High-Performance Layered Potassium Vanadium Oxide for K-Ion Batteries Enabled by Reduced Long-Range Structural Order

Author(s):  
Xiaogang Niu ◽  
Jiale Qu ◽  
Youran Hong ◽  
Leqing Deng ◽  
Ruiting Wang ◽  
...  

Potassium ion batteries (KIBs) are attracting an increasing research interest as a potential low-cost energy storage system. Currently, the development of KIBs is mainly hindered by the poor cycle life...

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 3691
Author(s):  
Pi-Yun Chen ◽  
Kuei-Hsiang Chao ◽  
Yu-Sheng Tsai

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuechao Pu ◽  
Baozheng Jiang ◽  
Xianli Wang ◽  
Wenbao Liu ◽  
Liubing Dong ◽  
...  

AbstractRechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have been gaining increasing interest for large-scale energy storage applications due to their high safety, good rate capability, and low cost. However, the further development of ZIBs is impeded by two main challenges: Currently reported cathode materials usually suffer from rapid capacity fading or high toxicity, and meanwhile, unstable zinc stripping/plating on Zn anode seriously shortens the cycling life of ZIBs. In this paper, metal–organic framework (MOF) materials are proposed to simultaneously address these issues and realize high-performance ZIBs with Mn(BTC) MOF cathodes and ZIF-8-coated Zn (ZIF-8@Zn) anodes. Various MOF materials were synthesized, and Mn(BTC) MOF was found to exhibit the best Zn2+-storage ability with a capacity of 112 mAh g−1. Zn2+ storage mechanism of the Mn(BTC) was carefully studied. Besides, ZIF-8@Zn anodes were prepared by coating ZIF-8 MOF material on Zn foils. Unique porous structure of the ZIF-8 coating guided uniform Zn stripping/plating on the surface of Zn anodes. As a result, the ZIF-8@Zn anodes exhibited stable Zn stripping/plating behaviors, with 8 times longer cycle life than bare Zn foils. Based on the above, high-performance aqueous ZIBs were constructed using the Mn(BTC) cathodes and the ZIF-8@Zn anodes, which displayed an excellent long-cycling stability without obvious capacity fading after 900 charge/discharge cycles. This work provides a new opportunity for high-performance energy storage system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
R. Senthilkumar ◽  
G.M. TamilSelvan ◽  
S. Kanithan ◽  
N. Arun Vignesh

Implementing a low cost, power efficient and high performance routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an important requirement for transmitting a packet through network. In this paper we propose, a new cost and energy aware routing protocol (CEAR) that works based on the two metrics such as cost welfare metric and route score metric.A hybrid electrical energy storage (HEES) framework which holds numerous banks of heterogeneous electrical energy storage (EES) components to be specific battery and a ultra-capacitor is used for providing energy to the network exhibit in the WSN for routing. The simulation results shows that our proposed routing protocol routes the packet efficiently by choosing the best path that also reduces the cost and routes the packet with reduced power consumption. The quantitative metrics in terms of packet delivery ratio of 0.93, average end to end delay of 110 secs, packet loss ratio of 0.75, average throughput attained of 250 bits/sec and efficiency of 98-99.9% overpowers the performance of our proposed work.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervette El Batouti ◽  
H. A. Fetouh

New ferroelectric perovskite sample: excellent dielectric, negligible dielectric loss for energy storage systems such as solar cells, solar ponds, and thermal collectors has been prepared at low cost using nanotechnology.


Author(s):  
Xiang Long Huang ◽  
Yunxiao Wang ◽  
Shulei Chou ◽  
Shi Xue Dou ◽  
Zhiming M. Wang

Room-temperature sodium-sulfur (RT Na-S) batteries constitute an extremely competitive electrochemical energy storage system, owing to their abundant natural resources, low cost, and outstanding energy density, which could potentially overcome the...


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sender Rocha dos Santos ◽  
Juliana C. M. S. Aranha ◽  
Fernando Augusto Cerri ◽  
Thiago Chiachio do Nascimento ◽  
Maria de Fátima Negreli Campos Rosolem ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Songgang Qiu ◽  
Ross Galbraith ◽  
Maurice White

Thermal energy storage (TES) system integrated with concentrated solar power provides the benefits of extending power production, eliminating intermittency issues, and reducing system LOCE. Infinia Corporation is under the contract with DOE in developing TES systems. The goal for one of the DOE sponsored TES projects is to design and build a TES system and integrate it with a 3 KWe free-piston Stirling power generator. The Phase Change Material (PCM) employed for the designed TES system is a eutectic blend of NaF and NaCl which has a melt temperature of 680° C and energy storage capacity of 12 KWh. This PCM was selected due to its low cost and desired melting temperature. This melt temperature ensures the Stirling being operated at designed operating hot end temperature. The latent heat of this eutectic PCM offers 5 to 10 times the energy density of a typical molten salt. The technical challenges associated with low cost molten salt TES systems are the low thermal conductivity of the salt and large thermal expansion. To address these challenges, an array of sodium filled Heat Pipes (HP) is embedded in the PCM to enhance the heat transfer from solar receiver to PCM and from PCM to Stirling engine. The oversized dish provides sufficient thermal energy to operate a 3KWe Stirling engine at full power and to charge up the TES. The HP arrays are optimally distributed so that the solar energy is transferred directly from receiver to Stirling engine heat receiver. During the charge phase, the Stirling engine absorbs and converts the transferred solar energy to electricity and the excess thermal energy is re-directed and stored to PCM. The stored energy is transferred via distributed HP from PCM to Stirling engine heat receiver during discharge phase. The HP based PCM thermal energy storage system was designed, built, and performance tested in laboratory. The TES/engine assembly was tested in two different orientations representing the extremes of system operation when mounted on sun-tracking dish, horizontal and vertical. Horizontal represents the zero elevation at sun rise and the vertical represents the extreme of solar noon. The testing allows the examination of orientation effect on the heat pipe performance and the maximum charge and discharge rates. The total energy stored and extracted was also examined. The areas for further system refinements were identified and discussed.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragaiy Zidan ◽  
B. J. Hardy ◽  
C. Corgnale ◽  
J. A. Teprovich ◽  
P. Ward ◽  
...  

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