Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Redox flow battery system, pump control unit, and method for operating redox flow battery
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Application No.: US15302422Application Date: 2016-01-27
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Publication No.: US10665881B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Takahiro Kumamoto , Kazuhiro Fujikawa , Katsuya Yamanishi
- Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Baker Botts, L.L.P.
- Agent Michael A. Sartori
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@5dcdda4d
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/052231 WO 20160127
- International Announcement: WO2016/129386 WO 20160818
- Main IPC: H01M8/18
- IPC: H01M8/18 ; H01M8/20 ; H01M8/0444 ; H01M8/04746 ; H01M8/04186

Abstract:
A redox flow battery system includes pumps, a pump control unit, an SQC measuring unit, and a terminal-voltage measuring unit. The pump control unit includes a reference-flow-rate acquiring unit which acquires a reference flow rate of the pumps corresponding to the state of charge of electrolytes; a terminal-voltage determination unit which determines whether or not a terminal voltage of a battery cell reaches the lower limit or the ripper limit of a predetermined voltage range; and a pump-flow-rate setting unit which sets the reference flow rate for the pumps in the case where the terminal voltage does not reach the upper or lower limit of the predetermined voltage range, and sets a flow rate obtained by adding a predetermined flow rate to the reference flow rate for the pumps in the ease where the terminal voltage reaches the upper or lower limit of the predetermined voltage range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170033391A1 REDOX FLOW BATTERY SYSTEM, PUMP CONTROL UNIT, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING REDOX FLOW BATTERY Public/Granted day:2017-02-02
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