With over 1,200 applications from 23 countries, the Emerging Technologies Competition was set to be it’s biggest yet. As the competition celebrated its 10th anniversary on 7 July, they hosted a hybrid event for their 23 finalists to pitch to their panel of judges.
The University of Lincoln made it to the final round of the competition in the Energy category with ‘Vanadium pentoxide recovery from ash to produce battery electrolyte’.
The technology traps vanadium from the recovered ashes of coal power plants. Vanadium is a critical element for the Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, a very real alternative to ion-lithium batteries and able to store high amounts of energy. Their technology allows the economic recovery of difficult-to-recover vanadium.
Read more about the Emerging Technologies Competition here.