WORKSHOP 2017

UK Redox Flow Battery Network (UK RFBN) – Launch Event

Launch meeting and workshop for the UK RFBN held on the 26^th of June 2017, in Manchester , UK.

The intention of the meeting and workshop is to invite academic research groups, industry (not necessarily working on RFBs) and potential technology users to a forum, to outline and discuss the key challenges and opportunities offered by the fast emerging field of flow battery technology. It is key that industry and business partners are identified early on, and synergies between academia and industry are identified, to enable progression in this aspect of electrochemical energy storage.

The network aims to engage with all researchers interested in electrochemical energy storage across the United Kingdom so please do join us and help us shape our future research and networking activities.

The event is funded by the EPSRC Centre of Applied Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) and is FREE to attend.

In addition to academic group leads and company representatives, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are strongly encouraged to attend.

Registration is closed

The launch will coincide with the International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) annual conference taking place in Manchester the 27-29th June.

Plenary Speakers

A plenary talk is to be delivered by Prof Fikile Brushett (MIT) providing us with an overview of academic and commercial challenges and will outline the past, present and future of flow battery research.

Prof Fikile Brushett (MIT, USA) https://www.brushettresearchgroup.org/

Fikile is a Professor of Chemistry at MIT in the US. His group have ranging interest, including high energy low cost redox flow batteries. The Brushet Group have delivered many of the leading articles in this field in recent years.

Mathilde Cazot (Kemwatt, France) http://www.kemwatt.com/

Kemwatt are a new all organic flow battery company emerging in to the flow battery market. In just 4 years they have gone from bench to prototype, and are now launching their first series of commercially available flow batteries.

Some photos from the day

Working on the three big topics of the day:

Where is the present and future market for flow batteries? Where do they fit in? How do they compete with other battery technologies?
What to do to escalate flow battery research to compete with the rest of the world? What are the research gaps?
How should we form a call for seed funding? Priorities, structure and time-frame of funding flow battery research.