Development of the Zinc-Chlorine Battery for Utility

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associated water-purification equipment necessary for much larger pumps. Module PackagIng-The cost of packaging of mod­ ules is a small fraction of total battery cost be­ cause of the use of low-cost plastics in the low- temperatureaqueoussystem. Thegreatersurface area of module case in the Mark 4 design is counter­ balanced by the reduced material thickness. Manufacturability-The battery module is the ma­ jor cost component in all designs. Because of its size, the Mark 4 module will be more easily manu­ factured— a hidden factor in most cost analyses for conceptual designs—which will lead ultimately to significantcostadvantagesrelativetotheMark2 and 3 designs. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS-Public accep­ tance of peak-shaving battery plants will hinge ul­ timately on meeting stringent safety and environ­ mental-impact criteria. For the zinc-chlorine sys­ tem, these criteria revolve mainly around the ques­ tion of accidental release and dispersion of toxic amounts of chlorine, the only potential hazard. The total amounts of chlorine which might be re­ leased per single line rupture are 75 tons, 25 tons, and 0.05 tons for the Mark 2, Mark 3, and Mark 4 designs, respectively. Mark 4 is by far the most acceptable because of its use of a large number of non-interconnectedhydratestores. Itshouldbe noted that chlorine storage in all designs is based on the use of solid chlorine hydrate, which decom­ poses only slowly above 9.6°C. The use of liquid chlorine,whichdecomposesabove-34°Catambient pressure, as the chlorine storage medium signifi­ cantly reduces the potential health and environ­ mental hazards in the immediate vicinity of an accidentalspill. Thesolidhydratewouldnot spread along the ground like liquid chlorine and thus would expose much less surface area to ambient heat-transfer sources. Hydrate also has a latent heat for chlorine-gas release 3.8 times that for liquid chlorine. This difference, as well as the higher temperature, substantially reduces the re­ lease rates for gaseous chlorine under all ambient conditions. A simple first-approximation analy­ sissuggestsareductionoftwoordersofmagnitude or greater when hydrate is employed. Credible accident scenarios have been developed and analyzed at EDA in terms of causes, human hazard, atmospher­ ic dispersion, and possible clean-up operations.(6) Figure 11 shows plan and elevation views of the effects of a hydrate spill at a lOOMWh Mark 4 bat­ tery plant, located on a one-acre utility-substation site. Evenafteraworst-caseaccidentandunder worst-case meteorological conditions, hazardous levels of chlorine, 50ppm or greater, are not found outside the substation perimeter. For zoning pur­ poses, it is likely that the battery portion of the plant will be enclosed in a building. This will result in the total containment of accidentally- released gaseous chlorine. From these and similar studies , EDA has concluded that with proper design the zinc-chlorine peak-shaving battery plant will pose negligible health or environmental hazards at a substation location in a residential area. SCALE-UP-For the Mark 2 design, final scale- up would not occur until construction of a lOOMWh demonstration plant because of its single hydrate store. Finalscale-upfortheMark2IMWhbattery- stack module would occur much earlier. A BEST- Facility battery based on this concept would de­ liverlOMWhdc. Itwouldconsistoftenseries- connected IMWh modules coupled to a single chlor­ ine-hydrate store, specially designed and built for this facility. Final scale-up for the Mark 3 plantwouldoccurearlierbecauseofitsuseof multiple stores. The 6MWh module prototype, how­ ever would be built for the BEST Facility, and tested there. This is true also for the hydrate 3.5ppm r~nrmrmf an rm rm rm rm rml 50*ppm Battery case rupture. Slurry spilled on the floor. Hydrate temperature — 49.3°F Ambient temperature — 100°F Wind speed — 2 m/sec Stability class — “F'' Insolation —0 Fig. 11 - Maximum chlorine dispersion after accidental spillage of chlorine hydrate from a battery module underworst-casemeteorologicalconditions. Isoplethsof50ppmand3.5ppmindicatehazardousandodor- threshold levels, respectively

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