Empowering the smart grid : can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage? Halls, Jonathan E., Hawthornthwaite, Amanda, Hepworth, Russell J., Roberts, Noel A., Wright, Kevin J., Zhou, Yan, Haswell, Stephen J., Haywood, Stephanie K., Kelly, Stephen M., Lawrence, Nathan S. and Wadhawan, Jay D. 2013, Empowering the smart grid : can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage?, Energy and environmental science, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1026-1041, doi: 10.1039/c3ee23708g. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads haswell-empoweringthe-2013.pdf Published version application/pdf 1.37MB 506 Title Empowering the smart grid : can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage? Author(s) Halls, Jonathan E. Hawthornthwaite, Amanda Hepworth, Russell J. Roberts, Noel A. Wright, Kevin J. Zhou, Yan Haswell, Stephen J. Haywood, Stephanie K. Kelly, Stephen M. Lawrence, Nathan S. Wadhawan, Jay D. Journal name Energy and environmental science Volume number 6 Issue number 3 Start page 1026 End page 1041 Total pages 16 Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2013 ISSN 1754-5692 1754-5706 Summary The charging of an undivided cerium–zinc redox battery by various current waveforms some of which mimic the output of renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal, biofuel burning) to electricity transducers is considered in this work, where the battery operates through diffusion-only conditions, and is discharged galvanostatically. Under reasonable assumption, the mathematical model developed enables the observation that the performance characteristic of the cells charged with a constant power input differentiates between the various current–charge waveforms, with cell geometry and electrode kinetics playing subtle, but significant, roles; in particular, high efficiency is observed for sunlight-charged batteries which are thin and suffer no corrosion of the sacrificial electrode, and which have already experienced a charge–discharge cycle. The performance characteristics of the systems are interpreted in the light of consequences for smart grid realisation, and indicate that, for a constant power input, the most matched renewable is biofuel burning with a current output that linearly increases with time. Language eng DOI 10.1039/c3ee23708g Field of Research 090703 Environmental Technologies Socio Economic Objective 850599 Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Royal Society of Chemistry Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30063527 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 23 May 2014, 09:38:14 EST Fri, 23 May 2014, 11:10:07 EST Mon, 09 Jun 2014, 13:29:58 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 20:21:33 EST Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 06:59:06 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:06:40 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:08:30 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 31 times in TR Web of Science Cited 32 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 465 Abstract Views, 506 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 23 May 2014, 09:38:14 EST