Commercial development work has commenced for the first phase of key design and engineering of next-generation vanadium redox flow-battery systems (VRFB Battery) for marine propulsion applications, Canada’s VanadiumCorp Resource Inc. announced.
As explained, phase I work is part of multi-phase development schedule that forms the basis of definitive agreements required to officialize a trilateral partnership among VanadiumCorp, Netherlands-based Conoship International Projects BV and Germany-based Vega Reederei and Partners GmbH, targeting zero-emission shipping markets with next generation redox flow batteries.
A multidisciplinary engineering team from the three partners is focusing on Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) system architecture, components and parts design, as well as other required tasks leading up to delivering VRFB cells and stacks of incremental sizes for testing to local R&D partners near the established VanadiumCorp GmbH facility in Germany.
In addition to this effort, R&D partners will conduct some specific lab-level material and electrolyte tests to support the engineering work and integration of the VRFB in marine vessels.
The role of VanadiumCorp is to develop the main components of the VRFB system that include a battery stack of appropriate power size and an optimized electrolyte formulation of favourable energy density.
