Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a formula and a process of an all-vanadium redox flow battery electrolyte, and various performance indexes of a battery system are ensured on the basis of reducing the production cost of the electrolyte. After the indexes of the impurity elements are released, compared with the electrolyte with the corresponding elements exceeding the standard, the efficiency of the battery is obviously improved; compared with the existing high-purity electrolyte, the production cost of the electrolyte is greatly reduced.
The above purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
the content of elements influencing internal resistance in the raw material vanadium is limited, and after the vanadium raw material containing corresponding elements is completely dissolved to form electrolyte, the corresponding ion content of the vanadium raw material is satisfied:
contains any one or more than one of the following elements (1) to (7), and when each element is present alone, the following elements are satisfied:
the content unit of the listed elements is as follows: mg/L;
(1) main group IA: comprises Li, Na, K and Rb, wherein any element is less than or equal to 200mg/L, and Li + Na + K + Rb is less than or equal to 800 mg/L;
(2) main group IIA: comprises Be, Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, wherein any element is less than or equal to 60Mg/L, and Be + Mg + Ca + Sr + Ba is less than or equal to 300 Mg/L;
(3) group IIIA: comprises B, Al and Ga, wherein any element is less than or equal to 150mg/L, and B + Al + Ga is less than or equal to 600 mg/L;
(4) main group IVA: comprises organic total C elements, the organic total C is less than or equal to 500mg/L, and the total molecular mass of the organic total C elements is calculated according to the total molecular mass of the organic total C elements containing the C functional groups;
(5) subgroup IVB: comprises Ti, wherein Ti is less than or equal to 100 mg/L;
(6) group IIB: comprises Zn, Cd and Hg, wherein any element is less than or equal to 30mg/L, and Zn + Cd + Hg is less than or equal to 100 mg/L;
(7) subgroup VIII: comprises Ni, Co and Fe, wherein any element is less than or equal to 30mg/L, and Ni + Co + Fe is less than or equal to 100 mg/L; any other element of the family is less than or equal to 1 mg/L;
the electrolyte is any one of the parameters of sulfuric acid system electrolyte and HCl system electrolyte and the mixed acid system electrolyte.
Further, when elements of main group IA and main group IVA are simultaneously present, the following requirements should be satisfied: li + Na + K + Rb + total organic C elements are less than or equal to 1000mg/L, and any element is less than or equal to 200 mg/L;
further, when both group IIA and group IIIA elements are present, the following requirements should be satisfied: be + Mg + Ca + Sr + Ba + B + Al + Ga is less than or equal to 700Mg/L, and any element is less than or equal to 80 Mg/L;
further, when elements of subgroups IVB, IIB and VIII are present simultaneously, the following requirements should be satisfied: ti + Zn + Cd + Hg + Ni + Co + Fe is less than or equal to 300mg/L, and any element is less than or equal to 25 mg/L;
wherein the requirements for the electrolyte system are as follows:
sulfuric acid system electrolyte parameters: unless otherwise specified, the concentration of free sulfuric acid is more than 1mol/L and less than 4mol/L, and the concentration of vanadium ions is more than 1mol/L and less than 3 mol/L;
HCl system electrolyte parameters: unless otherwise specified, the concentration of free hydrochloric acid is more than 5mol/L and less than 11mol/L, and the concentration of vanadium ions is more than 2mol/L and less than 4 mol/L;
electrolyte parameters of the mixed acid system: unless otherwise specified, the concentration of free hydrochloric acid is 5mol/L or more and 11mol/L or less, the concentration of vanadium ions is 2mol/L or more and 4mol/L or less, and the concentration of free sulfuric acid is 0.1mol/L or more and 3mol/L or less;
the specific operation is as follows: such as: preparing 1L, 2mol/L vanadium electrolyteA total of 95% of V is required2O5187.63g of vanadium raw material, but when the raw material contained 0.32% sodium sulfate, the raw material was completely dissolved to form a vanadium electrolyte solution containing Na+200mg/L, so if the electrolyte product Na is controlled+<200mg/L, the raw material with the sodium sulfate content of less than 0.32 percent is selected.
The process control method of the invention is as shown in figure 1, the raw materials are adjusted and prepared according to the process control method, and the electrolyte of the all-vanadium redox flow battery is prepared on the basis of the element content required by the formula;
the production process of the electrolyte is divided into the following two methods: calcination reduction and electrolysis, and chemical reduction and electrolysis.
(I) calcination reduction + electrolysis method
1) According to the standard of the amplified element content in the technical scheme of the invention, the raw material of ammonium metavanadate with vanadium purity of 95% is selected.
2) Adding ammonium metavanadate as raw material into a reaction furnace, and adding reducing substance (NH)3) Calcining at the high temperature of 500-900 ℃ for reduction reaction, wherein the product is vanadium (V) tetraoxide2O4) Powder, water, nitrogen and the like, cooling the reaction materials in the furnace to below 50 ℃, washing and filtering the reaction products for the first time, and filtering out insoluble silt or washing away part of soluble salts and the like;
3)V2O4adding the powder into an acid-proof reaction kettle containing 10-15 wt% sulfuric acid or 20-25 wt% hydrochloric acid, mixing, heating, stirring, reacting for about 30 min, filtering for the second time to obtain VOSO containing 10 wt% sulfuric acid4Or HCl concentration 25-30 wt% VOCl2An aqueous hydrochloric acid solution;
4) the prepared electrolyte with the valence of 4 or more than 3.5 is pumped into a negative storage tank of an electrolysis system, and the electrolysis current (80 mA/cm) is set2) Carrying out electrolytic reduction to obtain a sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid electrolyte finished product with a valence state of 3.5 (the vanadium ions with the valence of 3 and 4 respectively account for 50% of molar concentration).
The process of adding complexing agent or precipitant to remove impurity ions is omitted in the conventional process (because a certain amount of impurity ions are allowed to exist according to the process requirement).
(II) chemical reduction + electrolysis method
When the vanadium raw material is powdery V2O5In the process, the raw materials are selected according to the standard of amplified element content in the technical scheme of the invention, and the purity of vanadium is 95 percent.
1) The production method of reduction and electrolysis is adopted. The production process comprises the following steps: according to the requirement of vanadium concentration in the finished product, the vanadium concentration is changed to V2O5Adding 10-15% sulfuric acid or 20-25% hydrochloric acid into the material, stirring to partially dissolve, and stirring for 60 min;
2) then according to the ratio of 5-valent vanadium ion (VO)2 +) Is completely reduced into (VO)2+) The required amount of reducing agent is calculated and added with reducing agents such as oxalic acid, ethanol, saccharides and the like (SO can be directly introduced)2Gas), making 5-valent vanadium ions (VO) partially dissolved in 1)2 +) Reduced to 4-valent vanadium ions (VO)2+) And finally promote V2O5All dissolve and reduce into 4-valent vanadium ions (VO)2+);
3) Insoluble matter (silt, etc.) is removed by filtration, and then reduced to vanadium ion (VO) having a valence of 42+) Introducing the solution into a cathode storage tank of an electrolysis system for electrolytic reduction, and setting the electrolytic current density to be 80mA/cm according to the electrode area of the electrolysis system2Until the cathode electrolyte reaches 3.5 (the vanadium ions with 3 valence and 4 valence respectively account for 50% of molar concentration);
4) and filtering again to remove insoluble impurities (scraps, polymers and the like) in the solution to obtain a finished product of the sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid electrolyte.
The process of adding complexing agent or precipitant to remove impurity ions is omitted in the conventional process (because a certain amount of impurity ions are allowed to exist according to the process requirement).
Proper release of part of impurity ions does not affect various parameters of the electrolyte, but the impurity ions directly affect the conductivity of the electrolyte when reaching a certain upper concentration limit, and further affect the efficiency of a battery system. The invention controls the influence of the impurities on the performance of the all-vanadium redox flow battery by controlling the upper limit of the content of the impurity elements.
The existing all-vanadium electrolyte requires high purity (> 99%) of raw material vanadium, which causes the cost of the electrolyte to be high. Allowing certain elements to be present in certain concentrations can reduce the overall cost of the electrolyte without affecting the solution properties.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. compared with the existing high-purity electrolyte system, after related impurity elements are increased to a certain degree, the system efficiency is still maintained at a higher level, and the system still operates normally;
2. compared with the existing electrolyte system which is excessively released and contains the above elements, the voltage efficiency is improved by more than 1 percent;
3. the method can effectively control the content of impurity elements participating in electrode reaction, improve the performance of a battery system, prolong the service life of equipment such as battery resistance and the like, effectively reduce the cost of the electrolyte, reduce the purchase cost of electrolyte raw materials by more than 20 percent, and reduce the production cost of the electrolyte by about 15 percent.
in the examples, the single element in the VIII subgroup is Ni, Co, Fe.
Comparative example 1
Experimental samples: the existing sulfuric acid system is high-purity electrolyte;
scale of galvanic pile: 2kW, charge and discharge mode: CC, operation time length: 50 cycles;
the experimental results are as follows:
average efficiency of the stack: CE: 94.5%, VE: 84.5%, EE: 79.9 percent;
resistivity: 4.10 omega cm.
Comparative example 2
Experimental samples: the existing hydrochloric acid system is high-purity electrolyte;
scale of galvanic pile: 2kW, charge and discharge mode: CC, operation time length: 50 cycles;
the experimental results are as follows:
average efficiency of the stack: CE: 95%, VE: 84.9%, EE: 80.7 percent;
resistivity: 4.55 omega cm.
Comparative example 3
Experimental samples: the existing mixed acid system is high-purity electrolyte;
scale of galvanic pile: 2kW, charge and discharge mode: CC, operation time length: 50 cycles;
the experimental results are as follows:
average efficiency of the stack: CE: 94.5%, VE: 84.8%, EE: 80.1 percent;
resistivity: 4.44 Ω.