Cenelec announce Workshop Agreement for
Flow Batteries
(updated 27 November 2011)
Standards for flow batteries - an introduction
Following discussions held at the IFBF over the past two years on the need to develop relevant standards for the flow battery industryit has beed agreed to start a CENELEC Workshop Agreement on Flow Batteries. The workshop agreement is a simpler, and possibly more rapid means of providing internationally acceptable documentation especially on emerging
technologies. This was explained in a presentation by Mr De Jongh of CEN -CENELEC
A link to Mr De Jongh's presentation is here.
A preliminary meeting was held with potential participants in July 2011 and after the necessary proceduarla steps had been taken by CENELEC a "Kick off" meeting and the first took place on 27 November 2011 in Berlin.
plenary session of the workshop.
The kick off meeting was open to all,and the plenary meeting was open to those attendees who were participants in the Workshop process. There is a fee to join the Workshop process, which covers the secretarial and other support for the Workshop as well as attendance at the plenary meetings. It is not possible to attend as an observer. The Workshop participation fee covers attendance at all the plenary meetings.
For more information please follow this link to the CENELEC announcements and papers for the Workshop kick off meeting.
For more details on the kick-off meeting in Berlin, in November 2011, please download this document.
This Workshop is proposed by the following participants who have agreed to contribute to the costs of the organization of
the workshop:
IronFlow SL
Cellstrom www.cellstrom.com
Prudent Energy www.pdenergy.com
Innovation Core SEI, Inc (SUMITOMO) www.sei.co.jp
IFBF www.flowbatteryforum.com
Lloyds Register
TECNALIA www.tecnalia.com
MEMC Electronic Material Inc, www.memc.com
SGL Carbon GmbH www.sglcarbon.de
Pacific Northwest National Laboratories www.pnnl.gov
Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov
New South Innovations Pty Limited www.nsinnovations.com.au
Fraunhofer ICT Germany
Enervault Corporation www.enervault.com
Linyang Energy Storage Science and Technology Company Ltd
ZBB www.zbbenergy.com
Redflow www.redflow.com.au
Schmid GmbH + Co www.schmid-group.com
Dalian Rongke Power Co Ltd www.rongkepower.com/
General Atomics
Outotec GmbH
Next Energy
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Preliminary meeting: 6 July 2011
At a meeting on 6 July 2011 at the Ecoplus Centre Wr Neudorf, Austria, 23 participants discussed this important topic. . A copy of the agenda may be downloaded here
The agenda included:
a) Introduction to CEN and CENELEC
b)The process of starting a workshop agreement (the route to forming standards)
c) Work towards the standards
There was also a discussion on how to address the financial implications of undertaking this work.
Downloads as pdf files
The notes of the meeting
Annex A Attendees
Annex B Presentation on CEN and CENELEC
Annex C IEC TC 105 (fuel cells) statement of work
Annex D Presentation introduction to flow batteries
Annex E Flow Battery Definition - proposed
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