公开(公告)号：US20220209274A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

申请号：US17644396

申请日：2021-12-15

申请人： UOP LLC

发明人： Natalie L. Nicholls ,  William T. Kender ,  Melissa L. Helm

IPC分类号： H01M8/18 ,  H01M8/04791 ,  H01M8/0202

摘要： A redox flow battery with an electrochemical balancing cell having first and second chambers. The first chamber includes a catalyst coated substrate and the second chamber includes an electrode. Each receives an electrolyte from the redox flow battery. There is a single interface between the two chambers. The balancing cell reverses parasitic reactions in the first chamber that occur in the redox flow battery. The products of the reversed reactions are carried away from the electrochemical balancing cell and back to the redox flow battery in the electrolyte that carried the reactant to the first chamber. Also, processes for reversing a parasitic reaction in a redox flow battery.