Joint project

Funder: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, former: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Period: 2020-2021

URI: https://dechema-dfi.de/en/ALISS.html

Detailed description: 
The present project aims at pushing the Aluminum ion battery (AIB) up to a universal energy storage system (ESS). Since market for local and decentralized electricity storage units connected to renewable energy sources inexorably grows and huge demand cannot be satisfied alone by established technologies such as lead-acid, Ni-MH and Li-ion batteries (LIB), novel alternative concepts are urgently required. One limiting factor besides price of raw materials for LIB is related to their predicted resource shortage. 10 kg Li and 10 kg Co are needed to power one 85 kW Tesla S car. While identified Li and Co reserves amount to about 54 and 7 Mio. tons, respectively those of aluminum are estimated to reach 30 Mia. tons. The AIB is, by contrast to LIB, an emerging technology that relies on abundant, relatively cheap, non-toxic and non-flammable electrode and electrolyte compounds.