A three-dimensional model for thermal analysis in a vanadium flow battery

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 1675-1685

  Zheng, Qiong ^a,b,c   Zhang, Huamin ^a   Xing, Feng ^a   Ma, Xiangkun ^d   Li, Xianfeng ^a   Ning, Guiling ^b  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Dalian RONGKEPOWER Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Heat generation; Temperature distribution; Thermal analysis; Three dimensional model; Vanadium flow battery (VFB)

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; HEAT GENERATION; HEAT LOSSES; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS; VANADIUM;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; FLOW BATTERIES; GLOBAL KINETIC MODELING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84885446446     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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