16 and 17 May 2023 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
HIGREEW Final workshop: Flow batteries, bringing the technology to the market
The second and final HIGREEW Workshop took place 16 and 17 May 2023. The event was organized at the project coordinator’s premises, CIC energiGUNE in the beautiful medieval city Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). More than 70 participants representing 10 different EU countries, met for two days in order to discuss the future of Redox Flow Batteries. The workshop successfully addressed all critical steps of the RFB value chain: high-level scientific presentations on materials and components; different solutions for possible applications and the related challenges; market perspective and legislation-related aspects.
Participants also got the opportunity to visit CIC energiGUNE labs and open-platform and…not less important to enjoy – during the networking social activity – the beautiful city and the culinary culture of the Basque Countries
This discussion has been the continuation of what started in Pilsen in March 2022 at the time of the first project workshop and the perfect conclusion of our interesting project. At the same time, it has been an opportunity to start new active talks on new ideas, planning/reinforce future collaborations and start creating the basis for new projects.
We want to thank everyone who contributed and/or participated in this second HIGREEW Workshop!
Group picture at the workshop at CIC energiGUNE
To view the full programme and presentations of all the invited speakers, see below:
Day 1 (16 May)
Session Market and Policy
- Energy storage and advanced grid functionalities: the missing piece of the 100% renewable puzzle by Juan Barandiaran (Managing director, Gamesa Electric)
- RFB Market by Juan-Carlos Mejia (Director Sales Microgrid Solutions, Enerox GmbH / CellCube)
- Redox flow battery R&D in Shell by Peter Klusener (Senior process development chemist, Shell Global Solutions International B.V. Domain lead redox flow battery technology) – presentation not public
- Battery Sustainability Regulation in context of redox-flow technology by Marek Bielewski (Scientific officer at Joint Research Centre of EC)
Session Materials
- HIGREEW Project: a journey through new generation AORFB by Eduardo Sánchez (HIGREEW project coordinator and redox flow research line manager, CIC energiGUNE)
- Characterization of AORFB by Jiří Charvát (Researcher, Laboratory of Energy Storage, NTC UWB and UCT Prague)
- Modified anion exchange membranes and other perspectives by Iván Salmerón Sánchez (PhD student, electrochemistry research group at Applied chemistry-physics faculty, University Autonomous of Madrid)
- The importance of the electrolyte-membrane combination for long lifetime Viologen-TEMPO AORFB by Laura Pastor (PhD student, redox flow research line, CIC energiGUNE)
- Membranes for AORFB by Qilei Song (Senior Lecturer, Imperial College, Project coordinator of ERC Starting Grant NanoMMES) – presentation not public
Session Cell/stack design and modelling
- Engineering Porous Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries by Antoni Forner-Cuenca (Assistant Professor, Membrane Materials and Processes Group, department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology)
- How active can be the graphite felt electrode in redox flow battery electrolyte? by Mathieu Etienne (Research director, CNRS)
- Development of a multiphysics model for an aqueous organic redox flow battery by Aitor Beloki (PhD student, redox flow research line, CIC energiGUNE)
- Results of the European project SONAR with Deeper Insight into Microstructure Simulations of Flow Batteries by Amadeus Wolf (Research associate, Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mechanics. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Printed seals in redox flow batteries by John Collins (Principle engineer, C-Tech Innovation Ltd)
Selected photos of presentations during the workshop
Selected photos of presentations during the workshop – presentation speaker
Day 2 (17 May)
Session Prototypes and deployment
- Electrolyte regeneration of vanadium flow batteries by Nicola Poli (PhD student, Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Laboratory (EESCoLab), University Padova)
- Design and manufacture of a 50 kW vanadium redox flow battery by Ricardo Santamaría (Composite Materials Group, Department of Materials Science at Spanish National Research Council)
- Scale-Up of AORFB by Jaromír Pocedič (Co-Founder, PFES)
- Modular balance of plant for mass-customized flow battery production by Michael Schäffer (Redox Flow Battery, Applied Electrochemistry, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT)
- The installation of a commercial-scale flow battery in the Son Orlandis photovoltaic plant by Pablo Fontela Martínez (Project manager R&D Unit- Endesa)
- The importance of flow batteries for hybrid generation systems by Alberto Alonso Cantalapiedra (Head of section renewables & storage power plants integration testing, SGRE)
Session Non-conventional RFB and hybridization
- Hydrogen bromine, case studies to upscale the technology. MELODY project by Kamuran Yasadi (Senior electrochemist, Elestor and scientific project manager, MELODY project) – presentation not public
- Recent Advances and Future Challenges of Membrane Free Redox Flow Batteries by Rebeca Marcilla (Senior researcher, IMDEA Energy Institute) – presentation not public
- Hybrid redox flow batteries: technology upscaling, opportunities and challenges by Eneko Azaceta (Senior scientist & team leader, Green Energy Storage)
- Hybridization of RFB by Karl-Heinz Pettinger (Scientific director, Hochschule Landshut, University of Applied Sciences, HyFlow project coodinator)
- Redox-mediated flow batteries: first steps from fundaments to application by Edgar Ventosa (Ramon y Cajal professor at the University of Burgos)
Selected photos of presentations during the workshop
Selected photos of presentations during the workshop
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 875613.