Electrode assembly for a redox flow battery

    公开(公告)号:US11677093B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-13

    申请号:US17308913

    申请日:2021-05-05

    Applicant: ESS Tech, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01M8/248 H01M8/0247 H01M8/188

    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a redox flow battery system. In one example, the redox flow battery system includes a cell stack compressed between terminal structures defining ends of the redox flow battery. The cell stack may be formed of a plurality of cells where each cell includes a deformable positive electrode in contact with a first face of a membrane separator and a negative electrode configured to be less compressible than the positive electrode and arranged at a second face of the membrane separator.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLOWING, STORING, AND REBALANCING ELECTROLYTE IN REDOX FLOW BATTERY SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230062739A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-02

    申请号:US17816316

    申请日:2022-07-29

    Applicant: ESS TECH, INC.

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for electrolyte distribution, rebalancing, and storage in a redox flow battery system. In one example, the redox flow battery system may include a plurality of redox flow battery cells and a plurality of storage tanks respectively fluidically coupled thereto, wherein a gauge pressure in each of the plurality of storage tanks may be maintained below a relatively low pressure (for example, below 2 psi). In some examples, the redox flow battery system may further include a plurality of rebalancing cells respectively fluidically coupled to the plurality of storage tanks, each of the plurality of rebalancing cells including a stack of internally shorted electrode assemblies. In this way, the redox flow battery system may be operated at less than the relatively low pressure, such that multiple space effective (for example, prismatic and relatively small) storage tanks may be included.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRETREATING BIPOLAR PLATE AND USE THEREOF IN REDOX FLOW BATTERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220278340A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17650513

    申请日:2022-02-09

    Applicant: ESS Tech, Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for electrochemical and/or chemical pretreatment of bipolar plates, for example, for plating electrodes in redox flow batteries. In one example, a method may include pretreating a bipolar plate for the redox flow battery by disrupting a surface of the bipolar plate. In some examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include positioning the bipolar plate within the redox flow battery, and thereafter charging the redox flow battery at multiple discrete plating current densities for each of one or more initial charging cycles to electrochemically etch the surface. In additional or alternative examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include soaking the bipolar plate in solution to chemically treat the surface. In this way, the bipolar plate may be pretreated via electrochemical etching and/or chemical treatment so as to reduce electrochemical performance losses and dendrite formation in the redox flow battery.

    INTERNALLY MANIFOLDED FLOW CELL FOR AN ALL-IRON HYBRID FLOW BATTERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220037751A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17450970

    申请日:2021-10-14

    Applicant: ESS Tech, Inc.

    Abstract: In one example, a system for a flow cell for a flow battery, comprising: a first flow field; and a polymeric frame, comprising: a top face; a bottom face, opposite the top face; a first side; a second side, opposite the first side; a first electrolyte inlet located on the top face and the first side of the polymeric frame; a first electrolyte outlet located on the top face and the second side of the polymeric frame; a first electrolyte inlet flow path located within the polymeric frame and coupled to the first electrolyte inlet; and a first electrolyte outlet flow path located within the polymeric frame and coupled to the first electrolyte outlet. In this way, shunt currents may be minimized by increasing the length and/or reducing the cross-sectional area of the electrolyte inlet and electrolyte outlet flow paths.

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