Low-cost large-scale electrochemical energy storage technology is of great significance for the efficient use of clean and renewable energy such as solar and wind energy. In this work, a 3D lead electrode is designed as a high-performance negative electrode, and an iron-lead (Fe-Pb) semi-flow battery is constructed on this basis. The positive and negative active materials of the battery are ferrous sulfate/iron sulfate and lead/lead sulfate respectively, and sulfuric acid aqueous solution is used as the supporting electrolyte. The negative electrode uses acetylene carbon black (ACET) as an effective additive to form a highly conductive network with a porous structure, and the performance of the battery can be significantly improved by adding ACET in the native electrode. Moreover, benefiting from the novel design of the battery, problems of metal dendrites, hydrogen evolution and irreversible sulfation of the Pb electrode can be avoided. The results show that the introduction of ACET in the negative electrode as a conductive agent can effectively improve the energy efficiency, the utilization rate of the active material of the negative electrode and the rate performance of the battery. The effect of the ACET content on the performance including the current efficiency, voltage efficiency and energy efficiency of the battery has been studied. It is illustrated that an ACET mass content of 12.5% over the active materials in the negative electrode is preferred. At a current density of 20 mA/cm 2 , the specific capacity of the negative electrode can reach 89.3 mAh/g, the battery current efficiency and energy efficiency can reach 99.3% and 88.6%, respectively. Cycling stability of the Fe-Pb semi-flow battery is also investigated in this work. The result shows that the designed battery has excellent cycling stability during the stability test. In addition, the estimated cost of the active material for this battery can be as low as 53.27 $/kWh, which is lower than most of the other energy storage battery systems. Therefore, as a low-cost large-scale electrochemical energy storage battery technology, the iron-lead semi-flow battery has a good research prospect.
Low-cost and high-performance ion-conducting membranes are of urgent need for the large-scale launch of vanadium redox flow batteries. In this work, sulfonated poly(ether sulfone) (SPES) with extremely low sulfonation degree of 5% is utilized to prepare ion-selective membranes, which possess significantly enhanced chemical stability as compared with the high sulfonation degree SPES. High ion-selectivity of the membrane is achieved via a novel solvent-controlled swelling method invented by the group, with which the proton conductivity and vanadium permeability of the membrane can be precisely adjusted at molecular level. The influence of sulfonation degree on the chemical stability of SPES is revealed. The characteristics of the membrane, including water uptake, proton conductivity, VO 2+ permeability, and tensile strength are comprehensively studied. At 100 mA cm -2 , the energy efficiency of the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) cell equipped with the low sulfonation degree SPES membrane reaches 81.1% and shows excellent cycling stability over 150 charge-discharge cycles.
In this paper, an alternating direction nonmonotone approximate Newton algorithm (ADNAN) based on nonmonotone line search is developed for solving inverse problems. It is shown that ADNAN converges to a solution of the inverse problems and numerical results provide the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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