TY - JOUR
T1 - Prospects of applying ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for renewable energy storage by means of redox flow batteries
AU - Chakrabarti, Mohammed Harun
AU - Mjalli, Farouq Sabri
AU - Alnashef, Inas Muen
AU - Hashim, Mohd Ali
AU - Hussain, Mohd Azlan
AU - Bahadori, Laleh
AU - Low, Chee Tong John
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the University of Malaya , the Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia and the National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia for supporting this collaborative work via research grants UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/18 , UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/25 and 10-ENV1315-02 respectively, which made possible an extended visit of M.H.C. to Imperial College London. M.H.C. also shows gratitude to Professor Nigel P. Brandon for allowing full access to Imperial College.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been applied in various fields such as electrolytes for lithium ion batteries, electrodeposition, electropolishing and even in fuel cells. ILs and molten salts have found some applications in redox flow batteries (RFBs) in the past and recently some metal ion based ILs have been proposed and used by Sandia National Laboratories. In addition, only two papers have very recently reported on the application of DESs for the same. This review gives an overview on DESs and discusses the possibility of employing them in RFBs for renewable energy storage and utility-scale load leveling applications. Commencing with a discussion on energy storage technologies and the RFB, this paper goes on to provide an account on ILs and DESs as well as their applications in electrochemistry and energy conversion. A succinct discussion on the results of Sandia National Laboratories on using ILs as electrolytes for RFBs is provided building onto the feasibility of replacing ILs with DESs in the near future (based upon recent publications on the topic).
AB - Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been applied in various fields such as electrolytes for lithium ion batteries, electrodeposition, electropolishing and even in fuel cells. ILs and molten salts have found some applications in redox flow batteries (RFBs) in the past and recently some metal ion based ILs have been proposed and used by Sandia National Laboratories. In addition, only two papers have very recently reported on the application of DESs for the same. This review gives an overview on DESs and discusses the possibility of employing them in RFBs for renewable energy storage and utility-scale load leveling applications. Commencing with a discussion on energy storage technologies and the RFB, this paper goes on to provide an account on ILs and DESs as well as their applications in electrochemistry and energy conversion. A succinct discussion on the results of Sandia National Laboratories on using ILs as electrolytes for RFBs is provided building onto the feasibility of replacing ILs with DESs in the near future (based upon recent publications on the topic).
KW - Deep eutectic solvents
KW - Ionic liquids
KW - Redox flow battery
KW - Renewable energy storage
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rser.2013.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.rser.2013.10.004
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84887367992
SN - 1364-0321
VL - 30
SP - 254
EP - 270
JO - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
JF - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
ER -
