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 II期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是一种新的超低成本碳 - 氧气电池，可提供高能量密度的长期存储，并具有启用100％可再生能源所需的独特基本属性。这种闭环的固定储能系统将以比化石燃料产生低的成本将间歇性太阳能/风能变成按需的电源。此外，它的高能密度（在系统级别低3倍，比锂离子电池轻3倍）将使更长的电动船，卡车等（一个次要目标市场）能够比其他能源容量的其他电池更紧凑，以实现平稳储存的尺寸。该项目将洞悉关键电池组件的扩展潜力和设计参数。实现100％可持续能源将产生广泛的社会影响，包括最大程度地降低环境影响并改善人类健康。因此，针对碳氧气电池的小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目将集中在建模，建筑物和测试中的核心组件的关键技术开发。这将涉及将一系列小规模的原型反应器组装到屏幕配置上并在设计上进行迭代，然后比例最高到较大的兆瓦小时（MWH）比例反应器，以集成到演示系统中。第二阶段项目的对象将着重于优化反应器以实现关键目标指标，包括：1）创建和验证优化反应器的多物理模型，2）设计优化的反应器，操作条件和材料，以及3）建立和测试几个优化反应堆，并显示出最佳的设计，可以实现启动范围。使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。