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sizes="(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px" /> </a> <div class="wp-caption-text">Zinc-Cerium Redox Flow Battery: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_the_Divided_Zinc-Cerium_Redox_Flow_Battery.jpg</div> </div> </header> <div class="post-content post-dynamic"> <p>We wrote yesterday about flow batteries. And how a professor hopes to use them to realize his dream of universal electric vehicles.<span id="more-11333"></span> Today, we thought it would be interesting to research the history of flow batteries. We found to our surprise the design dates back to 1884. That was when a French engineer decided to power an airship with an electric propeller.</p> <h3>The Incredible, Mighty Airship Called La France</h3> <figure id="attachment_11336" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11336" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chalais-Meudon-Hangar.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-11336" src="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chalais-Meudon-Hangar.jpg" alt="flow batteries" width="350" height="233" srcset="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chalais-Meudon-Hangar.jpg 1024w, https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chalais-Meudon-Hangar-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Chalais-Meudon-Hangar-768x511.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-11336" class="wp-caption-text">Chalais Meudon Hangar: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_France_(airship)#/media/File:Chalais_Meudon_2002.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthias Pfeifer</a>: P. Domain</figcaption></figure> <p>La France was a 170-foot long, 66,000-cubic-foot monster by the standards of the day. It cruised for 8 kilometers in 23 minutes on the power of a 998-pound flow battery, in 1884.</p> <p>We looked for evidence, and found the remains of the original hangar at Chalais Meudon, in the southwestern district of Paris, France.</p> <p>La France was the brainchild of Charles Renard – who invented flow batteries for the purpose – and his colleague Arthur Krebs. They borrowed an army airship for the experiment and made seven flights. Five of these flights returned under their own zinc-chlorine flow battery power. However, history is silent on what the exasperated generals said.</p> <h3>Flow Batteries Return to Life in the Mid-20<sup>th</sup> Century</h3> <p>In 1954, 70 years later, a German scientist (of unknown name to us) patented a procedure for storing electrical energy in liquid. This time the base materials were titanium-chlorine, and hydrochloric acid. Then NASA picked up the ball 19 years further on in 1973. They produced the first iron-and-chromium redox flow battery to store energy at a future moon base.</p> <figure id="attachment_11338" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11338" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Conceptual-Moon-Base.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-11338" src="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Conceptual-Moon-Base.jpg" alt="flow batteries" width="350" height="233" srcset="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Conceptual-Moon-Base.jpg 1024w, https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Conceptual-Moon-Base-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Conceptual-Moon-Base-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-11338" class="wp-caption-text">Conceptual Moon Base: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon#/media/File:Lunar_base_concept_drawing_s78_23252.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a>: P. Domain</figcaption></figure> <p>The moon base never happened because the target shifted to Mars. Commercial research continued into uranium, and zinc-bromine flow batteries. But these were too hazardous for consumers to use.</p> <p>In 1984, the University of New South Wales, Australia built a prototype vanadium redox <a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/flow-battery-made-water-soluble-materials-may-cheaper-better-alternative-storing-energy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flow-battery</a>. This was the first time there was the same chemical on either side of a flow battery membrane. Scientists are hoping flow batteries hold the key to replacing coal and nuclear power stations with wind and sunshine.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/flow-batteries-bring-light-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flow batteries</a> have potential to respond in milliseconds, and deliver electricity for hours. We have a lot to thank two gentlemen who wanted to fly the world鈥檚 first fully controllable airship. Imagine what they would say about how we benefit from their experiment.</p> <p>Related</p> <p><a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/instant-battery-charges-bright-idea/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instant Battery Charges, A Bright Idea</a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/accumulators-capacitors-airships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accumulators, Capacitors and Airships</a></p> <p>Preview Image: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_the_Divided_Zinc-Cerium_Redox_Flow_Battery.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divided Zinc-Cerium Redox Flow Battery</a></p> <div class="tagcloud"><a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/arthur-krebs/" rel="tag">arthur krebs</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/charles-renard/" rel="tag">charles renard</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/flow-batteries/" rel="tag">flow batteries</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/flow-battery/" rel="tag">flow battery</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">history</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/moon-base/" rel="tag">moon base</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/nasa/" rel="tag">NASA</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/university-of-new-south-wales/" rel="tag">university of new south wales</a> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/tag/who-invented/" rel="tag">who invented</a></div> </div> <div class="post-share"> <span class="text">Share.</span> <span class="share-links"> <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F" class="fa fa-twitter" title="Tweet It" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Twitter</span></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F" class="fa fa-facebook" title="Share on Facebook" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Facebook</span></a> <a href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F" class="fa fa-google-plus" title="Share on Google+" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Google+</span></a> <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F&media=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F06%2FZinc-Cerium-Redox-Flow-Battery.jpg" class="fa fa-pinterest" title="Share on Pinterest" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Pinterest</span></a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F" class="fa fa-linkedin" title="Share on LinkedIn" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">LinkedIn</span></a> <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F&name=A+Brief+History+of+Flow+Batteries" class="fa fa-tumblr" title="Share on Tumblr" target="_blank"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Tumblr</span></a> <a href="mailto:?subject=A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Flow%20Batteries&body=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.upsbatterycenter.com%2Fflow-batteries-history%2F" class="fa fa-envelope-o" title="Share via Email"> <span class="visuallyhidden">Email</span></a> </span> </div> </article> <div class="author-box"> <h3 class="section-head">About Author</h3> <section class="author-info"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ddd7f1bc8bcf832743762ea6d2fccc6e?s=100&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ddd7f1bc8bcf832743762ea6d2fccc6e?s=200&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <div class="description"> <a href="https://blog.upsbatterycenter.com/author/richard/" title="Posts by Richard" rel="author">Richard</a> <ul class="social-icons"> </ul> <p class="bio">I tripped over a shrinking bank balance and fell into the writing gig unintentionally. 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