SBIR Phase II: Rechargeable Carbon-Oxygen Battery for Ultra-Low-Cost Renewable Energy Storage

SBIR第二阶段：用于超低成本可再生能源存储的可充电碳氧电池

• 批准号: 2222588
• 负责人: Christopher Graves
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: NOON ENERGY INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-15 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Rechargeable; Carbon

The broader impact/commercial potential of this SBIR Phase II project is a new ultra low-cost carbon-oxygen battery that provides high energy density long-duration storage with unique fundamental properties needed to enable 100% renewable energy. This closed-loop stationary energy storage system will turn intermittent solar/wind power into on-demand power at lower cost than fossil fuel generation. Additionally, its high energy density (3x lighter and smaller than Lithium-ion batteries at system level) will enable longer range electric ships, trucks, etc. – a secondary target market – and a much more compact size for stationary storage than other batteries at the same energy capacity. The project will provide insight into the scale-up potential and design parameters of key battery components. Achieving 100% sustainable energy will have a wide range of societal impacts including minimizing environmental impact and improving human health.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project for the carbon-oxygen battery will thus focus on key technology development of the core components by modeling, building, and testing. This will involve assembling an array of small-scale prototype reactors to screen configurations and iterate on the design, followed by scale up to a larger megawatt-hour (MWh) scale reactors to integrate into a demo system. The objectives of the Phase II project will focus on optimizing the reactor to achieve the key target metrics, including objectives to: 1) create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, 2) design the optimized reactor, operating conditions, and materials, and 3) build and test several optimized reactors and show that the best design has the potential to fulfill the target metrics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该SBIR二期项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是一种新型超低成本碳氧电池，可提供高能量密度长时间存储，具有实现100%可再生能源所需的独特基本特性。这种闭环固定储能系统将以比化石燃料发电更低的成本将间歇性太阳能/风能转化为按需发电。此外，它的高能量密度（在系统级比锂离子电池轻3倍，小3倍）将使电动船舶，卡车等更长距离-第二目标市场-并且在相同的能量容量下比其他电池更紧凑的尺寸用于固定存储。该项目将深入了解关键电池组件的放大潜力和设计参数。实现100%的可持续能源将产生广泛的社会影响，包括最大限度地减少对环境的影响和改善人类健康。因此，这个碳氧电池的小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二期项目将通过建模，构建和测试来专注于核心部件的关键技术开发。这将涉及组装一系列小规模原型反应堆，以筛选配置并验证设计，然后扩展到更大的兆瓦时（MWh）规模反应堆，以集成到演示系统中。 第二阶段项目的目标将侧重于优化反应堆，以实现关键目标指标，包括以下目标：1）创建并验证优化反应器的多物理模型，2）设计优化反应器、操作条件和材料，和3）建造和测试几个优化的反应堆，并表明最好的设计有潜力实现目标指标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定基金会的使命是履行其使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评价，被认为值得支持。