Long-duration energy storage has become critical for renewable energy integration.While redox flow batteries,especially vanadium-based systems,are scaling up in capacity,their performance at the stack level remains in...Long-duration energy storage has become critical for renewable energy integration.While redox flow batteries,especially vanadium-based systems,are scaling up in capacity,their performance at the stack level remains insufficiently optimized,demanding more profound mechanistic studies and engineering refinements.To address the difficulties in resolving the flow inhomogeneity at the stack scale,this study establishes a multi-physics field coupling model and analyzes the pressure distributions,flow rate differences,active substance concentration,and electrochemical characteristics.The results show that the uneven cell pressure distribution is a key factor affecting the consistency of the system performance,and the increase in the flow rate improves the reactant homogeneity,with both the average concentration and the uniformity factor increasing with the flow rate.In contrast,high current densities lead to an increased imbalance between electrochemical depletion and reactant replenishment,resulting in a significant decrease in reactant concentration in the under-ribs region.In addition,a higher flow rate can expand the high-current-density region where the stack operates efficiently.This study provides a theoretical basis for optimizing the design of the stack components.展开更多
The design of most water strider robots follows the principle that all supporting legs are in a plane,and each supporting leg bears a certain load and the water strider robot can float on the water.To meet this princi...The design of most water strider robots follows the principle that all supporting legs are in a plane,and each supporting leg bears a certain load and the water strider robot can float on the water.To meet this principle,the number of supporting legs and the spacing between each supporting legs of the water strider robot must be increased,which makes the shape of water strider robots look like octopus.This study proposed a novel water strider robot named 5S-robot,which used five new umbrella-type footpads and a centrifugal pump-based actuating mechanism.Motion analysis model and force analysis model of 5S-robot were built.The general consistency between the results of motion experiments and those of numerical simulation verified the former models.For this 5S-robot,the maximum load of 110.5 g and forward speed of 207.1 mm s^(-1)and rotational speed of 1.22 rad s^(-1)were measured,respectively.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.524B2078,12426307,51906203)Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(2023B0303000002)+6 种基金Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2023B1515120005)Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen(JCYJ20241202125327036,JCYJ20240813100103005)Shenzhen Engineering Research Center of Redox Flow Battery for Energy Storage(XMHT20230208003)Research Project on Medium-and Long-Duration Flow Battery Energy Storage Technology(2024KJTW0015)China Association for Science and Technology(OR2308010)High level of special funds(G03034K001)supported by the Center for Computational Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
文摘Long-duration energy storage has become critical for renewable energy integration.While redox flow batteries,especially vanadium-based systems,are scaling up in capacity,their performance at the stack level remains insufficiently optimized,demanding more profound mechanistic studies and engineering refinements.To address the difficulties in resolving the flow inhomogeneity at the stack scale,this study establishes a multi-physics field coupling model and analyzes the pressure distributions,flow rate differences,active substance concentration,and electrochemical characteristics.The results show that the uneven cell pressure distribution is a key factor affecting the consistency of the system performance,and the increase in the flow rate improves the reactant homogeneity,with both the average concentration and the uniformity factor increasing with the flow rate.In contrast,high current densities lead to an increased imbalance between electrochemical depletion and reactant replenishment,resulting in a significant decrease in reactant concentration in the under-ribs region.In addition,a higher flow rate can expand the high-current-density region where the stack operates efficiently.This study provides a theoretical basis for optimizing the design of the stack components.
基金financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51975550)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LY21E050007)。
文摘The design of most water strider robots follows the principle that all supporting legs are in a plane,and each supporting leg bears a certain load and the water strider robot can float on the water.To meet this principle,the number of supporting legs and the spacing between each supporting legs of the water strider robot must be increased,which makes the shape of water strider robots look like octopus.This study proposed a novel water strider robot named 5S-robot,which used five new umbrella-type footpads and a centrifugal pump-based actuating mechanism.Motion analysis model and force analysis model of 5S-robot were built.The general consistency between the results of motion experiments and those of numerical simulation verified the former models.For this 5S-robot,the maximum load of 110.5 g and forward speed of 207.1 mm s^(-1)and rotational speed of 1.22 rad s^(-1)were measured,respectively.
