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Battolyser Research at Loughborough Unv. - ETPS Interview

Loughborough University's Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) are currently researching Battolysers. These are combined battery and electrolysers which generate green hydrogen from renewables once the battery is fully charged. The ETPS team managed to catch up with Dr John Barton (Senior Researcher) and Matt Brenton (PhD Student) for a quick chat about their work. Video transcript: ETPS We caught up with the team researching Battolysers at Loughborough University, who ETPS recently donated several power systems to help aid their research. Dr John Barton I’m researching Battolysers which are combined battery electrolysers. So they are batteries that store energy electrochemically for a few hours. Then in the longer term, they also when you overcharge them, they can make hydrogen and oxygen. That’s clean green hydrogen, that you can store. ETPS So what are the benefits of this research? Matt Brenton It’s hoped that the Battolyser will be used in rural communities to provide daily energy storage and also provide hydrogen for cooking. As well as in curtailed windfarms, to provide energy storage there so they can make more profit from their systems and not waste the energy during curtailment. As we move towards green energy generation. We need methodologies for smoothing out peak energy production. By combining batteries and electrolysers into a single Battolyser. We can offer effective energy storage at a lower cost than separate battery and electrolysing units. ETPS And why are the ETPS power systems useful for your research? Dr John Barton They’re needed for to run many different test rigs all at the same time, to test different chemistries because there are dozens of different chemistries to try out and we can cyclically test them for endurance test them for endurance testing. And to test their capacity and performance. ETPS Could you briefly run us through your recent experiments Matt Brenton Yeah, so this is the first battery electrolyser that we made. And it’s a small test scale rig just to prove a proof of concept. So the idea is that you’re storing electrochemical energy in the battery, but you’re also overcharging it to produce hydrogen. So this system proves that we were able to do that without damaging the cell. Dr John Barton Having proved the concept, we the then move on to the closed cell. This is a commercially available flow battery testing cell, to develop the design of the plates. Then moving onto semi-productionised version, where we developed the design in a form that can be scaled up. Matt Brenton And now we’re currently cycling these, to ensure that it will work in real life. ETPS And most importantly, have we generated enough energy to put the kettle on for a cup of tea. Matt Brenton Yeah, sure.