{"id":133072,"date":"2021-12-26T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/carbon-air-battery-as-a-next-generation-energy-storage-system"},"modified":"2021-12-26T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T09:02:08","slug":"carbon-air-battery-as-a-next-generation-energy-storage-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/carbon-air-battery-as-a-next-generation-energy-storage-system","title":{"rendered":"Carbon-air battery as a next-generation energy storage system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-air-battery-as-a-next-generation-energy-storage-system3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the barriers to generating electricity from wind and solar energy is their intermittent nature. A promising alternative to accommodate the fluctuations in power output during unfavorable environmental conditions are hydrogen storage systems, which use hydrogen produced from water splitting to generate clean electricity. However, these systems suffer from poor efficiency and often need to be large in size to compensate for it. This, in turn, makes for complex thermal management and a lowered energy and power density.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <i>Journal of Power Sources<\/i>, researchers from Tokyo Tech have now proposed an alternative electric energy storage system that utilizes carbon \u00a9 as an energy source instead of hydrogen. The new system, called a \u201ccarbon\/air secondary battery (CASB),\u201d consists of a solid-oxide fuel and electrolysis cell (SOFC\/ECs) where carbon generated via electrolysis of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>), is oxidized with air to produce energy. The SOFC\/ECs can be supplied with compressed liquefied CO<sub>2<\/sub> to make up the energy storage system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilar to a battery, the CASB is charged using the energy generated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/renewable+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable sources<\/a> to reduce CO<sub>2<\/sub> to C. During the subsequent discharge phase, the C is oxidized to generate energy,\u201d explains Prof. Manabu Ihara from Tokyo Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the barriers to generating electricity from wind and solar energy is their intermittent nature. A promising alternative to accommodate the fluctuations in power output during unfavorable environmental conditions are hydrogen storage systems, which use hydrogen produced from water splitting to generate clean electricity. However, these systems suffer from poor efficiency and often need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}