The Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University and China Sodium Energy Storage have a three-party technical exchange

Researcher Tang Ao from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, systematically described all aspects of the all-vanadium liquid flow energy storage system, from the electrolyte system, concentration, flow rate control, energy conversion efficiency of the stack, to the selection of the stack, ion exchange membrane, conductive screening membrane, electrode plate assembly, modular optimization of multiple stacks, etc. The technical and R&D personnel of China Sodium Energy Storage had in-depth exchanges with Researcher Tang Ao on technology application and product design optimization. Professor Yang Ying of Northwest University, as the mentor of the production and research group of electrolyte concentration and conversion efficiency, had in-depth discussions and exchanges with the technical and R&D personnel of China Sodium Energy Storage in this direction.

Tang Ao, Research Fellow, Master Supervisor, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tang Ao is a researcher and master's supervisor at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's degree in engineering from Northeastern University in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Since 2010, he has been engaged in doctoral studies and postdoctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, under the tutelage of Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, the inventor of all-vanadium liquid flow batteries. In 2016, he was funded by the Institute of Metal Research's "Introduction of Outstanding Scholars" and was introduced to work at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research areas are advanced electrochemical energy storage systems and key material technology research. The applied electrochemical technology research group is centered on researcher Yan Chuanwei. There are currently more than 30 scientific research and engineering personnel and 7 graduate students. They are committed to the basic and applied research of advanced electrochemical energy storage systems and key materials. They have established the Liaoning Province Advanced Battery Materials Engineering Technology Research Center, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Energy Storage Batteries, Institute of Metal Research-Chuanwei Group Joint Laboratory of Energy Storage Technology, etc. The research group has published articles in the Journal of Power More than 100 papers have been published in core journals such as Sources, more than 50 patents have been authorized, and the 863 project (high energy density all-vanadium redox flow battery technology, 2006AA05Z240), the 973 project (structure and performance optimization of electrode materials and electrode process kinetics research, 2010CB227203), the National Fund (thermodynamic properties of vanadium battery electrolyte, 21003141; determination of migration properties of vanadium battery electrolyte, 21373009; thermodynamic properties of HCl + H2SO4 positive electrolyte, 21403254), 16 provincial and municipal projects and many corporate commissioned projects have been developed. Electrodes, bipolar plates, diaphragms, electrolytes, battery stacks, etc. have been developed, and two industry standards have been drafted.

Research project: Simulation and optimization of electrochemical energy storage system, Principal Investigator, 2016-07--2020-06

Associate Professor Yang Ying, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwestern University

Associate Professor Yang Ying, Master Supervisor. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2011, his master's degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2005, and his bachelor's degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Petroleum Institute in 2002. In November 2017, he was funded by the "Young Key Teachers Study Abroad Program" of the China Scholarship Council to visit Professor Song Jin's research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for one year.

He is in charge of teaching undergraduate courses such as "Food Machinery and Equipment" and "New Energy and Life" and master's courses such as "Mechanical Structure Principles of Analytical Instruments", and participates in teaching undergraduate courses such as "Instrumental Analysis Experiment", "Comprehensive Chemistry Experiment" and "General Chemistry", and graduate courses such as "Frontier Advances in Analytical Chemistry".

Main research directions:

1. Electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry (solar photovoltaic cells, photoelectrochemical cells, flow batteries, solar water decomposition to produce hydrogen, PEM fuel cells, metal corrosion and protection, etc.)

2. New energy materials (photovoltaic cell electrodes, flow battery redox pairs, solar-chemical energy conversion thin film electrodes, PEM fuel cell bipolar plates, etc.)

3. Electrochemical synthesis of organic matter (electrochemical synthesis devices, electrochemical synthesis processes, etc.)

4. Micro-chemical technology development (continuous flow production equipment development, continuous flow production process, etc.)

5. Development of photoelectrochemical analysis instruments

Currently, he is in charge of two horizontal projects commissioned by enterprises. He has presided over and completed a number of research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51302216), the Shaanxi Natural Science Research Plan (No.2013JQ2007), the Shaanxi Provincial Education Department Key Scientific Research Plan (No.17JS121), the Shaanxi Provincial Education Department Scientific Research Plan (14JK1765), the Northwest University Scientific Research Fund (No.12NW28), the Northwest University Scientific Research Start-up Fund, and the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering. During his doctoral studies, he participated in one 973 project (No.2009CB220000), two National Natural Science Foundations (No.50521604 and No.50821064), and one supporting project of the Ministry of Education's "Changjiang Scholars Award Program".