Preparation method of electrolyte used for all vanadium redox flow batteries

• Main Authors: WAN HONGQIAO, LIU YANGANG, XUE TAIBAI, TANG JIANNI, LIU JINSHAN, TANG JIAN, HAN LINA
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 21.10.2009
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRICITY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGYGENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

The invention discloses a preparation method of electrolyte used for all vanadium redox flow batteries, which is characterized in that one or more reducing agents are added to vanadium pentoxide and sulfuric acid, and the mixture fully reacts at the temperature of 50-100 DEG C for 0.5-10h to prepare the electrolyte with vanadium ion concentration between 1mol/L and 6mol/L. In the method, isobutyl alcohol, butyraldehyde, dicarboxyl, 1, 3-propanediol, 2-butylene or the mixture thereof is used as a reducing agent; the preparation process is simple, the operation is easy and the cost is low, in particular, the high-purity vanadium battery electrolyte with vanadium ion concentration between 1mol/L and 6mol/L is prepared; besides, the above process only produces carbon dioxide and water but no other wastes, thus being environment-friendly; the reducing agents used in the prior art are generally inorganic matters such as sulphur powder, thus easily producing huge amounts of pollutants, but in the method, organic mat