Zinc-Air Battery for the Stationary Electricity Storage - ZABSES

Project summary

The storage of electricity produced by intermittent renewable sources is the bottleneck of the transition towards a fully green energy landscape. Battery technologies applied to buffer the mismatch electricity production / demand have to comply with very tight economic constraints to be competitive with fossil fuel combustion technologies. Issues related to critical raw materials are now at the forefront of the discussions and need to be addressed natively to any battery technology to be developed. The ZABSES project aims at demonstrating that a rechargeable alkaline zinc – air battery (ZAB) technology, made of abundant, environmentally friendly, intrinsically safe and robust materials, without issues for recycling step and presenting auspicious life cycle costs, can be a suitable solution. An integrated approach, joining experimental works and computational modelling, will be adopted to develop cutting-edge materials, electrode architecture and electrode compositional characteristics.