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NEWS TRACK

FROM WASTE TO WATTAGE:
REVOLUTIONISING ENERGY STORAGE WITH

INDUSTRIAL BY-PRODUCTS

ndustrial waste, called organic industry synthesis process
triphenylphosphine oxide (TPO), like making vitamins among other
used for redox flow batteries (made applications. Using a one-pot reaction,
for large-scale energy storage) is a chemists can turn the industrial waste into
Idevelopment towards sustainable a usable product useful to story energy:
battery technology. In other words, instead Redox flow batteries.
of banking on minerals with harmful Lithium and solid-state batteries store
effects for the environment, like lithium energy in electrodes. This battery energy
or cobalt, extracted through mining, green innovation pumps energy back and forth
energy alternatives are possible. The between electrolytes, using a chemical
market for redox flow batteries is likely reaction. To attain energy density and
to increase by 15 per cent from 2023 to stability, the team identified a strategy to
2030, value being about 700 million euros pack electrons together in the solution,
worldwide. Researchers at Northwestern without any loss of storage capacity over
University are working on these lines, as time. The Northwestern team observed
per a paper published this month in the that the battery lost little capacity over
Journal of the American Chemical Society. time in this experiment using phosphine
TPO is generated in tonnes as a oxides.
chemical by-product each year by the Source: SciTech Daily

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