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The main goal of the BLUENERGY project is the construction and development of a low-cost redox flow battery with long service life together with its manufacturing and production process, to store energy from renewable sources towards the goal of sustainable development. This battery has a higher return of investment, among several other advantages compared to its alternatives, since its initial value remains nearly unchanged through time, given the possibility of recycling the
components of the battery. The BLUENERGY project also aims at developing a new concept of electrodes with low electric resistance to increase the current density and, consequently, reduce the cost of this technology. Considering medium to long term, the BLUENERGY project aims at finding solutions for the drawbacks of the redox flow batteries (e.g. low energy density, low current density and poor mechanical and thermal stability) by developing a new energy storage system based on polyoxometalates (POMs), which display potential for the residential market, automobile sector and wind turbine parks. To achieve such goals, reference institutions in Portugal are involved in the BLUENERGY project consortium: Simoldes Plásticos (consortium leader and injection moulding
specialist), University of Porto (SCTN reference institution) and VisBlue Portugal (a startup with headquarters at UPTEC specialized in the development and integration of redox flow battery systems). |