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In the past few decades, there has been a rapid increase in global warming effects because of burning of fossil fuels in the industrial sector. Fossil fuels are limited on earth, so there is a need to decrease the generation of greenhouse gases and increase access to alternative sources or power generation to protect our environment. Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is one of the most promising battery technologies in the current time to store energy at MW level. VRFB technology has been successfully integrated with solar and wind energy in recent years for peak shaving, load leveling, and backup system up to MW power rating. The life cycle of this system goes up to more than 200,000 cycles. It has several advantages as compared to other battery technologies such as lower cost, more safety, fully dischargeable, energy stored in electrolyte tank, more than 15-year life cycle, and scalable energy capacity. This book chapter aims to critically discuss the vanadium redox flow battery emerging technology up to MW level and compare it other battery technologies. It also provided valuable information for recent VRFB installation up to MW power rating and recent experimental and modeling studies by the researcher.
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Kumar, S., Nag, N., Kumari, S., Sarkar, I.J.R., Singh, A. (2023). Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage. In: Pal, D.B. (eds) Recent Technologies for Waste to Clean Energy and its Utilization. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3784-2_5
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