Innovative cutting edge energy storage solutions for a greener, safer more sustainable world

Problem

There is a need to find an energy storage system that is safe, cheap and renewable. The leading battery technology – lithium ion has many advantages but also many short coming. These can be summarised below

Volatile chemistry – risk of flammability/explosion

Scarce resources – lithium is and expensive and limited resource it is dangerous to extracted from the earth.

Not the best battery tech for many storage situation

As the market for batteries expands there is a need to novel battery chemistries that can best suit the needs of a particular industry sector.

Sidra Energy’s UPS

Sidra Energy has created an aqueous aluminium air battery that uses sea water and runs of recycled low purity aluminium.

Sidra’s unique selling point for it air batteries is listed below

Anode - Uses recycled common low purity aluminium

Electrolyte - runs on either sea water or an optimised salt electrolyte

Cathode - cheap, safe and robust Air electrodes

At the moment there are no commercially available aluminium air batteries. The companies that are working to commercialise aluminium air batteries use

Anode - High purity and expensive to produce aluminium

Electrolyte – corrosive alkaline, usually sodium or sotassium hydroxide

Cathode – silver nano particle or other exotic material that is expensive to produce

Sidra’s use of sustainable materials and its mission statement to create a true commercially viable products has resulted in an air battery that is ready to meet the needs of it consumers.