Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Liquid metal battery

Dr. Tom Weier

Head Liquid metal battery

Fields of interest

• Electrochemical Engineering
  • refining in aqueous solutions and molten salts
  • electromagnetic control of metal deposition
  • electrolytic processes with gas-evolving electrodes
• Energy Storage
  • Liquid Metal Batteries
  • SOLSTICE
• Direct Energy Conversion
  • Energy storage and conversion with liquid metals
  • AMTEC-D – Alkali-Metal-Thermo-Electric-Converter - Type Dresden
• Flow control: electromagnetic control of boundary layers and separated flows
• Flow measurement
  • Analysis of flow structures (coherent structures, mode decomposition, Lagrangian coherent structures)
  • Hot-wire anemometry
  • Laser-Doppler Anemometry
  • Particle Image Velocimetry
• thermophysical material properties: material property database for liquid metals and molten salts

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