A sodium–sulfur (NaS) battery is a type of molten-salt battery that uses liquid sodium and liquid sulfur electrodes. This type of battery has a similar energy density to lithium-ion batteries, and is fabricated from inexpensive and low-toxicity materials.
Sodium is a globally abundant, inexpensive, and high energy density material that has an established precedent and promising future as the basis for a family of grid-scale batteries. With a moderate melting temperature, molten sodium offers distinct advantages in terms of electrochemical kinetics and flexibility of battery form design.
Current collectors, interfaced with a battery’s anode and cathode, facilitate electron transfer in and out of the battery. In a molten sodium battery, the anode is sodium metal, and the battery must be operated above its melting temperature (97.8 °C).
With low redox potential, abundance, and low cost, metallic sodium is a favorable material for the anode, and this group of molten salt batteries is often referred as sodium-β-alumina batteries (NBBs). There are two main types of NBBs that have been widely studied: the sodium-sulfur (Na-S) battery and sodium-metal halide (ZEBRA) batteries.
This chapter discusses two types of molten salt batteries, the sodium-sulfur (Na-S) battery and sodium-metal halide (ZEBRA) batteries. Both types are based on a β-alumina solid electrolyte and a molten sodium anode. This chapter first reviews the basic electrochemistry and materials for various battery components.
The Na–S battery was first patented by Ford Motor Company in 1968 and represents one of the first battery systems to use the molten Na anode. The Na–S battery is simple in its construction, consisting of a molten Na anode, a BASE separator, and a molten sulfur cathode.
Engineered Sodium Metal Anodes: Tackling Sulfur‐Derivative …
The development of room temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na─S) batteries has been significantly constrained by the dissolution/shuttle of sulfur-derivatives and the instability …
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High-Energy Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur and Sodium…
According to their report, HT Na–S batteries need to operate at a temperature of approximately 300 to 350 °C, in which sodium metal, sulfur and the resulting polysulfides are all in molten states with high chemical reactivity. This causes severe safety concerns and limits the application of HT Na–S batteries for mobile devices and ...
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Sodium Sulfur Battery – Zhang''s Research Group
Sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries are a type of molten salt electrical energy storage device. Currently the third most installed type of energy storage system in the world with a total of 316 MW worldwide, there are an additional 606 MW (or 3636 MWh) worth of projects in planning.
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Molten Sodium Batteries
For example, in a sodium-sulfur battery, molten sulfur is reduced to form molten polysulfides, while in a ZEBRA battery, Ni 2+ ions are reduced to metallic nickel. Meanwhile, …
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Research Progress toward Room Temperature Sodium …
Traditional sodium-sulfur batteries are used at a temperature of about 300 °C. In order to solve problems associated with flammability, explosiveness and energy loss caused by high-temperature use conditions, …
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Engineered Sodium Metal Anodes: Tackling Sulfur‐Derivative …
The development of room temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na─S) batteries has been significantly constrained by the dissolution/shuttle of sulfur-derivatives and the instability of sodium anode. This study presents an engineered sodium metal anode (NBS), featuring sodium bromide (NaBr) along with sodiophilic components like tin metal (Sn) and sodium-tin (Na─Sn) …
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Molten salt batteries for medium
The cathodes of NBBs can be molten sulfur for an Na-S battery or solid transition metal halides for sodium-metal halide batteries. The Na-S battery has been widely considered …
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Sodium-Beta Alumina Batteries: Status and Challenges
The battery is composed of an anode, typically molten sodium, and a cathode that can be molten sulfur (Na-S battery) or a transition metal halide incorporated with a liquid phase secondary ...
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Molten salt batteries for medium
The cathodes of NBBs can be molten sulfur for an Na-S battery or solid transition metal halides for sodium-metal halide batteries. The Na-S battery has been widely considered one of the most attractive energy storage devices, especially for …
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(PDF) High performance sodium-sulfur batteries at low …
Raising the surface treatment temperature, ceramic solid-state electrolyte β′′-Al 2 O 3 decorated with now highly metallic lead microspheres improves surface wetting of molten sodium and thus ...
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Sodium Sulfur Battery – Zhang''s Research Group
By Xiao Q. Chen (Original Publication: Feb. 25, 2015, Latest Edit: Mar. 23, 2015) Overview. Sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries are a type of molten salt electrical energy storage device. Currently the third most installed type of energy storage system in the world with a total of 316 MW worldwide, there are an additional 606 MW (or 3636 MWh) worth of projects in planning.
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High-Energy Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur and …
According to their report, HT Na–S batteries need to operate at a temperature of approximately 300 to 350 °C, in which sodium metal, sulfur and the resulting polysulfides are …
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High Performance Sodium-Sulfur Battery at Low Temperature …
typically around 280 °C with a molten salt electrolyte, e.g. NaAlCl4 (m.p. 157 °C), which is inert to the cathodic reactions and ensures rapid transport of sodium ions between the solid electrolyte and the solid cathode to achieve high activities.6 On the other hand, sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries use molten sulfur/polysulfides as the cathode ...
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Cell Concepts of Metal–Sulfur Batteries (Metal = Li, Na, …
Among the more popular lithium–sulfur and sodium–sulfur batteries, we also comment on recent results on potassium–sulfur and magnesium–sulfur batteries. Moreover, specific properties related to the type …
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Sodium Sulfur Battery
Sodium–sulfur batteries are rechargeable high temperature battery technologies that utilize metallic sodium and offer attractive solutions for many large scale electric utility energy …
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A high-voltage, low-temperature molten sodium battery enabled …
For example, although the S in NaS batteries has a melting point of 115°C, the sodium polysulfide (Na 2 S x) discharge products will solidify below 240°C, limiting S redox kinetics and dramatically reducing battery performance. 13 Molten salt-based ZEBRA batteries use a solid cathode (Ni/NiCl 2) suspended in a molten salt electrolyte (NaAlCl 4).
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Cell Concepts of Metal–Sulfur Batteries (Metal = Li, Na, K, Mg ...
Among the more popular lithium–sulfur and sodium–sulfur batteries, we also comment on recent results on potassium–sulfur and magnesium–sulfur batteries. Moreover, specific properties related to the type of light metal are discussed. Today''s market for rechargeable batteries is dominated by lead-acid and Li-ion technology.
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Sodium Sulfur Battery
Sodium–sulfur batteries are rechargeable high temperature battery technologies that utilize metallic sodium and offer attractive solutions for many large scale electric utility energy storage applications. Applications include load leveling, power quality and peak shaving, as well as renewable energy management and integration. A sodium ...
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Frontiers | Molten sodium batteries: advances in chemistries ...
During discharge of Na-S batteries, Na metal at the negative electrode is oxidized to Na + ions. These ions pass through the BASE and react with the sulfur electrode to form a series of sodium polysulfides, ranging from Na 2 S 8 to Na 2 S 2. However, Na 2 S 2 solidifies and cannot be reverted to elemental sulfur upon charging, so discharge should be ceased before any Na 2 S …
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Molten-salt battery
The sodium–sulfur battery (NaS battery), along with the related lithium–sulfur battery employs cheap and abundant electrode materials. It was the first alkali-metal commercial battery. It used liquid sulfur for the positive electrode and a ceramic tube of beta-alumina solid electrolyte (BASE).
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Progress and prospects of sodium-sulfur batteries: A review
A commercialized high temperature Na-S battery shows upper and lower plateau voltage at 2.075 and 1.7 V during discharge [6], [7], [8].The sulfur cathode has theoretical capacity of 1672, 838 and 558 mAh g − 1 sulfur, if all the elemental sulfur changed to Na 2 S, Na 2 S 2 and Na 2 S 3 respectively [9] bining sulfur cathode with sodium anode and suitable …
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Sodium Sulfur Battery – Zhang''s Research Group
Sodium sulfur (NaS) batteries are a type of molten salt electrical energy storage device. Currently the third most installed type of energy storage system in the world with a …
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Sodium Sulfur Battery
The sodium-sulfur battery (Na–S) combines a negative electrode of molten sodium, liquid sulfur at the positive electrode, and β-alumina, a sodium-ion conductor, as the electrolyte to produce 2 V at 320 °C. This secondary battery has been used for buffering solar and wind energy to mitigate electric grid fluctuations. Recent research has ...
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Molten-salt battery
The sodium–sulfur battery (NaS battery), along with the related lithium–sulfur battery employs cheap and abundant electrode materials. It was the first alkali-metal commercial battery. It …
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Sodium–sulfur battery
A sodium–sulfur (NaS) battery is a type of molten-salt battery that uses liquid sodium and liquid sulfur electrodes. [1][2] This type of battery has a similar energy density to lithium-ion batteries, [3] and is fabricated from inexpensive and low-toxicity materials.
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Unconventional Designs for Functional Sodium-Sulfur Batteries
Sodium-sulfur (Na–S) batteries that utilize earth-abundant materials of Na and S have been one of the hottest topics in battery research. The low cost and high energy density make them promising candidates for next-generation storage technologies as required in the grid and renewable energy. In recent years, extensive efforts have been devoted to the diversity …
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Trends in the Development of Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries ...
Abstract— This review examines research reported in the past decade in the field of the fabrication of batteries based on the sodium–sulfur system, capable of operating at an ambient temperature (room-temperature sodium–sulfur (Na–S) batteries). Such batteries differ from currently widespread lithium-ion or lithium–sulfur analogs in that their starting materials are …
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