek
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Shapes, magnitudes and effects of differential pressure-induced membrane deformations in flow batteries
Page 34
Jan Girschik, Leonie Sara Plaga, Arkadi Hahn, Anna Grevé, Christian Doetsch
Electrochemical Energy Storage, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany

How do we achieve more scale in the flow battery industry?
Page 36
Alan Greenshields, Julian Tanner
ESS Inc., USA
Tuva Partners, UK

Energy in a bottle – flow battery hibernation
Page 38
Steven Hickey
Redflow, Australia

Identifying market opportunities and enablers for vanadium flow batteries
Page 40
John Hilbert III, Mikhail Nikomarov, Pritil Gunjan, Maria Chavez, Dan Power
Vanitec, UK
Bushveld Energy, South Africa
Guidehouse Insights, USA

Low-cost ion exchange membrane development
Page 43
Chiari Van Cauter, Yun Li, Ivo Vankelecom
Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Belgium

Performance limitations of the Hydrogen-X flow batteries
Page 44
Johanes Antonius Hugo, Wiebrand Kout
Elestor B.V., The Netherlands

The demonstration and operation of a vanadium flow battery system for renewable energy integration
Page 46
Jeehyang Huh, Shin Han
H2, Inc., Republic of Korea

Correlating observables for state of charge and state of health monitoring and crossover modelling of vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 48
Niklas Janshen, Antonio Chica Lara, Thorsten Struckmann
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Instituto de Tecnología Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Novel organic cathode materials for aqueous flow battery
Page 50
Atsushi Kaiho, Shinya Nagatsuka and Go Mizutani
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd, Japan

Detailed model of a vanadium flow battery with the focus on porous separators and crossover mechanisms
Page 52
Alexander Kubicka, Thomas Turek
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

In situ and in operando detection of redox reactions during vanadium transport in ion exchange membranes
Page 54
Torben Lemmermann, Maik Becker, Thomas Turek, Ulrich Kunz
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Research Center Energy Storage Technologies (EST), Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Demonstration of a near-neutral Fe-Cr flow battery: IMABATTERY®
Page 56
Liyu Li, Qingtao Luo, and Qinqing Shi
Cougar Creek Technologies, LLC., USA

Comparison study of vanadium flow battery systems from different manufacturers
Page 58
Yifeng Li, Thomas Lüth
J.M. Voith SE & Co. KG, Germany

Off-grid renewable energy storage in an iron chromium flow battery for the South African energy storage sector
Page 60
Nico Mans, Henning Krieg, Dolf Bruinsma and Derik van der Westhuizen
Hydrometallurgy Group, Chemical Resource Beneficiation, North-West University, South Africa
Bruinsma Solutions, South Africa

New fluorinated sealant for vanadium flow battery
Page 62
Joseph Epoupa Mengou, Stefanno Cardamone, Alain Verschuere
Eni spa- Renewable, New Energies and Material Science Research Center, Italy
3M, Belgium

Vanadium market supply and demand
Page 64
Terry Perles
US Vanadium, USA

Electrochemical rebalancing process for vanadium flow batteries: sizing procedure and economic assessment
Page 68
Nicola Poli, Andrea Trovò, Massimo Guarnieri
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Interdepartmental Centre Giorgio Levi Cases for Energy Economics and Technology, University of Padua, Italy

The role of flow batteries in the decarbonisation of shipping
Page 70
Christopher Price, James Hancock, Anthony Price
Swanbarton Limited, UK

Towards 100: A material-based cost minimization for different flow battery systems
Page 72
Athul Seshadri Ramanujam, Veselin Miroslavov Veselinov, José Angel Horcajada Sanchez de Pablo, Aitor Gijon Mora
Energy Storage Solutions S.L.U., Spain

Dimensioning, control and placement of storage devices in the grid – An integrated simulation approach for vanadium flow batteries
Page 74
Christina Schubert, Stephan Leyer, Jean-Regis Hadji-Minaglou,  Karl-Heinz Pettinger
Technology Centre Energy, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Germany
Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Two large scale flow battery systems towards net-zero carbon emissions future
Page 76
Toshikazu Shibata, Shuji Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Nagaoka, Takashi Yano
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Japan

Investigation of zinc deposition in a zinc / polyiodide redox flow battery
Page 78
Lukas Siefert, Falko Mahlendorf, Harry Hoster
Department of Energy Technology, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

High-efficiency and large-scale VRB-ESS® support carbon neutrality goals
Page 80
Jim Stover, Bo Hu
VRB Energy Inc., China

StaTuR – Redox flow stacks with tubular cell design
Page 82
Thorsten Struckmann, Fabian Brandes, Peter Kuhn, Niklas Janshen, Armin Laube, Simon Ressel, Claudia Weidlich, Christian Modrzynski, Michael Jeske, Simon Fischer
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
DFI – DECHEMA Research Institute, Germany
Fumatech BWT GmbH, Germany
Uniwell Rohrsysteme GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Benchmarking flow cell performance
Page 84
Adam Whitehead
Invinity Energy Systems, UK

Pore-scale resolved 3D Simulations of aqueous organic flow batteries
Page 88
Amadeus Wolf, Hermann Nirschl
Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

A sub-millimetre, bundled co-axial microtubular flow battery cell with ultra-high volumetric power density
Page 90
Yutong Wu, Fengyi Zhang, Ting Wang, Xing Xie, Ryan P. Lively, Nian Liu
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

IFBF 2021 List of Conference Papers

Print ISBN: 978-1-9162004-0-1
Digital ISBN: 978-1-9162003-0-2

Pulsed charging protocol for a high efficiency zinc-iron rechargeable flow battery
Page 16
Alessandra Accogli, Luca Bertoli, Matteo Salerno, Gabriele Panzeri, Luca Magagnin
Surface and Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory, Dip. Chimica, Materiali e Ing. Chimica G.Natta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The impact of high-frequency ripple currents on a full-cell vanadium redox flow battery
Page 19
Md Parvez Akter, Jie Bao*, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

Characterisation of polyurethane, epoxy and silicone-based sealants and adhesives for their potential use in vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 22
Andreas, Arlt^,, Max, Poxleitner, Ralf, Weishaupt
Business Development, Wevo-Chemie GmbH, Germany

Electrolyte imbalance determination of a vanadium redox flow battery by potential-step analysis
Page 25
Jan grosse Austing^1*, Kirstin Beyer², Barbara Satola², Timo Di Nardo^3
1 VANEVO GmbH, Germany
² DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Germany
³ EWE GASSPEICHER, Germany

Modelling of aqueous organic redox flow batteries: into the research of optimal electrolyte potential
Page 27
Quentin Cacciuttolo, Martin Petit, Dominique Audigier, David Pasquier
IFP Energies Nouvelles, France

Proof of concept of an innovative barrier layer in vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 29
Marco Cecchetti^1*, Thomas Allen Ebaugh², Haoran Yu², Leonard Bonville², Chiara Gambaro³, Laura Meda³, Radenka Maric², Andrea Casalegno¹, Matteo Zago^1
1 Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
² Center for Clean Energy Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA
³ Eni DR&D Renewable Energy and Environmental R&D Center, Italy

Effect of operating conditions on performance and lifetime of vanadium-oxygen fuel cell
Page 31
Jiří Charvát^1,2*, Petr Mazúr¹, Martin Paidar³, Jindřich Mrlík¹, Jaromír Pocedič⁴, Jiří Vrána⁴, Juraj Kosek^1,2
1 Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
² New Technologies – Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
³ Dept. of Inorganic Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
⁴ Pinflow energy storage, Czech Republic

Composite anion exchange membrane proposed for RFBs
Page 33
Martyna Charyton^1,2,3, Mathieu Etienne², Gérard Henrion³, Mateusz L. Donten^1
1 Amer-sil, Luxembourg
² Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour les Matériaux et l’Environnement, Université de Lorraine CNRS, France
³ Institute Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine CNRS, France

Recent progress in organic-based aqueous flow batteries: stability and synthetic techniques
Page 35
Eric M. Fell¹, Min Wu¹, Yan Jing², Andrew A. Wong¹, Shijian Jin¹, Zhijiang Tang¹, Daniel A. Pollack³, Emily F. Kerr², Roy G. Gordon^1,2, Michael J. Aziz^1
1 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA
² Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
³ Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA

Development of zinc-air-batteries based on ionic liquids for uninterruptible power supplies (USP)
Page 37
Manuel Forster, Christian Stromberg
Westphalian University of Applied Science, Germany

The demonstration and operation of a vanadium flow battery system for microgrid application
Page 39
Shohei Fukumoto^1*, Masao Moriguchi¹, Takuya Sano¹, Toshikazu Shibata¹, François Henry², Hamid Soleimani Bidgoli^2
1 Energy Systems Division, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
² John Cockerill Energy, Belgium

Recent progress of stack generations for a 40 kW all-vanadium flow battery as part of a multifunctional hybrid compensator
Page 41
Jan Girschik^1*, Rasit Oezguec¹, Peter Schwerdt¹, Michael Joemann¹, Anna Grevé¹, Christian Doetsch^1
1 Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany

Composite membrane for the VRFB: Bilayer of a porous separator and a polybenzimidazole ‘Skin’
Page 44
Lorenz Gubler¹, David Vonlanthen^1,2, Aaron Schneider¹, Fabio J. Oldenburg^1,3
1 Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
² Swiss Battery, Switzerland
³ Gaia Membranes, Switzerland

Improved performance of vanadium flow batteries by bonded graphite felt electrode-bipolar plate assemblies
Page 46
Gaurav Gupta¹, Nambi Krishnan Nagappan¹, Lisa M. Uhlig¹, Leif-Arvid Schillert¹, Wiebke Germer¹, Barbara Satola¹, Marco Zobel¹, Alexandra Ploner², Hermann Block³, Burak Caglar² and Alexander Dyck^1
1 DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Germany
² SGL Carbon GmbH, Germany
³ Polyprocess GmbH, Germany

MELODY project: new electrolyte compositions for membraneless H₂-Br₂ redox flow battery
Page 48
Matthäa Holland-Cunz¹, Wiebrand Kout², Matthew Suss³, Willem Haverkort¹, Peter Connor⁴, David A. Vermaas^1
1 Delft Unversity of Technology, The Netherlands
² Elestor BV, The Netherlands
³ Technion, Israel
⁴ University of Exeter, UK

Recent deployments of vanadium redox flow battery storage systems in South Korea
Page 50
Jeehyang Huh, Shin Han
H2, Inc., South Korea

Sealing technology is everything
Page 52
Detlef Jannes, Lothar Hörl, Frank Bauer 
Institute of Machine Components, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Development of highly water soluble organic active materials for redox flow battery
Page 54
Atsushi Kaiho, Shinya Nagatsuka, Tomoya Nakajima, Takafumi Fujii
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd, Japan

Influence of the alkyl side chain length of pyridinium bromine complexing agents on the cell performance of a H₂/Br₂-flow battery
Page 56
Michael Küttinger, Théo Faverge¹, Nataliya V. Roznyatovskaya¹, Jens Tübke¹
Applied Electrochemistry, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany

A dopamine-based organic catholyte for aqueous redox flow battery
Page 58
Xiangrong Li, Quanbing Liu, Ao Tang and Chuanwei Yan
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

HIGREEW aqueous organic redox flow battery: from materials development to final prototype integration
Page 60
Ana Catarina Lopes^1,2, Eduardo Sánchez-Díez¹, Maddalen Aguirre¹, Oihane Zugazua¹, Iván Salmeron-Sánchez³, Juan Asenjo-Pascual³, Juan Ramon Aviles-Moreno³, Pablo Mauleon⁴, Pilar Ocón³, Vicent Feynerol⁵, Mathieu Etienne⁵, Vanessa Fierro⁶, Raquel Ferret^1
1 CIC Energigune. Parque Tecnológico de Alava, Spain
² IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain 
³ Applied Chemical-Physical Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
⁴ Organic Chemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
⁵ LCPME, UMR7564 CNRS Université de Lorraine, France
⁶ Institut Jean Lamour, UMR 7198 CNRS Université de Lorraine, France

Zinc-air flow battery development with an automated test bench integrated (POWER2FLOW)
Page 62
Elena Marchante, Juan Carratalá, Rubén Beneito
Energy Area, Technological Institute for children’s product and leisure (AIJU), Spain

High voltage iron chrome flow battery enabled by chelation
Page 65
Michael P. Marshak^1,2
1 Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
² Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, USA

Microfluidics applied to redox flow batteries: a membraneless breakthrough technology
Page 67
Beatriz Oraá-Poblete^1,2, Alberto Bernaldo de Quirós², Miguel de las Heras², Beatriz Ruiz², Jesús Palma¹, Alberto E. Quintero^2
1 Electrochemical Processes Unit, IMDEA Energy Institute, Spain
² R&D Department, Micro Electrochemical Technologies S.L., Spain

Composite membranes based on LATP and LAGTP ceramics for lithium hybrid-flow batteries: composition and outer factors’ influence on the performance
Page 70
Nikolay Ovsyannikov¹, Irina Krasnikova¹, Mariam Pogosova¹, Nikita Akhmetov¹, Elena Romadina¹, Nataliya Gvozdik¹, Yasser Ashraf Gandomi², Fikile R. Brushett², Keith J. Stevenson^1
1 Center for Energy Science and Technology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
² Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Non-aqueous polyoxometalate flow batteries: best practice for laboratory-scale testing
Page 72
Catherine Peake, Graham Newton, Darren Walsh
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK

Circular economy applied to flow batteries in current commercial products and future developments
Page 74
Juan M. Pérez
Technical Department, Envirobat España, Spain

Invinity Energy Systems: Meeting increasing demand for heavy utilisation energy storage applications with vanadium flow batteries
Page 76
Ed Porter
Invinity Energy Systems, UK

Shore power infrastructure for decarbonisation of shipping (SPIDS)
Page 78
Christopher Price 
Swanbarton Limited, UK

Optimal felt design in VFB for minimization of pressure drop
Page 82
Thomas J. Rabbow
AvCarb Material Solutions LLC, USA

Surface and activity enhancement of graphite felt electrodes
Page 84
Hannes Radinger, Jessica Pfisterer, Frieder Scheiba, Helmut Ehrenberg
Institute for Applied Materials, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany

Flow battery operating in hybrid energy storage system
Page 87
Krzysztof Rafal¹, Weronika Radziszewska¹, Jeehyang Huh², Pawel Grabowski^3
1 Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery PAS, Poland
² H2, Inc., Republic of Korea
³ STAY-ON Energy Management sp. z o.o., Poland

Performance evaluation of single cell VFB at low temperatures
Page 89
Praphulla Rao, Ravendra Gundlapalli, Sreenivas Jayanti
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Increasing the value of VRFBs behind the meter using dynamic efficiency optimisation
Page 91
Diarmid Roberts, Solomon F Brown
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

Effect of electrolyte flow rate and different anode materials on the discharge performance of flow type zinc-air
Page 93
Ram kishore Sankaralingam, Satyanarayanan Seshadri
Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Overcoming the limitations of membranes: high performant anionic exchange membranes for aqueous organic redox flow batteries
Page 95
Caterina Sansone¹*, Xian Yang^2,3,4*, Tobias Janoschkab², Martin D. Hagerc^3,4, Ulrich S.  Schubert^3,4, Cristina Iojoiu^1
1 University of Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, France
² JenaBatteries GmbH, Germany
³ Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
⁴ Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

CUBER: Copper-based flow batteries for energy storage and renewables integration
Page 98
Laura Sanz¹; Corneliu Barbu²; Lasse Murtomäki³; Wouter Badenhorst³; Catia Arbizzani⁴; Luigi Faggiano⁴; Giampaolo Lacarbonara⁴; Marta Boaventura⁵; Jorge Cruz⁵; Torsten Müller⁶; James Rohan⁷; Carlo Ricci^8
1 Nvision System & Technologies S.L, Spain
² Aarhus University, Denmark
³ Aalto University, Finland
⁴ Univesità di Bologna, Italy
⁵ Visblue, Denmark, Portugal
⁶ Fraunhofer ICT, Germany
⁷ University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Ireland 
⁸ Università di Cagliari, Italy

Cost reduction – how to get the job done?
Page 101
Melanie Schroeder, Andreas Schiegl
J. Schmalz GmbH, Germany

Influence of different flow fields on a 100 cm² high energy density zinc/polyiodide RFB 
Page 103
Lukas Siefert, Julian Kapp, Falko Mahlendorf, Angelika Heinzel
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

The need for technical progress in flow battery development
Page 106
Lakshmi Srinivasan
Flow Battery Program, Lockheed Martin, USA

Dynamic response analysis on a 9-kW vanadium redox flow battery test facility
Page 108
Andrea Trovò^1,2, Nicola Poli^1,2, Vito Di Noto^1,2, Massimo Guarnieri^1,2
1 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua – Padova, Italy
² Interdepartmental Centre Giorgio Levi Cases for Energy Economics and Technology, University of Padua – Padova, Italy

SOC balancing in flow battery energy storage systems
Page 111
Adam Whitehead¹, Jean-Louis Cols¹, Andrew Klassen², Brian Adams², Nathan Barrett^2
1 Invinity Energy Systems, UK
² Invinity Energy Systems, Canada

Exploring the thermodynamics of the bromine electrode in concentrated solutions for improved parametrisation of hydrogen-bromine flow battery models
Page 113
Jakub K. Włodarczyk¹, Michael Küttinger², Andreas K. Friedrich³, Jürgen O. Schumacher^1
1 ZHAW, Institute of Computational Physics, Switzerland
² Fraunhofer ICT, Germany
³ Department Electrochemical Energy Technology, DLR, Germany

IFBF 2019 – List of Conference Papers

Print ISBN: 978-0-9571055-9-1
Digital ISBN: 978-1-9164518-9-6

Development of electrospun sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone)/poly(vinylidene fluoride) composite membrane for hydrogen-bromine flow battery
Page 14
Sanaz Abbasi, Wiebrand Kout, Antoni Forner-Cuenca, Zandrie Borneman, Kitty Nijmeijer
Elestor B.V., The Netherlands
Membrane Materials and Processes, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Low cost zinc – iron rechargeable flow battery with high energy density
Page 16
Alessandra-Accogli, Gabriele-Panzeri, Eugenio-Gibertini, Matteo-Gianellini, Luca-Bertoli, Luca-Magagnin
Surface and Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory (SEELab), Dip. Chimica, Materiali e Ing. Chimica G. Natta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Evaluation of the mass transport phenomena in flow through electrodes with controlled geometries and arrangements
Page 18
Noemí Aguiló-Aguayo, Thomas Drozdzik, Thomas Bechtold
Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Fabrication and characterization of novel anion exchange blend membranes based on tetra aryl phosphonium ionomer for energy conversion and storage applications
Page 20
Muthumeenal Arunachalam, Belabbes Merzougui, Stephen E Creager, Rhett Smith, Rachid Zaffou, Ahmed Sodiq, R. Amin, Fathima Fasmin, P. Ramesh Kumar Petla, Sabah Mariyam
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar
Clemson University, USA
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Recent progress in aqueous organic flow batteries
Page 22
Michael J. Aziz
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA

Characterisation of a 200 kW/400 kWh vanadium redox flow battery
Page 24
D. Bryans, V. Amstutz, H. Girault, L. Berlouis
WestCHEM, Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SB-ISICLEPA, Switzerland

Surface treatment of carbon felt electrodes and the associated impacts
Page 26
D. Bryans, M. Toda, B. McMillan, L. Berlouis
Mersen UK, Graphite Specialities Research & Development, UK
WestCHEM, Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, UK

Coordination chemistry flow battery
Page 28
Doreen Burchell
Lockheed Martin Energy, USA

Optimization of felt compression for high performance VRFB stack
Page 30
Jiří Charvát, Petr Mazúr, Jaromír Pocedič, Jan Dundálek, Jindřich Mrlík, Juraj Kosek
New Technologies – Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic

Development of a flow field for a zinc air redox flow battery
Page 32
Nak Heon Choi, Diego del Olmo, Peter Fischer, Juraj Kosek, Karsten Pinkwart, Jens Tübke
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic

EnergyKeeper smart grid: an organic RFB in a practical application
Page 34
Olaf Conrad, Tobias Janoschka
JenaBatteries GmbH, Germany

Open source battery models for grid applications (open BEA)
Page 36
P. Dotzauer, D. Kucevic, B. Tepe, H. Hesse, J. Ing
Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research e.V., Germany
Institute for Electrical Energy Storage Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Field operating experiences of a vanadium redox flow battery in South Korea
Page 37
Jeehyang Huh, Shin Han
H2, Inc., South Korea

Stepwise potentiometric titration applied to bromine bromide electrolytes
Page 38
Mattia Duranti, Matteo Testi, Edoardo Gino Macchi, Luigi Crema
Center for Materials and Microsystems, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy

Electrochemical studies and performance evaluation of 1- amino anthra quinone based slurry electrodes in flow cell batteries
Page 40
Fathima Fasmin, Farida H Aidoudi, Aziz Kheireddine, Muthumeenal Arunachalam, Ahmed Sodiq,
Rachid Zaffou, Belabbes A Merzougui
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Investigation of electrolyte distribution in flow batteries by means of pH tracing
Page 42
Purna C. Ghimire, Arjun Bhattarai, Rüdiger Schweiss, Günther G. Scherer, Nyunt Wai, Qingyu Yan
Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Vflowtech Pte. Ltd, Singapore
SGL Carbon GmbH, Germany
5607 Hägglingen, Switzerland
School of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Extruded bipolar plates for redox flow batteries
Page 44
Mario Gillmann, Thorsten Derieth, Matthias Schlesies, Thorsten Hickmann
Centroplast Engineering Plastics GmbH, Germany
Eisenhuth GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Variance of electrochemically active surface area (ECSA)-scaling factors of flow battery cells with internal flow fields
Page 46
Jan Girschik, Nils Cryns, Jens Burfeind, Anna Grevé, Christian Doetsch
Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT, Germany

A 40 kW vanadium flow battery as an electrical energy storage system of a multifunctional hybrid
compensator
Page 48
Jan Girschik, Michael Joemann, Peter Schwerdt, Anna Grevé, Christian Doetsch
Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT, Germany

Zoltek carbon felt electrode materials – an overview
Page 50
Barbara Gönczi, Yasuaki Tanimura, Alan Handermann
Zoltek Zrt, Subsidiary of Toray, Hungary
Advanced Materials Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc., Japan
Zoltek Corporation, Subsidiary of Toray, USA

Bonded graphitized felt electrode-bipolar plate assemblies for vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 52
Gaurav Gupta, Leif Schillert, Barbara Satola, Wiebke Germer, Hermann Block, Burak Caglar, Marco Zobel, Alexander Dyck
DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Germany
Polyprocess GmbH, Germany
SGL Carbon GmbH, Germany

Performance enhancing stack geometry concepts
Page 54
Nicholas Gurieff, Chris Menictas, Victoria Timchenko, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Jens Noack
School of Mechanical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
CENELEST, German-Australian Alliance for Electrochemical Technologies for Storage of Renewable Energy, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Fraunhofer-Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany

100 MWh-scale vanadium flow battery projects in China and forthcoming utility-scale deployment
Page 56
Mianyan Huang, Jim Stover, Bo Hu
VRB Energy Inc., China

Failure analysis of the membrane electrode assembly in hydrogen-bromine flow batteries after accelerated cycling
Page 58
Yohanes Hugo, Wiebrand Kout, Zandrie Borneman, Kitty Nijmeijer
Elestor B.V., The Netherlands
Membrane Materials and Processes, Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, The Netherlands

Design of flow fields for a large area cell of a VRFB
Page 60
Sreenivas Jayanti, Ravendra Gundlapalli
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India

State of charge monitoring in vanadium flow battery
Page 62
Hyunjoon Ji, Chujing Liu, Theresa Haisch, Claudia Weidlich
DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Electrochemistry, Germany

Inverter based compensation of decreasing rotating mass in energy distribution systems
Page 64
Jens Kaufmann
TRUMPF Hüttinger, Germany

Activation of graphite felts using short-term ozone/heat treatment for vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 66
Hansung Kim, Donghyun Kil, Hojin Lee
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea

A highly active carbon-based electrode by intercalating potassium for redox flow battery
Page 68
Youngkwon Kim, Je-Nam Lee, and Ji-Sang Yu
Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea

The current status of battery energy storage systems in Korea: policies, markets and standards
Page 70
Yu-Tack Kim, Sang A Lee, Min-Young Cho, Eohyun Yoo, Sooahn Jung, Dongmin Cha, Jaeseung Yoo
Battery R&D Association of Korea, South Korea

Commercial field experience with Avalon’s modular VRFB
Page 74
Andy Klassen
Avalon Battery, Canada

Optimization study of embossed flow field structures on thin and flexible bipolar plates for an all vanadium flow battery
Page 76
Alexander Kubicka, Oliver Zielinski, Thorsten Hickmann, Ulrich Kunz, Michael Lanfranconi, Thorsten Seipp, Thomas Turek
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Eisenhuth GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Improvement of BCA catholyte and cell performance in H₂/Br₂ flow batteries caused by conscious regulation of bromine sequestering reaction
Page 78
Michael Kuettinger, Raphael Riasse, Camilla Carraro, Peter Fischer, Jens Tuebke
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany

Stability of vanadium flow battery SoC monitoring using electrolyte potential and density
Page 80
Peter Kuhn, Simon Ressel, Thorsten Struckmann
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Heinrich Blasius Institute for Physical Technologies, Germany

The effects of ripple current on vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 82
Md Parvez Akter, Yifeng Li, Jie Bao, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

Online state of charge monitoring of vanadium flow battery using electrolyte viscosity
Page 84
Xiangrong Li, Ao Tang, Jianguo Liu and Chuanwei Yan
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Optimization of serpentine flow channels in the VRFB
Page 86
Ian Lin, Masahiro Katou, Takashi Kanno
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan

Power density improvement of a flow battery for grid storage through carbon fibre catalyst modification
Page 88
Qinghua Liu, John P. Lemmon, Mingzhe Jiang, Sai Zhang, Xueqi Xing, Ping Miao
National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy, China

Optimized auxiliary supply increases the efficiency and flexibility without additional costs
Page 90
Thomas Lüth, David Kienbaum, Thomas Leibfried
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Quality control of flow battery stacks with a fully automated test stand
Page 92
Daniel Manschke, Thorsten Seipp, Tobias Kappels
Volterion GmbH, Germany

Copper slurry flow battery for heat-to-power conversion and energy storage
Page 94
Sunny Maye, Hubert Girault and Pekka Peljo
Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, EPFL Valais-Wallis, Switzerland

Electrochemical stability of selected quinone and viologen derivatives for an organic electrolyte based redox flow battery
Page 96
Petr Mazur, Jindrich Mrlik, Jaroslav Kvical, Zuzana Hlouskova, Milan Klikar, Filip Bures, Jiri Akrman, Lubos Kubac
University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
Centre for Organic Chemistry, Czech Republic

Non-degrading energy storage infrastructure – the future of energy
Page 98
Scott McGregor
redT energy, UK

Sustainable energy storage market in Iran; current status and recent opportunities for RFB investment
Page 99
Seyyed Saeid Farhadi, Ali Davoodi, Ahad Zabett
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran

Installation and interfacing of a commercial VRB system with PV
Page 100
Joseph Epoupa Mengou, Chiara Gambaro, Laura Meda
Eni SpA – Renewable Energy and Environmental R&D Center, Italy

A multicomponent diffusion model for organic redox flow battery membranes
Page 102
Gael Mourouga, Caterina Sansone, Fannie Alloin, Cristina Iojoiu, Jurgen O. Schumacher
Institute of Computational Physics (ICP), Zurich
University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Winterthur, Switzerland
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LEPMI, France

Factors leading to improved vanadium flow battery performance with thermally treated carbon paper
electrodes
Page 104
Nataliya A. Gvozdik, Keith J. Stevenson
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia

Flow battery cost reductions enabled by membrane innovations
Page 106
Gregory Newbloom, Phil Pickett and Olivia Lenz
Membrion, Inc., USA

Raw material basis of V-electrolyte: Possibilities and limits of secondary raw materials
Page 108
Jochen Nühlen, Jens Burfeind, Alexander Matthies
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute for Nonferrous Metallurgy and Purest Materials, Germany

Advanced controls for flow batteries to enable remote areas deployments
Page 110
Brent O’Connor
Redflow, Australia

Assessing the membrane lifetime in vanadium redox flow batteries with an accelerated stress test
Page 112
Fabio J. Oldenburg, Ayoub Ourgaa, Thomas J. Schmidt, Lorenz Gubler
Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Materials Science and Nano-Engineering Department, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Estimating the performance and stability of electrolytes for an aqueous organic redox flow battery: a combined experimental – 0D modelling approach
Page 114
David Pasquier, Quentin Cacciuttolo, Martin Petit
IFP Energies Nouvelles, France

Highly conductive graphite based felt electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries
Page 116
Jessica Pfisterer, Elke Herrmann, Frieder Scheiba, Helmut Ehrenberg
Institute for Applied Materials, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Real-time reservoir balancing and leak-free nonaqueous cell design for flow batteries
Page 119
Kirk Smith
University of Oxford, UK

Statistical evaluation of measurement within the research of redox flow batteries at lab-scale
Page 120
Jaromír Pocedič, Jiří Vrána, Jan Dundálek, Petr Mazúr
Pinflow energy storage, Czech Republic
University of West Bohemia, New Technologies – Research Centre, Czech Republic
University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic

Influence of electrolyte flow rate on the performance of a vanadium redox flow battery in discharge operation at dynamic loading conditions
Page 122
M. Pugach, S. Parsegov, A. Bischi
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

Hydrogen formation in flow batteries – a parameter for optimization of system and components?
Page 124
Thomas J. Rabbow, David Chittenden, Reyhan Taspinar, Guenter Fafilek
AvCarb Materials Solution LLC, USA
TU Wien, Austria

Tubular cell designs for all vanadium and vanadium/air flow batteries
Page 126
Simon Ressel, Simon Fischer, Michael Jeske, Thorsten Struckmann
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Heinrich Blasius Institute for Physical Technologies, Germany
Uniwell Rohrsysteme GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Fumatech BWT GmbH, Germany

Purification of copper-contaminated vanadium electrolytes using vanadium redox flow batteries selection
Page 128
Danick Reynard, Heron Vrubel, Christopher Dennison, Alberto Battistel, Hubert Girault
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Microgrid system with all-vanadium redox flow battery and wind turbine generator
Page 130
Michael Schäffer, Peter Fischer, Christoph Winter, Jens Noack, Karsten Pinkwart, Jens Tübke
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany

Material, cell and stack characterization – a journey
Page 132
Melanie Schroeder, Udo Martin
J. Schmalz GmbH, Germany

Strategies to improve capacity and coulombic efficiency of a high energy density zinc/polyiodide RFB
Page 134
Lukas Siefert, Falko Mahlendorf, Angelika Heinzel
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Applications for flow batteries: high power, high cycle VRFB
Page 136
Thorsten Seipp, Sascha Berthold, Tobias Kappels, Kai Bothe, Daniel Manschke, Michael Lanfranconi, Kees van de Kerk
Volterion GmbH, Germany

Performance evaluation of a 60MWh vanadium flow battery system over three years of operation
Page 138
Toshikazu Shibata, Shuji Hayashi, Keiji Yano, Takuya Sano, Kazuhiro Fujikawa, Katsuya Yamanishi, Takatoshi Matsumoto, Kunihiko Tada, Akira Inoue, Eiichi Sasano
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan

Comparing flow batteries with lithium-ion energy storage for the energy arbitrage application in the Mexican electricity market
Page 140
Javier de la Cruz Soto, Joep Pijpers
National Institute for Electricity and Clean Energy (INEEL), Mexico

A calibration-free, temperature-independent, amperometric state-of-charge monitoring method
Page 142
Christian Stolze, Jan Meurer, Martin Hager, Ulrich Schubert
Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

A high energy density solid-flow battery
Page 144
Simon Long Yin Tam, Zengyue Wang, Yi-Chun Lu
Electrochemical Energy and Interfaces Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Simulation analysis of mechanical behaviour and its impact on reliability and electrochemical performance of the vanadium flow battery stack
Page 146
Ao Tang, Jing Xiong, Xiangrong Li, Jianguo Liu, Chuanwei Yan
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Thermal modelling of industrialized VRFBs
Page 148
Andrea Trovò, Monica Giomo, Federico Moro, Piergiorgio Alotto, Massimo Guarnieri
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

The future of the Russian energy storage market – trends and opportunities and a forecast to 2025 – 2030
Page 150
Andrei Usenko, Yuri Dobrovolsky, Alexey Kashin
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Russia
Inenergy LLC, Russia

Hybrid hydrogen-vanadium fuel cell for electrical energy storage
Page 152
Trung Van Nguyen
The University of Kansas, USA

Stabilization of the positive electrolyte for a vanadium flow battery using Fe₂(SO₄)₃ additive at 50 °C
Page 154
Baoguo Wang, Zenghui Li, Yuqun Lin, Lei Wan
Dept of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

A low-cost and scalable zinc iodine-bromide flow battery for bulk energy storage
Page 156
Zengyue Wang, Simon Long Yin Tam, and Yi-Chun Lu
Electrochemical Energy and Interfaces Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Open-circuit potential prediction and its applications in modeling and simulation of hydrogen-bromine redox flow batteries
Page 158
Jakub Wlodarczyk, Michael Küttinger, Peter Fischer, Jürgen O. Schumacher
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Computational Physics (ICP), Switzerland
Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany

Advancement of Nafion^TM membrane for vanadium flow battery applications
Page 160
Ruidong Yang, Jan Lenders, Michael Raiford, Robert Moffett
Nafion™ Ion Exchange Materials, The Chemours Company, USA
Nafion™ Ion Exchange Materials, Chemours Belgium BVBA, Belgium

Field experience and advancement of the new generation VRFB
Page 162
Zhenguo “Gary” Yang, Chauncey Sun, David Ridley, Rick Winter
UniEnergy Technologies, USA

Enhanced aqueous organic redox flow battery by solid boosters
Page 164
Elena Zanzola, S. Gentil, G. Gschwend, D. Reynard, E. Smirnov, C. Dennison, H.H. Girault, P. Peljo
Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Chemistry (LEPA), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland
Research group of Physical Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Physics, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, Finland

Crossover-tolerant hydrogen electrocatalysts in hydrogen/bromine redox flow battery
Page 166
David Zitoun, Kobby Saadi
Department of Chemistry and Bar Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), Bar Ilan University, Israel

The development of low cost, intrinsically safe flow batteries to meet the commercial challenge from competing battery technologies
Page 168
Huamin Zhang
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Rongke Power Co., Ltd, China