H2020-Project SONAR

In search of truly competitive solutions for storing energy from renewable resources, the SONAR-team sets out to develop a framework for the simulation-based screening of electroactive materials for organic redox flow batteries (RFBs) – in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions. This will help to reduce the cost and time-to-market and thus strengthen the competitiveness of the EU’s battery industry.

  • We follow a multiscale modelling paradigm, starting from the automated generation of candidate structures for the electroactive material and then iterate through molecular-, electrochemical interface-, porous electrodes-, cell-, stack-, system- and techno-economic-level models.
  • Finally, storage technologies are only comparable when using the levelized-cost-of-storage (LCOS) as a global metric, which accounts for all relevant effects across all the scales.
  • The simulation results go into a database for further processing – we will exploit advanced data integration, analysis and machine-learning techniques, drawing on the growing amount of data produced during the project in order to speed up the computations.

Selected models will be validated by measurements in RFB half-cells and lab-sized test cells to ensure our predictions' quality. We will work closely with industrial partners to ensure the commercial viability of the results.

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Upcoming events

SONAR partners will present their work at the following upcoming events:

10th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

February 7 – 10, 2023 | Rotorua, New Zealand | More info

 

34th ISE Topical meeting

March 20 – 22,  2023 | Mar del Plata, Agentinia | More info

 

ModVal

March 21 – 23, 2022 | Duisburg, Germany | More info

 

Kraftwerk Batterie/Advanced Battery Power

April 27 – 28, 2023 | Aachen, Germany | More info

 

Smart Energy Council

May 03 – 04, 2023 | Sydney, Australia | More info

 

ECS – 243nd ECS Meeting

May 28 – June 2, 2023 | Boston, MA, USA | More info

 

ISE – 35th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

May 7 – 10, 2023 | Gold Coast, Australia | More info

 

E-world  

May 23 – 25, 2023 | Essen, Germany | More info

 

International Flow Battery Forum  

June 27 – 29, 2023 | Prague, Czech Republic | More info

 

IUPAC focus session

August 21 – 25, 2023 | The Hague, Netherlands | More info

 

74th ISE Annual Meeting

September 3 – 8, 2023 | Lyon, France | More info

 

SONAR-Workshop

September 21, 2023 | Sankt Augustin, Germany

 

244th ECS Meeting

October 8 – 12, 2023 |  Gothenburg,  Sweden | More info

 

MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

November 26 – December 1, 2023 | Boston, MA | More info

Project information / funding by:

  • Call: H2020-LC-BAT-2019
  • Grant agreement ID: 875489
  • Duration: 01.01.2020 – 31.12.2023
  • Total cost: 2,385,985.00 €
  • Coordinator: Fraunhofer

Funding disclaimer:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 875489.
 

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