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IFBF 2012:  26-27 June in Munich, Germany

The International Flow Battery Forum in 2012 will be held at the Sheraton Arabellapark Hotel, Munich, on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th of June 2012.

The Final Call for Papers has been issued and submissions close on

Tuesday 31 January 2012

Abstracts up to 500 words should be submitted to papers@flowbatteryforum.com.

Registrations will open soon and for more information on fees and accommodation please see our Registration page.

Workshop Agreement for Flow Batteries

Work on Cenelec Workshop 05 "Flow Batteries" has now officially commenced.  At the "kick off " meeting held in Berlin on 27 November 2011, the business plan was approved by participants and a chairman and secretariat nominated and agreed.  Immediately following the kick off meeting, the first plenary session took place.  Five working groups have been formed and an aggressive timetable has been agreed to provide input into the draft workshop agreement.   This is the first part of the process to prepare an international standard or standards for flow batteries, and already many leading manufacturers and suppliers have joined the Workshop process.  Click on the side bar "Standards for flow batteries" for further details.

If you wish to join the workshop agreement as a participant, please contact the secretariat for the workshop agreement, OVE Austria:  email  r.valenta@ove.at or the the IFBF office  info@flowbatteryforum.com

Cenelec announce Workshop Agreement for Flow Batteries

A CENELEC Workshop Agreement is a route towards the development of international standards and especially suitable for emerging technologies where rapid agreement will bring early benefits. 

Over the past 20 years, the interest in flow battery technology has grown, because of its potential for mass production of low cost, high performance energy storage system capable to be incorporated into large scale devices. As a result of this interest, the IFBF identified the need for a Workshop Agreement on Flow Batteries and has worked with the staff of CENELEC and a number of potential participants to develop a plan for a Workshop Agreement.

We are pleased that a CENELEC Workshop is planned as a first step towards standardization in the domain of flow batteries. It is intended to be a stepping stone towards a future European and/or international standard.

For more information click on "Standards for Flow Batteries" in the menu on the left.

Flow battery expert receives the Phil Symons Award:

Rick Winter, founder of the flow battery company Primus Power, and a regular contributor to the IFBF, was presented with the Electricity Storage Association's Phil Symons Award at the ESA meeting in San Jose in June 2011. Rick has been associated with a number of flow battery developments during his career, and in addition was one of the founders of the Utility Battery Group - the former name of the ESA.

Phil Symons, who died five years ago, was the main driving force behind the ESA, as well as being a keen electrochemist and one of the early pioneers of flow batteries.  The Phil Symons Electricity Storage Award was created in 2006 in honour and remembrance of Phil Symons’s life and career in the developing electricity storage industry. The award is given annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of electricity storage.

  Barack Obama on Vanadium Flow Batteries

(This is a link to YouTube)

The International Flow Battery Forum.

In 2011, 100 delegates met at the second flow battery forum to network, discuss, listen and participate in more than 29 presentations and panel sessions on standards and actions to support the ongoing development of this exciting industry.  The call for papers is already open for 2012's meeting, and with ongoing work to develop international standards for flow batteries the community is well placed to be in the centre of the flow battery industry. 

A link for delegates to download conference presentations will soon be available.  A bound copy of the conference papers was available to all registered delegates and additional copies are now available for purchase as hard copy or electronic format. Please see the link for conference documentation on the die bar on the left.

The 2011 meeting was opened by David MacLeman, R&D Manager for SSE Power Distribution. SSE is an innovative integrated energy company, and operates many different types of energy storage, including pumped hydro, zinc bromine flow batteries and is installing sodium sulphur and thermal storage. David is a an experienced R&D practitioner with insight into the deployment of storage and provided a challenging overview to launch our conference. 

Professor Maria Skyllas - Kazakos presented her insight into development opportunities for flow batteries by a video link. In replying to her presentation,   Dr David Hodgson, on behalf of the Society for the Chemical Industries announced that the Kastner Medal for 2011 has been awarded to Professor Skyllas Kazakos.    We congratulate her!

You can use this website to browse the programme for this year, and order copies of the proceedings by following the link to " IFBF Archive". Proceedings of this years conference will be made available to non delegates approximately one month after the Forum..   Please use the menu sidebar to the left to navigate around the site.

Background:

The 2010 flow battery forum was the first event in recent years to bring together developers, researchers and all those with an interest in flow batteries, with the intention to:

   - raise the profile of flow batteries as a modern and effective means of electrical energy storage
   - promote the latest developments in the science, technology and deployment of flow batteries
   - encourage publication of peer reviewed papers on all aspects of flow battery technology and deployment

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