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Solid state batteries to reduce accidental fires in EVs

Metal-ion batteries, specifically, Li-ion batteries (LIB) are being realized as the next-generation battery technology due to their overwhelming advantages, including high energy density (270 Wh kg-1) and high cell voltage (3.6 V). However, safety is the major limitation for the conventional LIB because the explosion in portable devices such as laptop, PCs, smartphones, electric vehicles, […]

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Progressing towards energy-efficient vanadium redox flow batteries

India is the third largest energy-consuming country in the world. With the government making huge advancements to provide electrification (according to the Renewable Energy Report 2021 by IEA, 100 million people gained access to residential electricity in 2018 alone) for residential users, India has an enormous energy demand. To tackle this, the government has planned

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Solar Water Splitting: A Viable Technique for Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, greater quantity in water. It is considered as a holy grail in the energy community. It is an advanced renewable energy source and carrier produced from other energy sources. It also offers a high value of gravimetric energy compared to gasoline (i.e., 120 MJ/kg versus 44

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Can Lead Acid Flow Battery be a Solution for India’s Renewable Energy Pivot?

Lead is very cheap and abundant; most importantly it is globally recycled about 99% In our daily life, we are totally depending upon power whether it is an electric vehicle, mobile charger or laptop charger, they always carry a letter ‘V’ means Volt -the electricity unit named after the physicist Alessandro Volta. This physicist developed

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Methanol Economy- A Road that leads to the Hydrogen Economy.

Several advantages and challenges in using hydrogen as fuel were addressed in our previous article. There is no doubt in hydrogen’s ability to fill the shoes of a clean and efficient fuel that we expect. However, due to technological, sourcing, political, policy-making, and safety reasons, it might take a while before hydrogen could replace the

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Separation of Coal Mine Methane Gas mixture via sII and sH hydrate formation

[Picture credits: Aerial view of an open-cast coal mine Belchatow, Poland. Credit: Łukasz Szczepanski / Alamy Stock Photo]   Coal mine methane (CMM) also known as coal bed methane (CBM) is an unconventional natural gas resource and a significant source of clean energy, which is produced and emitted continuously from coal mine activities either from

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A better way of meeting the energy needs of remote communities

Power grids are expected to undergo significant change in operation as more non conventional sources of energy being integrated into it. While the broad goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it is important to recognize that many such sources are not very deterministic and hence cannot be relied upon to give power as and when needed.

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Zinc-Air Battery: an Environment Benign Energy Storage System for Future EVs

An electric battery has become ubiquitous necessity in modern life with its presence in everything from toys to cell phones to electric bikes and cars. It is an electric power source which stores the energy in the electrochemical systems. The device contains two electrodes, a negative terminal (anode) acts as carrier of electrons which pass

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