Liquid Metal Battaries - Abdallah Mteir
Description:
R&D of the Storage system as a special case the Liquid Metal Batteries (Ambre Battery), one of the major the missing factors which stops the world from being transformed totally to renewable resources of energy is the lack of efficient energy storage system, right now a new company called the Ambre are researching the Liquid metal battery which seems quite promising, that we soon will have a new reliable source that can store a lot of energy in order to support the full transform to the Renewable Energy Resources, nowadays most of the energy produced is consumed so not much energy are left for storage about 17 GW only being stored, the future should have more energy storage for long term goals like the Liquid Metal Batteries which already being tested right now.
Enablers:
The liquid metal battery is comprised of a liquid calcium alloy which has many features:
- It uses a low-cost material
- The electrolyte is thermodynamically stable with the electrodes
- The negative electrode is fully consumed when discharged, and then is reformed on every cycle, resulting in a highly repeatable process with no memory effect
- Capacity fade with time isn't a problem in Metal Liquid batteries anymore.
- It can work with a high performance even if the external Temperature reached 500 C
- higher energy Density with the same size
- Ambri’s commercial systems will be packaged in 500 – 1500 VDC containers with up to 1 MWh of capacity
- Require Zero Maintenance
- Ambri cells is far simpler and requires 1/3 of the capital expense per MWh of production than lithium-ion
- Safer, longer life batteries for long-duration applications have emerged, no Risk for Exposition.
Inhibitors:
It is still a very new technology, and not many companies except for Ambri are based on that technology. the future looks so bright with the liquid metal batteries compared to the Lithium-ion ones but we still need some years of testing for this new technology to see if it holds what they have promised and what negative sides which we could see in the future.
we need a massive investment in these new technologies once it has proven their efficiency to expand the whole energy storage system worldwide.
Paradigms:
nowadays, a lot of storage systems are not reliable and cant be trusted for example (lithium-ion) to store the energy for a long time without explosions or risk, so we will have a new way of storing energy which will be having big capacity with a smaller size and much longer lifetime and zero risk and 33% of the li-ion cost.
Experts:
Ambri company
Liquid Metals: Concepts and Theory , ISBN 13:9780521302791
Timing:
2016: First research on liquid metal battery
2021: Ambri Battery being commercialized.
2025: energy storage systems will be changed once and the new liquid metal and hydrogen storage system will be the new standard.
Web Resources:
https://ambri.com/technology/#energy-storage-system