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Get PriceMajor Chinese vanadium producers have taken part in producing vanadium batteries, indicating that China is indeed involved in the production of these batteries.
Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group, China's biggest vanadium producer, formed a joint venture in October with battery maker Dalian Rongke Energy Storage Group to build a 2,000-cubic-meter-per-year vanadium electrolyte factory in Sichuan.
China has brought the world’s largest vanadium redox flow power storage project online in the northern Chinese city of Dalian. It was connected to China’s power grid on October 30 this year, according to the Chinese Academy of Science.
China dominates, not just mining, but also processing — more than 50% of all processed vanadium — highly energy-intensive and requiring complex extraction methods, especially to convert ore or slags into battery-grade vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) or electrolyte solutions used in VRFBs. Secondary sources are unable to make up the shortfall.
In the long run, vanadium batteries are more cost efficient considering their longer life cycle compared with other storage batteries. A lithium battery can normally work for around 10 years, but a vanadium battery can run for 20-30 years.
But vanadium’s relevance is expanding, in particular, as the active element in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), a leading non-lithium energy storage technology.
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