Batteries – welcome to the post-lithium age!
In recent years, the range of lithium batteries has expanded rapidly. However, facing its inherent risks (fire, explosion, etc.), more and more players are offering different solutions. For example, Lille startup Hive Electric is developing metal-ion batteries that run on recyclable and recyclable materials such as graphite or aluminum. This additional storage solution for mobile has already attracted interest from South Korea, Japan and the United States. For its part, Tiamat, a spin-off from CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), will commercialize sodium-ion batteries for high-capacity power applications in 2023. Others such as Kemiwatt are developing flow batteries based on solutions of organic molecules in water; these batteries, also known as "redox", allow for long-term stationary storage. These new solutions use neither precious metals nor rare earths, and some were developed using only resources and materials found in Europe.
Less often emphasized, but equally important on the road to decarbonization, heat storage technologies are also diverse. Thermal energy can be stored in the form of latent heat (using ice or phase change materials), sensible heat (using hot water or molten salts), or chemical form (through reversible chemical reactions or hydrogen production). Another solution is Electromagnetic Storage (SMES - Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage), which is based on generating an electric field in a reel and allowing rapid recovery of the energy produced.
Thermal energy storage technology has begun to be applied to household energy storage worldwide. At present, BQC provides services for thermal energy storage customers, assisting customers to solve material delivery difficulties with high-quality alternative solutions, so as to obtain a good shipment situation and enter the market.
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