Under the new energy wave, nickel sulfate has great potential!

New energy industry is a future industry with growth, along with the innovative development of new energy science and technology, power battery high nickel process accelerated, nickel sulfate in the whole nickel industry chain in the role of the nickel industry chain is becoming more and more obvious, but also become one of the focus of the nickel market.

Nickel sulfate

The new favorite of electric vehicles

In the traditional industry, nickel sulfate is widely used, in addition to the electroplating industry also includes the pharmaceutical industry catalysts, inorganic industrial nickel salts, metal coloring agents and so on. Nowadays, with the development of new energy industry, new energy vehicle power battery has become the main growth point of nickel sulfate demand, some data show that, benefiting from the rapid development of new energy vehicle field, China's consumption of nickel sulfate in 2021 is about 400,000 tons, of which the consumption of nickel sulfate in the field of new energy vehicle power battery accounts for about 60%.

About nickel sulfate, you also need to know

Nickel sulfate has anhydrous, hexahydrate and heptahydrate nickel sulfate, of which most of the industrial use of nickel sulfate hexahydrate, there are two variants of α-type and β-type, the former is blue tetragonal crystals, and the latter is green monoclinic crystals. When heated to 103°C, it loses six water of crystallization. Easily soluble in water, slightly soluble in ethanol, methanol, its aqueous solution is acidic, slightly soluble in acid, ammonia, toxic.

Nickel salt

Indispensable raw material for surface treatment

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of nickel salt, in recent years, China's surface treatment market for nickel salt products more and more demanding, demand is growing, nickel salt generally refers to nickel sulfate, because nickel sulfate is the most widely used, the largest production, of which, high-purity nickel salt has a low content of impurities, no organic matter with the quality of the characteristics of stability. In the new energy photovoltaic, medium and high-end architectural aluminum profiles and other aspects of the surface treatment process, also inseparable from the use of nickel salt, industrial nickel sulfate dissolved can be used as electroplating, chemical plating surface treatment technology of the plating solution, through the surface protective layer on the substrate for protection.

Nickel Sulfate

Wide range of applications

Nickel sulfate is also used in the following applications: in the production of hardened oil, it is the catalyst for the hydrogenation of fats and oils; in the pharmaceutical industry, it is used as the catalyst for the oxidation reaction in the production of vitamin C; in the inorganic industry, it is used as the main raw material for the production of other nickel salts such as nickel ammonium sulphate, nickel oxide, nickel carbonate, etc.; the printing and dyeing industry seeks to produce the phthalocyanine blue complexing agent, and it is used as a coal dyeing agent for the reduction of dyestuffs.

With the rapid development of new energy vehicles and power battery industry, China's demand for nickel sulfate has entered a period of explosive growth, Hui'an Chemical is deeply engaged in the field of fine chemicals, with excellent quality and stable supply capacity, long-term supply of industrial, refined, high purity nickel sulfate products of Jinchuan Group, one of the top 500 enterprises, is committed to ensuring the excellence of product quality and consistency of stability, and to help customers meet more process requirements.