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A battery life preserver called sodium sulphate stops batteries from failing too soon. It is a component of the electrolyte used in free-flooded traditional lead acid and VRLA batteries. The detrimental depletion of lead sulphate ions is prevented by sodium sulphate acting through the common ion effect.
Sodium-sulphur cells cost less as they grow in size, like many high-temperature batteries do. Large cells have less relative heat loss than small cells, making it easier to maintain their high operating temperatures. This is due to the square-cube law. Typically large and capacious, commercially available cells are large.
The Global Battery Grade Sodium sulphate market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
An eco-friendly and inexpensive battery with some intriguing potential has been developed by an international team of researchers looking at next-generation energy storage systems.
The team’s innovative sodium-sulphur battery architecture provides a fourfold boost in energy capacity over a normal lithium-ion battery and presents a viable technology for grid-scale energy storage in the future. Theoretically, this may lead to their construction on the larger proportions required to store enormous amounts of renewable energy.
The typical forms of these rely on a sodium-sulphur chemistry and maintain the electrodes at high temperatures to maintain the electrolyte in a liquid, molten state.
The team’s concept modifies the interactions between the sulphur and sodium using carbon-based electrodes and pyrolysis, a thermal breakdown procedure.The end result is a high-capacity sodium-sulphur battery with a room-temperature capacity of 1,017 mAh g-1, which the researchers adds is roughly four times that of a lithium-ion battery.
The battery also displayed good stability and, in an “unprecedented” feat, kept almost half of its capacity after 1,000 cycles, according to the team’s study.
While offering four times as much storage capacity, their sodium battery has the potential to significantly cut prices. It certainly goes without saying, but the quicker we can reduce carbon emissions, the better our chances are of limiting global warming.
