June 1, 2023: Vanadium redox circulate battery pioneer Maria Skyllas-Kazacos (pictured) has joined a brand new technical advisory group arrange by minerals processing tech firm Tivan.
Tivan mentioned that on Might 31 Skyllas-Kazacos’s technical information and expertise can be extremely wanted within the improvement and standardization of the worldwide worth chain of VRFB.
Different preliminary appointments to the group embody Stéphane Leblanc and Simon Flowers.
Leblanc is the previous MD of Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium. Flowers is director and principal of Sustainergy Consulting and a former worldwide group chief at US power agency ConocoPhillips.
The group will present impartial technical recommendation to help the event of two tasks, together with Tivan’s Mount Peake in Australia’s Northern Territory – which the corporate says incorporates one of many largest flat, shallow vanadium-titanium deposits nation deposit.
The opposite is the Speewah vanadium-titanium-iron venture in Western Australia, of which Tivan acquired 100% possession in April.