Advanced vanadium developer Technology Metals Australia (TMA) will become a key investor in the Australian government-backed Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre’s (FBICRC) vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project.
As a key investor in the Development of Electrolytes Project, TMA will gain insights that can be leveraged by its electrolyte subsidiary, vLYTE, and support the development of the Murchison Technology Metals Project vanadium and titanium mine.
The Development of Electrolytes Project is expected to run over three years with set milestones scheduled to mark progress and provide feedback to participants.
The Development of Electrolytes Project has been established by the FBICRC to optimise electrolyte performance within vanadium redox flow batteries.
The study will involve experimenting with additives and stabilising agents and measuring the effect of impurities to ultimately determine the optimal concentrations for VRFB electrolytes.
Much of the work will be completed at the Engineering and Energy Department Laboratories as part of the Harry Butler Institute (Centre for Water, Energy and Waste) at Murdoch University, Western Australia.
TMT as a major participant in the Project has committed a cash contribution, access to its technical team and provision of materials such as magnetite concentrate and vanadium pentoxide from the 100% owned MTMP.
