Multiphysics modelling of lignin-derived porous electrodes for enhanced mass transport in vanadium redox flow batteries

Open Access

Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 729, 2026 1^st Sustainable Power, Energy, Transportation, and Materials Conference (SPETM 2026)


Article Number		02004
Number of page(s)		8
Section		EV Batteries and Fuel Cells
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202672902004
Published online		31 July 2026

E. Sànchez-Diez, E. Ventosa, M. Guarnieri, A. Trovò, C. Flox, R. Marcilla, F. Soavi, P. Mazur, E. Aranzabe, R. Ferret, Redox flow batteries: Status and perspective towards sustainable stationary energy storage, J. Power Sources 481 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228804. [Google Scholar]
Z. Cheng, K.M. Tenny, A. Pizzolato, A. Forner-Cuenca, V. Verda, Y.M. Chiang, F.R. Brushett, R. Behrou, Data-driven electrode parameter identification for vanadium redox flow batteries through experimental and numerical methods, Appl. Energy 279 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115530. [Google Scholar]
A. Ali, V. Ramadesigan, D.S. Monder, Modelling and simulation based impact analysis of electrode parameters on the performance of vanadium redox flow batteries, J. Power Sources 653 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/jjpowsour.2025.237659. [Google Scholar]
D. Bordignon, N. Zatta, A. Trovò, An extensive scaling-up oriented investigation on carbon felt flow-through and interdigitated Vanadium Flow Batteries cells, J. Power Sources 653 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/jjpowsour.2025.237605. [Google Scholar]
W. Li, J. Shi, Lignin-derived carbon material for electrochemical energy storage applications: Insight into the process-structure-properties-performance correlations, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 11 (2023) 1121027. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1121027. [Google Scholar]
D. You, H. Zhang, J. Chen, A simple model for the vanadium redox battery, Electrochim. Acta 54 (2009) 6827–6836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2009.06.086. [Google Scholar]
S. Hérou, J.J. Bailey, M. Kok, P. Schlee, R. Jervis, D.J.L. Brett, P.R. Shearing, M.C. Ribadeneyra, M. Titirici, High-Density Lignin-Derived Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitors with Enhanced Volumetric Energy Density, Advanced Science 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100016. [Google Scholar]
M. Skyllas-Kazacos, L. Goh, Modeling of vanadium ion diffusion across the ion exchange membrane in the vanadium redox battery, J. Memb. Sci. 399-400 (2012) 43–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2012.01.024. [Google Scholar]
J.D. Anderson, Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-the-Basics-With-Applications-Anderson-J-D, (1995) 55–66. [Google Scholar]
M.K. Das, P.P. Mukherjee, K. Muralidhar, Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media with Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69866-3. [Google Scholar]
J. Newman, N. Balsara, ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, 2021. [Google Scholar]
K.W. Knehr, E. Agar, C.R. Dennison, A.R. Kalidindi, E.C. Kumbur, A Transient Vanadium Flow Battery Model Incorporating Vanadium Crossover and Water Transport through the Membrane, J. Electrochem. Soc. 159 (2012) A1446. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.017209jes. [Google Scholar]
E. Ali, H. Kwon, J. Choi, J. Lee, J. Kim, H. Park, A numerical study of electrode thickness and porosity effects in all vanadium redox flow batteries, J. Energy Storage 28 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2020.101208. [Google Scholar]
L. Holzer, P. Marmet, M. Fingerle, A. Wiegmann, M. Neumann, V. Schmidt, Tortuosity and Microstructure Effects in Porous Media, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30477-4. [Google Scholar]
M. Becker, T. Turek, New Mass Transport Correlation for Vanadium Redox-Flow Batteries Based on a Model-Assisted Parameter Estimation, Batteries 9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9050253. [Google Scholar]

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.