Battery knowledge · Other and emerging chemistries
Fuel cell
An electrochemical converter that makes electricity from a fuel, usually hydrogen, and oxygen as long as both are supplied, rather than storing energy in its electrodes. Fuel-cell vehicles still carry a battery to buffer power.
Example
Other and emerging chemistries: an example situation
Two chemistries can meet the same energy target with different voltage windows and charge termination.
Read Fuel cell alongside Flow battery in this context. A battery whose energy is stored in liquid electrolytes held in external tanks and pumped through a reaction stack. Energy and power scale independently, which suits long-duration grid storage; vanadium is the most developed chemistry.
Use in Lemonergy
Do not carry lithium-ion assumptions into every chemistry.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Promise and reality of post-lithium-ion batteries with high energy densities
Jang Wook Choi, Doron Aurbach · Nature Reviews Materials · 2016
Topic background · Post-lithium-ion materials and battery concepts, including practical cell-level limitations; historical 2016 perspective.
- DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA
Sandia National Laboratories · 2013
Topic background · Storage technologies and grid services. The publisher notes that its historical cost and deployment figures are outdated.