An Australian-developed electrolysis technology that uses industrial waste heat to reduce electricity consumption by around 30% is moving toward industrial testing, with a AUD 30 million pilot plant planned in Victoria.
A cascaded molten salt thermal energy storage design for coal-fired units reports 82.081 to 89.262 MW peak shaving, 48.84% round trip efficiency and a 4.1 year payback.
A Journal of Power Sources model finds powerline communication stays reliable in 200 and 400 cell series packs at 20 dB SNR but degrades at 1200 cells.
A Journal of Energy Storage paper turns electric vehicle battery signals into text for a language model agent that diagnoses faults and drafts maintenance advice, tested on ten vehicles and judged by three experts, with accuracy figures not given in the abstract.
A Yeosu company demonstrated a containerised system that turns silicon recovered from waste solar panels into hydrogen and electricity on site, with sodium silicate as a reusable by-product.
BCA Industries has designed a mobile battery recycling system on two semitrailers that it says captures about half the available high purity black mass on site, but throughput, cost and regulatory status are not disclosed.
A Nature Energy paper couples alkaline electrolysis with waste heat desalination. At 250 kW it reports 48 Nm3 per hour of hydrogen; ENB checks the water balance and finds an open question.
