By Petra de Boer / Published on Fri, 2007-07-06 12:47
A flow battery is a type of battery that can be designed very flexibly. It can be designed for high power applications as well for high-capacity electricity storage. Other types of electricity storage, like conventional batteries or flywheels, do not show this flexibility and therefore have some limitations to their applications. Flywheels are mostly used for short durations (<5 minutes) and high power storage (> 500 kW), while batteries are used for lower power (<500 kW) and long durations (> 1 hour).
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