The industrialization of vanadium batteries will drive trillions of demand

The 12th Five-Year Plan for the comprehensive utilization of vanadium and titanium resources and the planning of industrial bases will be released as soon as this year. Recently, the reporter learned from relevant sources that the idea of ​​using vanadium resources has undergone major adjustments. In the future, the smelting of vanadium-titanium and metal accompanying (co-)coal ore will gradually shift from steel-based products to the equal importance of steel and vanadium-titanium products. It is even possible that the final vanadium-titanium becomes the main product and steel may become a by-product.

Panzhihua Iron and Steel Institute of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Research Institute experts told reporters yesterday that the vanadium and titanium resources have been concerned by the national level, the future development and utilization will enhance the development and utilization of vanadium and titanium resources.

China is a country with a large reserve of vanadium resources in the world, and vanadium is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, accounting for 62.2% of the country's reserves.

The emergence of emerging industries With the temporary suspension of new nuclear power in China and the severe power shortage situation, new energy such as solar energy and wind power has once again become an area of ​​concern. As the most high-quality energy storage facility for wind power and solar power generation, industrialization and application of vanadium batteries will be on the historic stage.

With the formulation of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” vanadium resources comprehensive utilization industrial base plan, and the recent establishment of the China Steel Association’s Vanadium Industry Branch, the use of vanadium minerals has begun to rise to the national level.

As the first president of the vanadium industry branch, Yu Zisu, general manager of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group, revealed on the founding ceremony of vanadium branch that vanadium products manufacturing enterprises represented by Panzhihua Iron and Steel and Chenggang will actively promote the comprehensive development of vanadium resources. use.

In this process of comprehensive development and utilization, the reporter learned that vanadium batteries are precisely the areas with the most promising prospects for the use of vanadium. A number of people in the industry agree that vanadium batteries will drive the outbreak of vanadium demand. According to preliminary estimates by the brokers, China's vanadium battery market will reach 1.6 trillion yuan.

Targeting vanadium batteries in the vanadium battery market, they are all called full vanadium redox flow batteries.

At present, the development of vanadium batteries is accelerating. Last year, State Grid launched a 20 MW tender for wind energy and photovoltaic integrated energy storage projects in Zhangbei, and vanadium batteries have entered the bid.

Recently, the first 5-10 kw high-performance all-vanadium liquid energy storage battery prototype manufactured by Shanghai Shenli Technology Co., Ltd. was officially put into operation, and its energy storage efficiency reached the advanced level of 70%.

In addition, many places in China are also targeting the emerging industry of vanadium batteries.

Seven major industrial products in Panzhihua City have been listed in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for the development of strategic emerging industries in Sichuan Province. Panzhihua Vanadium and Titanium Steel Research Institute and vanadium and titanium of Xingchen vanadium and titanium are listed as regional specialty products.

In Chengde Shuangyu, recently, all-vanadium liquid-flow energy storage batteries and an annual output of 30,000 tons of vanadium pentoxide and other projects were successively put into production or put into production in the double-vanadium vanadium-titanium industrial cluster area. Shuangyu will use vanadium batteries as a breakthrough, strongly promoting the transition from steel strip vanadium to vanadium strip steel.

In Changsha, the city's new material cluster includes supercapacitor materials, all-vanadium flow batteries, and others. Changsha expects that by 2015 strategic new industries will have an expected sales income of about 500 billion yuan.

The expansion of energy storage batteries to help cut the peaks and fill up the valley's electricity shortages is pushing the construction of smart grids, and the application of energy storage technology will be able to develop rapidly. At present, in the demonstration projects in the smart grid, a number of energy storage technologies have been applied, including lead-acid batteries, vanadium batteries, and sodium-sulfur batteries. The development and application of these technologies will help support grid peaking and valley filling.

The vanadium battery, which is one of the energy storage batteries, is called full vanadium redox flow battery. Compared with other energy storage batteries, it has a large capacity, high efficiency, long service life, fast response, instant charge, high safety, Many advantages such as low cost.

Industry experts told the reporter that the vanadium battery has been charged and discharged for more than 100,000 times, and its service life has been more than 10 years. The vanadium battery can be charged and discharged many times without limit, and it does not cause attenuation of the energy storage material. The number of charging and discharging of other chemical batteries has a fixed upper limit. The number of sodium-sulfur batteries is 4,500 cycles and the number of lithium batteries is 2,000.

In addition, vanadium batteries can support frequent high-current charge and discharge, can be charged and discharged hundreds of times a day, more environmentally friendly. The sodium-sulfur battery is liable to cause an explosion and the manufacturing cost is relatively high.

The development of energy storage batteries also solves the difficulty of grid connection of wind power. As of March this year, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in China reached 44.5 million kilowatts, ranking first in the world, but what is worrying is the grid connection problem behind high growth. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's wind power installed capacity totals 31.07 million kilowatts, and 26% to 30% of wind power is still not connected to the grid, while the world average is 10%.

Beijing Fengneng Century Technology Co., Ltd. co-founder Ren Feng believes that the development and application of energy storage technology will help break the bottleneck problem of wind power, photovoltaic power generation, etc., and ease pressure peaking on the grid and improve power quality.

According to the relevant plans of the State Grid, the installed energy storage capacity of the wind farm should be more than 20% of the installed capacity of wind power. Therefore, wind energy storage will be the most widely used field for vanadium batteries. In addition, there are promising prospects for photovoltaic power generation, traffic and municipality, communication base stations, and UPS power supplies.

The last obstacle to industrialization Dongxing Securities predicts that in the future development of solar energy and wind power, the market capacity of vanadium batteries will be staggering. From a long-term perspective, the output value brought by photovoltaic and wind power generation will be more than seven times the current level by 2020. In particular, the growth of wind power will play a key role. In addition, in the field of electric vehicle and power grid peak shaving, vanadium batteries also have a broad application space. According to preliminary estimates, China's vanadium battery market will reach 1.6 trillion, of which the output value of wind power will be the main part.

Dong Yang Securities analyst Lin Yang told reporters that the current obstacle to the development of vanadium batteries is mainly a pay-as-you-go relationship, that is, whether it is the power generation company or the power grid that pays for the vanadium battery. Once the relevant policies are issued and the purchase relationship is rationalized, vanadium batteries will usher in explosive growth in the next 2-3 years.

Although this obstacle has not yet been resolved, the reporter learned that the current domestic large-scale vanadium mining companies like Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group, Chuanwei Group and other companies are actively seeking for resource transformation, and vanadium batteries have become their new direction of development.

Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group subsidiary Panzhihua Vanadium and Titanium has an annual production capacity of 20,000 tons of vanadium products and is the second largest vanadium product company in the world. At this year's Panzhihua Vanadium and Titanium shareholders meeting, the general manager Yu Zisu said that in the long run, vanadium batteries will be the main direction for the expansion of vanadium products. It is worth noting that Panzhihua Iron & Steel has said it plans to build a 500-ton vanadium battery liquid experimental production line, and together with Wuxi Suntech to create a Chinese solar vanadium battery demonstration base.

The development of vanadium resources development ideas The related companies have been informed that long-term benefits, "Twelve Five" comprehensive utilization of vanadium and titanium resources and industrial base planning will be released at the earliest this year, the use of vanadium resources than the previous major adjustments. In the future, the smelting of vanadium-titanium and metal accompanying (co-)coal ore will gradually shift from steel-based products to the equal importance of steel and vanadium-titanium products. It is even possible that the final vanadium-titanium becomes the main product and steel may become a by-product.

Yuan Zhibin, researcher of China Investment Advisor Metallurgical Industry, pointed out that as a rare metal, vanadium has long been mainly used in alloys to improve the performance of steel, but with the gradual development of new energy markets in recent years, the use of vanadium batteries is gradually on the right track. As with most resources, vanadium resources are also facing a situation of disorderly development. With the further expansion of the application of vanadium resources in traditional fields and new energy fields, market demand will be steadily rising.

In accordance with the 12th Five-Year Plan for Comprehensive Utilization of Vanadium and Titanium Resources, in order to protect the effective use of vanadium and titanium resources, it will reduce and limit the indiscriminate use of vanadium by privately-owned small enterprises. The upstream resources will shrink and the downstream demand will expand. The price of vanadium is expected to rise accordingly. Related listed companies Will get good long-term benefits. According to the adjustment of planning ideas and the observation of vanadium application in new energy fields, the application of vanadium batteries has broad prospects. With the continued maturity of the technology, vanadium batteries are expected to become the most promising vanadium resource utilization market.

Zhang Yanlin, research director of China Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. pointed out that a short look at steel can be a good way to describe the future direction of the use of vanadium resources, and policy promotion will greatly change the pattern of supply and demand in the vanadium market. Since it is necessary to avoid vanadium becoming the rare earth second, drawing on the experience of integration of rare earth advantageous resources, the integration of vanadium market will be based on the consolidation of vanadium resources nationwide by several major domestic groups to achieve reasonable control of supply, and the profitability of the industry will be achieved. With great improvement, the market supply and demand of vanadium will develop toward a sound track.

According to the "China Vanadium Battery Market Research Report 2011" issued by the China Investment Advisor, the vanadium resource is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, according to the distribution of domestic vanadium resources. From a worldwide perspective, the consumption of vanadium in the steel industry accounts for 85% of its total production. Vanadium is mainly used as an alloy additive in the steel industry. The application of vanadium in chemical, vanadium battery, aerospace and other fields is also expanding, and has good development prospects.

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