ChemE coordinates EU-project on new flow battery technology

A consortium of 4 universities and 4 companies, led by TU Delft, has been granted a 4 million euro Horizon2020 project to study and develop hydrogen bromine redox flow batteries. The wide abundance of water and bromine allow to leverage this battery technology in balancing intermittent renewable energy sources at grid scale. This project, named the MELODY project, employs a novel cost reduction strategy, using a membrane-less flow battery concept and a simplified system design.

The work is being performed in the research group of David Vermaas, with project coordination from the ChemE project office (Angela de Ceuninck van Capelle), and partners at Shell, Elestor, ETH Zurich, Technion, University of Exeter, Vertech and PV3 Technologies. More information on the project background can be found here.