Materials for energy conversion and storage

This course will focus primarily on the energy context and methods of energy conversion and storage, the historical development of electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies and modern applications, as well as electrochemical mechanisms. Finally, links will be made between modern energy conversion and storage technologies and current societal issues.

Hourly volumes:

            CM: 11

            TD: 9

• Understanding the operating principles of an electrochemical generator that works by converting hydrogen or storing it in accumulators.
• Make the connection between these principles and the main applications.
• Understand the different systems for converting and storing electrochemical energy.
• Understanding the issues and challenges associated with electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems

• Electrochemistry:
  • Redox potentials, Nernst's equation, equilibria.
• Solid-state chemistry.
• Interface chemistry.
• Analytical Electrochemistry

• 70% final check.
• 30% continuous assessment.

• Materials for energy conversion
  • Methods of hydrogen production
  • Fuel cells
• Materials for energy storage
  • Lead-acid batteries
  • Alkaline batteries
  • Nickel accumulators
  • High-temperature accumulators
  • Lithium and post-lithium accumulator

• Electrochemical Energy, Advanced Materials and Technologies, CRC Press (2016)
• C. Glaize, S. Geniés, Lithium Batteries and Other Electrochemical Systems, Wiley (2013)
• C. A. Vincent, B. Scrosati, Modern Batteries, Butterworth (2003)
• Recent scientific articles.