DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH CAPACITANCE MATERIAL FOR BINDER FREE SOLID-STATE AND SUSPENSION BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITORS

Abstract

For the development of any nation and the growth of any civilization, energy is an essential and vital component. Since the first industrial revolution between 1850-2000, there has been a sharp rise in global energy consumption. Traditional energy resources such as coal, natural gas and petroleum have helped nourish today's human civilization for a long time. Excessive use of these resources, however, has resulted in the depletion of these resources. In addition, excessive use of these non-renewable resources has caused their depletion and severe environmental damage due to the emission of toxic chemicals. As a cumulative effect of all the discussed issues, electrical energy has become human beings' fastest-growing consumable form of energy. This need has paved the way for the large scale implementation of renewable energy resources like solar and wind. The electricity delivery can done by sending electrons over larger power grids or, by building the facility locally. In any case, these methods are both more effective and quicker than the transport of non-renewable fossil fuel resources. As such an excellent solution to meet the energy needs of the next generation, renewable energy resources still suffer from their intermittent nature. For example, a solar power plant cannot function at night time. A storage facility is necessary to address the intermittent existence of renewable energy supplies. Among various energy storage solutions which ranges from mechanical systems like pumped-storage, compressed air, hydroelectricity, flywheel, and gravity batteries to superconducting magnetic storage and others, electrochemical energy storage systems are highly feasible and versatile to meet storage needs. Important progress has been made in the last few decades in the area of the development of electrochemical energy storage technologies. This development demonstrates the modularity and feasibility of electrochemical EES technology in a variety of applications, ranging from small consumer electronic gadgets such as watches to large-scale ancillary power stations.