New Type Lithium Iron Phosphate Project Getting Government Grant

Cooperated by Shenzhen Nonfemet Technology Co., Ltd and Shenzhen University, Project of Industrialization of New Type Lithium Iron Phosphate used as cathode for lithium ion batteries successfully gets the approval of 2009 financing projects of Shenzhen Municipal Research Funds for Technology R&D Plan and to be the fifth financing project in 2009. It will get 120 thousand RMB government grants, which is proved on the website of Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information.

Lithium ion battery is the ideal chemical battery for modern communications, IT and portable electronic products, an also is the preferential power battery for hybrid and other new energy automotive products, which has a wide application prospect and huge economic benefits. With advantages of theoretic high capacity, good thermal stability and environmental protection, lithium iron phosphate is considered as the first choice of lithium iron battery positive material. And its cost takes 40% of the whole battery cost. If the demanding rate is 10~20% for hybrid automobile, electric tool, electric bicycle and electric scooter, the lithium iron battery demand of global market is up to 28 billion Tons, and lithium iron phosphate demand is 60 thousand Tons. The global lithium iron phosphate productivity in 2008 is 10 thousand Tons and actual output is 5,000 Tons, which shows the downstream demand is far larger than the current productivity. Calculated by the leading lithium iron phosphate enterprise A 123, the shortage of global lithium iron phosphate production will reach 100,000 Tons.

Our industrialization project of new type lithium iron phosphate is cooperated by Shenzhen Nonfemet Technology Co., Ltd and Shenzhen University. It is supported by our company industrial capacity, the research strength of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering School of Shenzhen University, and the hardware of Shenzhen Functional Polymer Preparation Lab. There is a staff of 20 people, of which 12 have bachelor’s degree or above and 3 are professor or professor-level engineers, so we have a powerful R&D and industrialization capacity in material realm. Following is the core R&D staff.

1、 general manager of Shenzhen Nonfemet Tech. Co., Ltd, is a professor-level engineer and nonferrous metallurgy postgraduate of Central South University graduated in 1988. He has long been engaged in manufacture and technical work. He was one of the Top 10 Youth in Shaoguan Smelter and the master of new product development in Shaoguan City in 1994. He was cited as the cross-century academic and technical leader in 1996. He got the State Council special allowance in 2008 and got the second prize of national technological innovation and Guangdong first prize of scientific and technological progress.

2、 Liu Jianhong, dean of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering School of Shenzhen University, director of Shenzhen Functional Polymer Preparation Lab, professor and Ph. D supervisor. He got the Dr. of high polymer chemistry of Fudan University in 1989; he was hired as Ph. D supervisor of China University of Geosciences Wuhan in 2003; was the prominent teacher of Guangdong South; was the trainee of Guangdong Qianbaishi Project Excellent Talented People(provincial level); got the 4th Shenzhen Youth Science and Technology Award and Shenzhen government subvention in 2005; was awarded advanced individual of Qianbaishi Project in Guangdong colleges, and got Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City progress prizes in science and technology for many times.

3、 Huang Jianmin, Deputy General Manager of Shenzhen Nonfemet Tech. Co., Ltd, engineer. Graduated in 1996 as powder metallurgy postgraduate of Central South University, he works on the microstructure and performance research of ultrafine particle metal powder materials, and also has special innovations on manufacturing high-strength powders materials with low-pressure hot isostatic pressing facilities, making high-performance metal powder flake with high-energy milling facilities and special zinc aluminum coating. He has strong theoretical and practical engineering experience on metal manufacture technology and microstructure analysis, and strong ability of projects industrialization with one published paper and three patents of invention.

The project includes: manufacture and doping of mesoporous lithium iron phosphate and research on technology of graphene encapsulating doped with mesoporous lithium iron phosphate. We have finished the carbonizing facility, fluid bed dryer and precision spraying preoxidation furnace used for the project.

Officers of Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information visited and inspected our company and were very satisfied with the manufacturing and R&D facilities of our company.