Vanadium: Extraction, Manufacturing and Applications

Vanadium: Extraction, Manufacturing and Applications offers systematic coverage of the state-of-the-art in research and development of vanadium. Five chapters cover the basic background of vanadium, including extraction, applications, and the development of vanadium in industry and manufacturing, with a focus on industrial Panzhihua in China, which has one of the largest reserves of vanadium in the world. Based on the author’s 30+ years of experience in vanadium-based materials, including in industrial development, this book provides a solution for understanding the nature, sourcing, manufacture, and uses of vanadium in high-tech industry.

Vanadium is critical to high-tech industry, and is used as a catalyst and as a functional material. It has applications including in high-stress alloys, batteries and supercapacitors, and catalysts. Research on vanadium has accelerated rapidly in scope and depth in recent years.

• Covers the different vanadium extraction processes
• Describes the configuration of industry relating to vanadium, focusing on products and processes
• Details vanadium applications in technology and in relation to particular product categories
• Considers the case of vanadium resource shortages, and the industry response
• Provides the necessary background to the theory, practice, technology, and manufacture of vanadium in contemporary industry

Yang Baoxiang is a Senior Engineer at Sichuan Institute of Industrial Technology, Secretary General of the Panzhihua Non-Ferrous Metal Academy in China, and council member for the Panzhihua Environmental Protection Academy. He is employed as an expert by government and industry on safety, environmental protection, science and technology, and information and economy. He has researched vanadium and titanium use and product development, led key state projects, and been honored by several prestigious awards for his work. He has published two books, and over 40 research articles in the field

Jinyong He is the chairman of Panzhihua Yinjiang -Jinyong industry &trade co., LTD., and senior engineer of smelting. He has been committed to vanadium battery research and demonstration, cooperated with the Chinese academy of engineering physics to complete three large-scale demonstrations of vanadium batteries, comprehensively improving the docking and connection capacity of vanadium batteries and energy storage transformation. At the same time, the thermal reduction preparation of high-purity vanadium metal is being studied, with a 98.7% high purity vanadium metal achieved.

Dr Guifang Zhang is professor of Kunming university of science and technology. He is committed to the teaching and research of vanadium-titanium magnetite smelting technology, and the results of his research are deep, offering a wide range of model data reference, which has contributed to increased vanadium production and other applications

Jike Guo is senior engineer of Panzhihua Iron and Steel research institute,who took part in a lot of Vanadium related projects,won prizes and awarded by government