LR43 battery.Laying out flow battery technology, BASF actively explores the energy storage market

　　According to foreign media reports, German multinational chemical group BASF recently announced that it plans to cooperate with German start-up Jena Batteries to develop a new "metal-free" electrolyte for flow batteries, making its flow batteries more widely used in the energy storage industry.

　　According to foreign media reports, German multinational chemical group BASF recently announced that it plans to cooperate with German start-up Jena Batteries to develop a new "metal-free" electrolyte for flow batteries, making its flow batteries more widely used in the energy storage industry. .

　　JenaBatteries claims on its website that it has developed a scalable redox flow battery that uses different organic energy storage materials to form the battery anode and cathode. Its rated power can be expanded from 100kW to 2MW, and its rated capacity ranges from 400kWh expanded to 10MWh.

　　Through the partnership, BASF will produce an amine compound for Jena Batteries, which is mainly used to build electrolytes for flow batteries.

　　Containerized oxidation flow battery deployed by JenaBatteries

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　　The potential benefits and challenges of redox flow batteries have long been discussed, and many manufacturers have been working to commercialize them using various technologies and electrolyte solutions.

　　Dr. Oliver Cullmann, Vice President of BASF's European Specialty Amines business unit, said, "Jena Batteries is a battery start-up whose products and solutions support the use of renewable energy and are therefore fully in line with our sustainability strategy. About BASF This collaboration provides us with a new, attractive and future-oriented application area for our amine chemistry."

　　Jena Batteries, headquartered in Jena, Thuringia, Germany, is not the only battery manufacturer in this region. For example, Chinese battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL) said last year that it would build a European battery production facility for electric vehicles in Germany. production plant.

　　BASF wants to become a player in energy storage market

　　For BASF, this is one of a series of projects in which the company is involved in the stationary energy storage industry. A BASF spokesman said the company was accustomed to working "at different levels of the value chain."

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　　BASF therefore supplies cathode materials for lithium-ion battery manufacturing and becomes a raw material supplier in the field of redox flow batteries, as well as a supplier of sodium-sulfur (NaS) batteries. In addition, BASF is now a sales partner of Japan's NGK Insulators, which is currently the world's sole manufacturer of sodium-sulfur (NaS) batteries. "The company is always looking for ways to support the growth of BASF's business," a BASF spokesman said.

　　The spokesman said: "The stationary energy storage market is one of our business areas, especially since energy storage systems can support the wider adoption of renewable energy and thus contribute to BASF's corporate sustainability. BASF The company wants to be a player in the energy storage market, and although different technologies are used for different applications, we are currently pursuing different approaches and technologies for a wide variety of use cases."