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The Effect of Porosity on Performance in a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

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In this chapter, the effects of porosity on battery performance in a vanadium redox flow battery which can use to charge quickly and efficiently the battery systems of the aircraft systems are explained in a detail. These effects are explored in terms of concentration, ohmic, and activation polarization, all of which have a substantial impact on battery performance. The studies in the literature have demonstrated that while the increment in porosity increases ohmic polarization, concentration polarization decreases. Furthermore, particular scenarios are developed for the electrode having different pore distributions which is one of the battery components. The linear increasing porosity and stepwise increasing porosity designs decrease the concentration polarization and increase the utilization of vanadium species, discharge capacity, energy efficiency, and output power. The increase in the porosity decreases the activation overpotential due to the enhanced electrochemical surface area. Furthermore, this increase caused more oxygen functional groups to develop as well as a higher rate of hydrogen evolution. In addition, the heat sources released by the electrochemical reactions and the temperature distributions in the battery are analyzed for the different electrode porosity in a vanadium redox flow battery. The results show that increasing the electrode porosity increases ohmic heat. Furthermore, the temperature distribution in a VRFB becomes more uniform at lower porosity or a higher flow rate.

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Abbreviations

AESP:

Average Energy of Sampling Point

BESS:

Battery Energy Storage System

EESS:

Electrical Energy Storage Systems

ESS:

Energy Storage Systems

HESS:

Hybrid Energy Storage System

LESS:

Local Energy Storage System

UAV:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

VRFB :

Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

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The authors would like to thank the Scientific Research Projects Unit of Erciyes University for funding under the contract no: FDK-2019-9340 and FDK-2020-10376.

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    Phil-Jacques Alphonse, Mert Taş & Gülşah Elden

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Alphonse, PJ., Taş, M., Elden, G. (2022). The Effect of Porosity on Performance in a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery. In: Karakoc, T.H., Colpan, C.O., Dalkiran, A. (eds) Progress in Sustainable Aviation . Sustainable Aviation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12296-5_5

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