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Life cycle assessment of a vanadium flow battery

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dc.contributor.authorGouveia, J.
dc.contributor.authorMendes, A.
dc.contributor.authorMonteiro, R.
dc.contributor.authorMata, T.M.
dc.contributor.authorCaetano, Nídia
dc.contributor.authorMartins, A.A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-30T16:07:58Z
dc.date.available2021-04-30T16:07:58Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionThe 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, July 22–25, 2019, University of Aveiro, Portugalpt_PT
dc.description.abstractBattery storage technologies have been showing great potential to address the vulnerability of renewable electricity generation systems. Among the various options, vanadium redox flow batteries are one of the most promising in the energy storage market. In this work, a life cycle assessment of a 5 kW vanadium redox flow battery is performed on a cradle-to-gate approach with focus on the vanadium electrolytes, since they determine the battery’s storage capacity and can be readjusted and reused indefinitely. The functional unit is 1 kWh stored by the battery. The initial results show that the environmental hotspots reside mainly in the structural and material components of the battery, evidencing the need for alternative or recycled materials, preferably produced locally. Since the quantity of electrolytes determine the amount of storable electricity, an analysis was conducted on the variation of the impacts with the increase of storage capacity. An alternative scenario with reused electrolytes was also performed. Results show that with the increase of storage capacity, the contribution of the electrolytes to the impacts decrease significantly by stored kWh. In the reused electrolytes scenario, impacts were reduced mainly for the Acidification and Mineral, fossil and renewable resource depletion categories.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was financial supported by projects “SunStorage – Harvesting and storage of solar energy”, with reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016387, funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through COMPETE 2020 – Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (OPCI), and to FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal I.P., project IF/01093/2014/CP1249/CT0003, research grants IF/01093/2014 and SFRH/BPD/112003/2015. Support from POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006939 (Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy — LEPABE, UID/EQU/00511/2019) funded by FEDER, Spain through COMPETE2020-POCI and by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC), Portugal.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.egyr.2019.08.025pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17883
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherElsevierpt_PT
dc.relationPOCI-01-0145-FEDER-016387pt_PT
dc.relationIF/01093/2014pt_PT
dc.relationRenewable Energy Storage Systems Based on Chemical Compounds: Sustainability Evaluation and Integration with Other Systems
dc.relationLaboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484719305967?via%3Dihubpt_PT
dc.subjectEnergy storage systemspt_PT
dc.subjectLife cycle assessmentpt_PT
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactspt_PT
dc.subjectVanadium electrolytespt_PT
dc.subjectVanadium redox flow batterypt_PT
dc.titleLife cycle assessment of a vanadium flow batterypt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitleRenewable Energy Storage Systems Based on Chemical Compounds: Sustainability Evaluation and Integration with Other Systems
oaire.awardTitleLaboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy
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oaire.citation.endPage101pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage95pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEnergy Reportspt_PT
oaire.citation.volume6pt_PT
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