United States Vanadium Introduces $2.1 M Manufacturing Capacity Expansion

• American chemicals producer US Vanadium has actually announced a $2.1 million expansion of its manufacturing capacity for ultra-high-purity electrolyte made use of by grid-level vanadium flow batteries (VRFB).

The manufacturing expansion comes on the heels of an acquisition arrangement for 580,000 litres of ultra-high-purity electrolyte by Austrian VRFB producer and energy storage space provider Enerox GmbH, which sells its systems under its trademark name CellCube.

The CellCube contract is believed to be among the biggest such procurements of ultra-high-purity electrolyte understood to have been secured by a VRFB electrolyte producer outside China. USV strategies to create the electrolyte at its flagship Hot Springs, AR center.

The electrolyte will make it possible for operation of a 8 megawatt-hour VRFB system to be set up at a commercial manufacturing website close-by Chicago in Illinois, as part of a durable microgrid system including roofing top solar, flywheel, and also the CellCube long-duration flow battery. The system will certainly run at up to 150 percent of its small load and, as such, can offer the center a flexible range of power, from 1MW for 10 hours to as long as three megawatts for almost two hrs.

US Vanadium's expansion of its electrolyte manufacturing capacity at its Hot Springs, AR facility, to be completed in an advancement collaboration with CellCube, is developed to enable the company to produce greater than 2.25 million litres per year of ultra-high-purity VRFB electrolyte for CellCube as well as other clients. Ultra-high-purity electrolyte assists to raise the efficiency and also effectiveness of VRFB battery systems. US Vanadium's electrolyte is the greatest pureness electrolyte created anywhere in the world today, claims the company.

United States Vanadium can likewise reuse invested electrolyte from VRFB systems at a 97% vanadium healing price. "United States Vanadium eagerly anticipates supplying CellCube with our premium VRFB electrolyte and to releasing our expansion of electrolyte manufacturing capacity in Arkansas in collaboration with CellCube," claimed United States Vanadium Chief Executive Officer Mark A. Smith.

"This expansion permits United States Vanadium to enter the following phase of our development strategy, which focuses on providing the world's finest and also highest possible pureness VRFB electrolyte to numerous customers all over the world," he added.

VRFB batteries are rechargeable batteries that make the most of the fact that vanadium ions in various oxidation states can efficiently keep chemical prospective energy. VRFBs permit an almost unrestricted energy capacity, can be discharged to really high portions without damages, have very long cycle lives (a minimum of 15,000-20,000 charge/discharge cycles), as well as can stay extra for long periods without irreversible impacts to the system.

As a result of their almost unrestricted energy storage capacity, high effectiveness, zero exhausts, very long cycle lives, and fairly affordable of readily available electrical power on a lifecycle basis, VRFB power storage space systems are enabling customers to use renewable resource systems for 100% of their real power needs without needing to rely on renewable resource credit ratings and other accounting offsets.