{"id":4999,"date":"2020-11-20T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.greentech.at\/en\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:28:20","slug":"power-storage-made-of-vanillin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/","title":{"rendered":"Power storage made of vanillin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

“It is a groundbreaking success in the field of sustainable energy storage technologies,”<\/em> says Stefan Spirk from the Institute for Bio-based Products and Paper Technology at Graz University of Technology. He and his team have succeeded in making redox flow batteries more environmentally friendly by replacing their core element – liquid electrolytes, whose components are mostly made up of ecologically harmful heavy metals or rare earths – with vanillin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Sustainable energy storage<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Vanillin – a common flavoring agent that is also contained in vanilla crescent, for example – is one of the few fine chemicals currently extracted from lignin. Spirk and his team use mild and green chemistry to convert vanillin into a redox-active material that can be used in flow batteries without the need for toxic and expensive metal catalysts. The process can be carried out at room temperature and with common household chemicals. Vanillin is also present in large quantities and can be bought in the supermarket or, by means of a simple reaction, can be separated from lignin, which in turn is produced in large quantities as waste in paper production.<\/p>

The splitting and refining processes have been patented and the successful test results published in the journal “Angewandte Chemie”. Now the researchers want to commercialize the technology, especially since the process is highly scalable and suitable for continuous production. “The plan is to hook up our plant to a pulp mill and isolate the vanillin from the lignin that remains as waste. Whatever is not needed can then be returned to the regular cycle and used for energy production as usual. We are in concrete talks with Mondi, a leading global manufacturer of paper-based products, which is showing great interest in the technology,”<\/em> says Spirk.<\/p>

For the final implementation, he said, the technology must be tested in real operation. The company is now looking for energy supply companies that will install the start-up’s redox flow technology in its infrastructure and thus reduce the load on the grid. Spirk is convinced of success, because: “We can keep the value chain around the procurement of raw materials and components up to the generation of electricity on a regional basis, enable storage capacities of up to 800 megawatt hours, relieve the strain on the power grid and make an important contribution to the energy turnaround”<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Important piece of the puzzle for the expansion of renewable energies<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Redox-flow technology is an important piece of the puzzle for the expansion of renewable energies such as wind and solar power. It is characterized by its ability to store large amounts of energy and thus cushion voltage peaks in the power grid. In addition, the batteries are suitable as backup storage for stationary applications such as power plants, hospitals, mobile phone systems or e-fuelling stations. Redox flow batteries are more easily scalable, less toxic, better recyclable and more fireproof than lithium-ion batteries. Other major advantages are their high life expectancy and low self-discharge.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanillin is useful in more than just Christmas biscuits: researchers at Graz University of Technology have successfully converted flavouring agent vanillin into a redox-active electrolyte material for liquid batteries. Redox flow batteries can now be made more environmentally friendly by replacing their core element \u2013 liquid electrolytes with components that are generally made of ecologically
\nharmful heavy metals or rare earths \u2013 with vanillin. The technology is a major step towards ecologically sustainable energy storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-energy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPower storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Power storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vanillin is useful in more than just Christmas biscuits: researchers at Graz University of Technology have successfully converted flavouring agent vanillin into a redox-active electrolyte material for liquid batteries. Redox flow batteries can now be made more environmentally friendly by replacing their core element \u2013 liquid electrolytes with components that are generally made of ecologically harmful heavy metals or rare earths \u2013 with vanillin. The technology is a major step towards ecologically sustainable energy storage.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Green Tech Valley Cluster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"410\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"249\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sonja Kapfer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sonja Kapfer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sonja Kapfer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/bf24cfe8d1c06abc596c948bb574b33f\"},\"headline\":\"Power storage made of vanillin\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\"},\"wordCount\":495,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Green Energy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\",\"name\":\"Power storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png\",\"width\":410,\"height\":249,\"caption\":\"\u00a9 Lunghammer \/ TU Graz\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Power storage made of vanillin\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/\",\"name\":\"Green Tech Valley Cluster\",\"description\":\"Willkommen im Green Tech Valley, dem globalen Hotspot #1 f\u00fcr Climate und Circular Solutions\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Green Tech Valley Cluster\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-GTV_Log-scaled.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-GTV_Log-scaled.png\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1734,\"caption\":\"Green Tech Valley Cluster\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/greentechcluster\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/bf24cfe8d1c06abc596c948bb574b33f\",\"name\":\"Sonja Kapfer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53d47fe0075cd5d50f6fd50de30ede593130fb8c6a1d373fc299be80058b0e40?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53d47fe0075cd5d50f6fd50de30ede593130fb8c6a1d373fc299be80058b0e40?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sonja Kapfer\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Power storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Power storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster","og_description":"Vanillin is useful in more than just Christmas biscuits: researchers at Graz University of Technology have successfully converted flavouring agent vanillin into a redox-active electrolyte material for liquid batteries. Redox flow batteries can now be made more environmentally friendly by replacing their core element \u2013 liquid electrolytes with components that are generally made of ecologically harmful heavy metals or rare earths \u2013 with vanillin. The technology is a major step towards ecologically sustainable energy storage.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/","og_site_name":"Green Tech Valley Cluster","article_published_time":"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":410,"height":249,"url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Sonja Kapfer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sonja Kapfer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/"},"author":{"name":"Sonja Kapfer","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/bf24cfe8d1c06abc596c948bb574b33f"},"headline":"Power storage made of vanillin","datePublished":"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/"},"wordCount":495,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png","articleSection":["Green Energy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/","name":"Power storage made of vanillin - Green Tech Valley Cluster","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png","datePublished":"2020-11-20T10:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-29T10:28:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stromspeicher-Vanillin-TU-Graz-HP_cut730x448.png","width":410,"height":249,"caption":"\u00a9 Lunghammer \/ TU Graz"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/power-storage-made-of-vanillin\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Power storage made of vanillin"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/","name":"Green Tech Valley Cluster","description":"Willkommen im Green Tech Valley, dem globalen Hotspot #1 f\u00fcr Climate und Circular Solutions","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#organization","name":"Green Tech Valley Cluster","url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-GTV_Log-scaled.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-GTV_Log-scaled.png","width":2560,"height":1734,"caption":"Green Tech Valley Cluster"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/greentechcluster"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/bf24cfe8d1c06abc596c948bb574b33f","name":"Sonja Kapfer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53d47fe0075cd5d50f6fd50de30ede593130fb8c6a1d373fc299be80058b0e40?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53d47fe0075cd5d50f6fd50de30ede593130fb8c6a1d373fc299be80058b0e40?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sonja Kapfer"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98751,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/98751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentech.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}