| Phase: |
Theme |
| Theme: | Grids and Storage (T06) |
| Status: | Ended |
| Start Date: | 2019-01-01 |
| End Date: | 2022-01-31 |
| Principal Investigator |
| Musilek, Petr |
Project Overview
This project addresses knowledge gaps associated with Vanadium for Redox Flow Cells as electric storage devices in comparison with other electricity storage approaches. In particular, it plans to conduct comprehensive survey of energy storage solutions and compare them to Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) from a variety of perspectives (steady state and transient efficiencies, fixed and variable costs, lifetime, scalability, safety, environmental impact, parasitic losses, etc.). In addition, with our industrial partners, we will conduct a pilot-scale deployment of actual VRFB battery system to evaluate their performance under different deployment scenarios performing economic and environmental assessment of VRFB technology.
This project is co-funded by Alberta Innovates and developed in partnership with Fraunhofer UMSICHT (German research institute that developed a new VRFB stack fabrication process) and their spin-off company Volterion GmbH.
The system will be installed at a test site operated by a local industrial partner.
Outputs
| Title |
Category |
Date |
Authors |
| Fellowship University of Alberta | Award | 2020-01-14 | Musilek, P. |
| Sensors - Editor’s Choice for paper entitled “A High-Resolution Reflective Microwave Planar Sensor for Sensing of Vanadium Electrolyte"Paper entitled “A High-Resolution Reflective Microwave Planar Sensor for Sensing of Vanadium Electrolyte" University of Alberta | Award | 2021-12-15 | Nazli Kazemi, Kalvin Schofield, Musilek, P. |
| Optimal real-time scheduling of battery operation using reinforcement learning University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-09-01 | Carolina Quiroz Juarez, Musilek, P. |
| T-REX: Transactive Renewable Energy eXchangeParticipation in Energy.AI^3 Accelerator - a workshop organized by the Energy Futures Lab University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-01 | Musilek, P., Daniel May, Peter Atrazhev, Steven (Shida) Zhang |
| A High-Resolution Reflective Microwave Planar Sensor for Sensing of Vanadium Electrolyte, Sensors University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-05-13 | Nazli Kazemi, Kalvin Schofield, Musilek, P. |
| Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Temperature Compensation in Microwave Sensors University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-05-13 | Nazli Kazemi, "M. Abdolrazzaghi", Musilek, P. |
| Market progress of the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery technology: overview of the market development University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-07-01 | Carolina Quiroz Juarez, Musilek, P. |
| Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries: A Review of Use Cases for Microgrids and Comparison with Other Technologies University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-03-31 | Carolina Quiroz Juarez, Musilek, P. |
