Perhaps more than ever , growers are see at the energy situation on their farms . This increasingly includes electricity entrepot in time of mellow energy prices . For this , grower already know how to recover Durable M.E. , a specialist in energy storage and battery arrangement . Yet Jean - Pierre Gödde was recently at a patronage fairish for the first time . He convey a salt bombardment to HortiContact . Not a newfangled excogitation , but still new to many growers .
What is extra about the table salt bombardment is that it basically contain just ' tabular array salt . ' " Yes , the common salt you put on your egg , " confirms the human from the companionship base in Goes . The core of the shelling consists of compressed salt in a ceramic casing . There are no chemicals involved . The salinity heats up , and that summons allows the stamp battery to retain and store DOE . Unlike other salt barrage fire , it is thus not a rut warehousing battery .
The inside of the battery stays around 280 degrees Celsius on average . On the outside , due to an insulate alloy around the battery , there is not much of that . " If you accommodate your hand against the outside , the temperature is about 20 degrees Celsius , " he allege .
An average family can ladder well on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks battery Jean - Pierre brought to HortiContact .
Long lifespanBesides the Li battery in different shapes and sizes offer by Durable M.E. , for Jean - Pierre , the salt bombardment is " surely the showpiece . " He started offering the salt electric battery in 2022 . There are several reasons for this . As a stamp battery specializer , he can talk about it at length . " It is the futurity because the assault and battery lasts longer , is good because it is not a flak hazard , and is sustainable because it is a purely European product . "
The common salt battery come in from Switzerland . This is , in enceinte part , the reason for the eminent Leontyne Price than the Li barrage fire . " It is not a low - salary country , but a country that stand for timbre , " he says . It is incisively the toll that often keeps people from choosing the common salt battery at present , Jean - Pierre greenback . " Many people still count at the unforesightful term . A Li assault and battery usually lasts ten year and is presently still around forty percent cheaper than the salt battery . " The latter has a lifespan of up to 20 years , so the buyer still ends up pass less in the end . " This is because it lasts longer , and you may amortize the investment over a longer time period . Moreover , a salt barrage requires small criminal maintenance . "
Resistant to coarse conditionsWhen selling battery system of rules , Durable M.E. draw a bead on to ' get the bill to 0 ' . It does this by providing tailor - made solutions . This also involve the supplying of an energy management system ( all important for optimum reply to electricity market demand for grid balancing ) , an inverter , and connection to the grid , and ( often ) solar panels . " Installation is essentially the same as with lithium batteries , " he says .
However , there are fewer restrictions on using the salt shelling . " you’re able to confidently place the common salt battery in a shed or barn or against the facade . For lithium batteries , they are sometimes required to go outdoors or are not even allowed within a minimum r of buildings . The placement of lithium batteries requires a cooled infinite . Lithium batteries do not grapple well with high or low temperature . Ideally , it should not get hot than 20 degrees Celsius and not colder than 5 degrees . Then cell legal injury can take place . "
ScalableWith the salt battery , the big restraint is mainly physical . " We can actually cater anything , up to 20 megawatts or more . What we do is all scalable . For example , we deliver in 10- , 20- or 40 - foot sea containers . The exercising weight , about 40 % heavy than a lithium battery , is still especially tricky for diligence in mobility . " Jean - Pierre knows that research is now focused on getting the weight down . Nevertheless , the salt battery is already incidentally used in mobility . " In Norway , a dozer drives with such a battery as a equaliser . It is very cold-blooded there , but the battery can defy that just fine . "
The table salt barrage fire , although fresh to greenhouse farming , is no longer an innovation . " No , the battery has already been very to a great extent tried and prove afield . The electric battery has been around for twenty - five years . It kind of started in Dubai . There , they store electrical energy to power metropolis watering and lighting systems . In Mexico and Chile , there are salt batteries on plateau . Anyway , Swiss test very extensively , so I have 100 percentage confidence in that . "
Battery is smartThe first grower to actually solve with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks bombardment is coming . Of that , Jean - Pierre is certain . Interest was already there last year , and in talks at the fair also plenty from growers .
As mentioned , Durable M.E. also supplies an zip management system with its battery . For greenhouse farming , CEMS , the name of the specific system for magnanimous farm , applies . " This is a very comprehensive scheme . you may apply it to help balance the power system and receive recompense for it , twenty-four hours - ahead trading , where the near buying and selling prices are mechanically determined from the barrage fire storage , as well as only using the battery for your own use . "
Even then , the battery proves to be smart . " The battery is equip with contrived intelligence that get a line from the end user . The battery learns to recognise patterns , so base on the weather forecast and knowledge of exposure preferences , for example , the bombardment responds accordingly by being full on time . "
" A last point that might win over greenhouse agriculturalist in opting for the sustainable battery is that the table salt assault and battery can be used as an ' extension of grid capacity , ' which is especially interesting if the gridiron is ' full . ' It ’s like this , Jean - Pierre explains , " when installing a battery , a substance abuser can create their own get-up-and-go organisation , take a leak it potential , in subject of a line expansion , to connect with the extra electricity demand with a shelling and solar panels . An additional ( large ) line from the road to the electrical energy box is then not necessitate . "
For more information : Jean - Pierre GöddeDurable M.E. B.V.Fort Oriental 114463 AP GoesTel . : +31 ( 0)6 21 38 51 11[email protected]www.durableme.nl
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