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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.

An Introductory Seminar will be held on the afternoon of Monday 25th June 2012.  This can be booked through the conference registration page. 

A Plenary Meeting of the CENELEC Workshop Agreement for Flow Batteries will be held on the morning of Monday 25th
of June 2012.

Our sponsor, SGL Carbon, are organising a trip to their facility at Meitingen on Thursday 28 June 2012. The list for this trip is now closed as all available places have been taken.  If you wish to attend this visit you may place your name on a reserve list when you register.

For more information on fees please see our Registration page.

Accommodation and Munich

The conference venue is the Sheraton Arabellapark Hotel, Munich.  While the special room rates are no longer available, should you wish to book accommodation at the hotel please click here.

For information on other hotels in Munich and general information about Munich, including transport, please see our Links page

List of Accepted Papers is now available

A list of all the papers accepted for presentation (oral and poster) at the IFBF 2012 is now available. Please see the
Conference Programme page or click here to download.

Draft Programme available

A draft programme is now available.  Please see the Conference Programme page or click here to download.

The Call for Papers has now closed and authors have now been informed of the decision regarding their submitted paper.

IFBF 2012 Sponsors and Supporters

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.

Ralph Zito:  1927 - 2012  Flow battery expert

Ralph Zito, a pioneer of flow batteries, died in April 2012 in Florida.  The author of numerous patents, Ralph has worked on a number of flow battery chemistries and types, including zinc bromine, polysulfide bromide and the common ion redox.

Barack Obama on Vanadium Flow Batteries (This is a link to YouTube)

The International Flow Battery Forum.

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 International Flow Battery Forumhas been established 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 conference papers on all aspects of flow battery technology and deployment

If you are interested- please join our mailing list, let us know what you would like to see in future meetings and join us in 2012.

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