An integrated project with the new salt battery could look like this.
Dusseldorf The Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) has developed a battery whose most important component is found in every kitchen: sodium chloride or, to put it more simply, common salt. Together with the Australian battery company Altech, the salt-based storage system is now to go into industrial production.
Preparations for the 100-megawatt production facility are already in full swing in Schwarze Pumpe, Saxony. “Sodium chloride is the main component of the active material. There is also nickel, which is fully recycled. Our battery is therefore based on readily available materials in Europe,” says the head of Fraunhofer IKTS, Alexander Michaelis. He helped develop the battery.
The pilot plant in Dresden is already in place. The sodium chloride battery should not only be cheaper than the lithium-ion competition – it is also non-flammable, has a longer life cycle, does not require rare earths and works regardless of the weather – regardless of whether the outside temperature is minus ten or plus 40 degrees .
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