Largo expands vanadium output

• Autores: Davide Ghilotti
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 588, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Noviembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • While over 90% of vanadium produced globally goes into steel and alloys, expanding markets are taking a small but growing share of the pie. These include the chemicals industry, where vanadium is used in catalysts, speciality alloys for aerospace and vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs).

    "There has been more vanadium used in redox flow [batteries] in 2016 so far than in all previous years combined," he told IM. "We think redox flow will [soon] become a dominant use of vanadium. Essentially 30-40% of demand for vanadium will be in redox flow in the next three-five years." On the one hand, reduced steel output is resulting in lower volumes of vanadium produced. This is the case in China, where vanadium is produced as a co-product of smelter slag in steel plants. As China cuts its steel output, its vanadium output goes down too.