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Dual-Driven Development in Steel and Chemical Industries: How Vanadium Flakes Consolidate Their Position as a Fundamental Industrial Material

Despite their brilliance in high-end manufacturing, vanadium sheets remain irreplaceable in fundamental industries such as steel and chemicals. As a "vitamin for steel", vanadium sheets significantly improve steel performance by refining grain size; as a highly efficient catalyst carrier, its compounds drive quality and efficiency improvements in chemical production. Compared to traditional industrial metals like manganese, chromium, and tungsten, vanadium sheets, with their characteristic of "micro-addition, significant efficiency enhancement," continue to solidify their core position in fundamental industries.

In the steel industry, vanadium sheets are the "secret weapon" for enhancing steel performance. Adding only 0.15-0.25 kg of vanadium sheets per ton of rebar can increase the yield strength from 335 MPa to over 500 MPa, while maintaining good ductility and weldability. This vanadium microalloyed steel is indispensable in major projects such as high-rise buildings and long-span bridges; iconic buildings such as the Shanghai Tower and the Poa Bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, extensively utilize vanadium steel. Compared to chromium alloy steel, vanadium steel offers a more significant increase in strength and a 15% cost reduction; compared to tungsten steel, vanadium steel has a lower density, making it more suitable for lightweight structural requirements.

In the chemical industry, vanadium pentoxide (V₂O₅), derived from vanadium sheets, is an indispensable catalyst. In the contact process of sulfuric acid production, V₂O₅ catalysts achieve a conversion rate exceeding 99.8%, and 70% of global sulfuric acid production capacity relies on this technology. Compared to traditional platinum-based catalysts, vanadium-based catalysts cost only 1/20th of their cost, have a longer service life of 3-5 years, and are more resistant to poisoning. In petroleum refining, catalysts made from vanadium sheets can effectively promote heavy oil cracking, increasing the yield of light oil by 5-8 percentage points, significantly improving the economic efficiency of refining enterprises.

Currently, the application of vanadium sheets in basic industries is showing a trend towards high-end products. In the steel industry, high-purity vanadium sheets are used to produce high-strength automotive steel, which can reduce the weight of car bodies by more than 20% and help improve the range of new energy vehicles. In the chemical industry, the successful development of nano-scale vanadium flake catalysts has further improved catalytic reaction efficiency by 30%. With the upgrading of global manufacturing, vanadium sheets are no longer just simple industrial auxiliary materials, but a key support for promoting the transformation of basic industries towards high efficiency, low carbon, and high-end. Its value as an "industrial MSG" is being redefined.

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