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Manganese and the battery supply chain","lithium-ions-unsung-hero-manganese-and-the-battery-supply-chain","article/lithium-ions-unsung-hero-manganese-and-the-battery-supply-chain",{"_uid":547,"date":548,"tags":549,"editor":553,"content":563,"excerpt":714,"featured":50,"reporter":715,"_editable":719,"component":720,"seo_title":543,"categories":721,"visibility":726,"author_company":49,"featured_image":727,"seo_description":714,"author_full_name":49,"author_job_title":49,"formattedDate":732,"formattedArticleDate":733},"cad09fc7-3703-4f18-8a1d-8f41df81f159","2020-10-16 00:00",[550],{"slug":551,"name":552},"manganese","Manganese",[554],{"slug":555,"name":556,"content":557},"didi-bostock","Didi Bostock",{"job_title":558,"image":559,"bio":561,"linkedin":562},"Editor - Energy Transition & Economics",{"filename":560},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/512x512/2c5ca5c1a3/didi-bostock.jpeg","Didi is the Energy Transition & Economics Editor at Benchmark, covering a broad range of markets across the energy transition. His remit spans from downstream sectors such as BESS and EVs, through to midstream such as new technologies and battery production, to upstream critical minerals mining. He also leads on financial analysis across these supply chains, alongside in-depth policy analysis.\n","https://www.linkedin.com/in/didi-bostock-656342198/",{"type":564,"content":565},"doc",[566,573,582,591,599,604,611,616,621,626,631,636,643,650,659,670,675,680,691,696,703],{"type":567,"attrs":568,"content":569},"paragraph",{"textAlign":49},[570],{"text":571,"type":572},"Of the ‘forgotten’ battery chemicals and metals manganese is one of the better-known. Nonetheless, it rarely grabs the headlines of its cathode siblings – cobalt and nickel – as its cost component to the cathode is relatively low, but it remains a critical material for OEM’s ambitions for higher-range electric vehicles for markets across Western Europe and North America.","text",{"type":567,"attrs":574,"content":575},{"textAlign":49},[576,578,580],{"text":577,"type":572},"Manganese is one of the largest traded commodities with ",{"text":579,"type":572},"Benchmark’s Manganese Forecast ",{"text":581,"type":572},"showing 19 million tonnes of contained manganese ore production in 2019. Approximately 90% of the manganese market is used in the steel industry, with 10% or two million tonnes used in special grades of manganese – manganese metal, manganese dioxide, and manganese sulphate.",{"type":567,"attrs":583,"content":584},{"textAlign":49},[585,587,589],{"text":586,"type":572},"While the industry is today dominated by ferroalloys, a small but growing share of manganese supply is entering the lithium ion battery supply chain. The numbers look small relative to the size of the overall manganese market — ",{"text":588,"type":572},"Benchmark ",{"text":590,"type":572},"forecasts that battery grade market will represent approximately 0.5% of total manganese consumption in 2020, with lithium ion demand accounting for 0.2% of demand.",{"type":567,"attrs":592,"content":593},{"textAlign":49},[594,596,597],{"text":595,"type":572},"While lithium ion batteries represent a seemingly tiny 1/1000th of overall manganese demand, the growth in demand is set to soar, with ",{"text":579,"type":572},{"text":598,"type":572},"showing a 10x increase in lithium ion demand from batteries.",{"type":567,"attrs":600,"content":601},{"textAlign":49},[602],{"text":603,"type":572},"Manganese is a critical material in a number of lithium ion batteries and is also used in non-rechargeable primary batteries. It is used in many cathodes as high purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM), for which there are two key processing routes.",{"type":567,"attrs":605,"content":606},{"textAlign":49},[607,609],{"text":608,"type":572},"The most common is from ore in terms of",{"text":610,"type":572},"consumption in batteries. This processing route has developed mainly due to the prevalence of this market in China. The other route is from refined high purity electrolytic manganese metal (HPEMM), which is dissolved in sulphuric acid to give the require manganese sulphate material, which cathode producers can undertake themselves.",{"type":567,"attrs":612,"content":613},{"textAlign":49},[614],{"text":615,"type":572},"The ore processing route for battery grade material has historically used carbonate ore due to its abundance in China. However, oxide ore is increasingly being imported into China for conversion due to depleted domestic carbonate resources. Currently, based on the current processing methods commercially available, carbonate ore is the most economical and the least environmentally damaging route to developing battery suitable manganese.",{"type":567,"attrs":617,"content":618},{"textAlign":49},[619],{"text":620,"type":572},"However, new technology has emerged which enables oxide ore to be processed without the need for calcination, which would improve the economics of the oxide ore processing route. But these technologies are not yet proven commercially and major Chinese producers still utilise the established calcining route for oxide ores.",{"type":567,"attrs":622,"content":623},{"textAlign":49},[624],{"text":625,"type":572},"The refined processing route — which processes HPMSM from HPEMM — is typically undertaken by cathode manufacturers that can dissolve the material in-house to produce HPMSM. The benefits to these producers are that they have more control over the parameters used for processing the material, such as the sulphuric acid used and the specific source of HPEMM.",{"type":567,"attrs":627,"content":628},{"textAlign":49},[629],{"text":630,"type":572},"This added step of quality control helps cathode producers reduce the risk of producing cathodes which need to be recalled. This is an area of concern for cathode producers who are liable for defects in cells using their materials.",{"type":567,"attrs":632,"content":633},{"textAlign":49},[634],{"text":635,"type":572},"Another battery suitable manganese material used by the battery industry is EMD (electrolytic manganese dioxide), which is primarily used in primary batteries. However, it is also used in lithium ion battery cathodes in the production of LMO (lithium manganese oxide) cathodes, which can use EMD directly in the cathode material without any additional processing route.",{"type":637,"attrs":638,"content":640},"heading",{"level":639,"textAlign":49},4,[641],{"text":642,"type":572},"Manganese in the cathode",{"type":567,"attrs":644,"content":645},{"textAlign":49},[646,648],{"text":647,"type":572},"This brings us on to manganese’s role in lithium ion cathodes, which is critical to a number of cathode chemistries. However, the",{"text":649,"type":572},"amount of manganese used in lithium ion cell varies greatly depending on the cathode chemistry.",{"type":567,"attrs":651,"content":652},{"textAlign":49},[653,655,657],{"text":654,"type":572},"For instance, at a cell level, LMO batteries have a significantly higher intensity of manganese useage than other cathode materials. LMO was also the leading cathode in terms of manganese demand up until the recent growth in NCM (nickel, cobalt, manganese) cathodes. In 2015 LMO accounted for 85% of manganese demand from lithium ion batteries according to ",{"text":656,"type":572},"Benchmark’s Manganese Forecast",{"text":658,"type":572},".",{"type":567,"attrs":660,"content":661},{"textAlign":49},[662,664,665,667,668],{"text":663,"type":572},"However, its share of demand has fallen off dramatically since then and ",{"text":588,"type":572},{"text":666,"type":572},"is forecasting that in 2020 its share of manganese’s lithium ion demand will be 10%. LMO cathodes play a niche role in the battery market and are best suited to applications requiring a high discharge rate. ",{"text":588,"type":572},{"text":669,"type":572},"is forecasting LMO’s share of the cathode market to fall to 0.3% by 2025 – compared with 5.9% in 2015.",{"type":567,"attrs":671,"content":672},{"textAlign":49},[673],{"text":674,"type":572},"However, while the share of demand attributed to LMO will fall, demand from LMO for manganese will grow in absolute terms as the entire lithium ion battery market continues to grow.",{"type":567,"attrs":676,"content":677},{"textAlign":49},[678],{"text":679,"type":572},"While demand for manganese materials will continue to grow thanks to LMO – and the closely related LMNO (lithium manganese nickel oxide) battery cathodes, the major growth story for manganese will be tied to the growing demands for NCM (nickel cobalt manganese) cathodes. With many western OEMs basing their future electric vehicle offerings on NCM technology, manganese is set to be a key beneficiary.",{"type":567,"attrs":681,"content":682},{"textAlign":49},[683,685,686,688,689],{"text":684,"type":572},"The cathode market is rapidly progressing towards an NCM dominated market. ",{"text":579,"type":572},{"text":687,"type":572},"shows that in 2015 NCM accounting for 4.6% of the market, but by the 2030s ",{"text":588,"type":572},{"text":690,"type":572},"is forecasting this to rise to over 80% of the market.",{"type":567,"attrs":692,"content":693},{"textAlign":49},[694],{"text":695,"type":572},"There are, however, a number of strands to the NCM story. Demand for NCM cathodes is transitioning towards those with higher nickel content – moving from NCM 111 (equal parts nickel, cobalt, and manganese) to the other end of the spectrum, NCM 811 (eight parts nickel, one part cobalt, one part manganese). The trend towards higher nickel cells – which is being pursued by many western OEMs – will see the demand for manganese at a battery cell level decrease as the proportion of manganese used in each cell falls relative to the increasing nickel content.",{"type":567,"attrs":697,"content":698},{"textAlign":49},[699,701],{"text":700,"type":572},"However, in absolute terms, manganese demand will grow dramatically, despite lower manganese intensity in higher nickel NCM",{"text":702,"type":572},"cells, as battery production and demand increases.",{"type":567,"attrs":704,"content":705},{"textAlign":49},[706,708,709,711,712],{"text":707,"type":572},"In 2020, ",{"text":588,"type":572},{"text":710,"type":572},"is forecasting that the majority of NCM’s market share is in NCM 523 and NCM 622 cathodes, whereas five years ago a similar share of the market was held by NCM 111. By the end of the decade ",{"text":588,"type":572},{"text":713,"type":572},"forecasts that the NCM market will be dominated by NCM 811, but there will still be a sizeable role – greater than today in absolute terms – for the lower-nickel, higher-manganese NCM chemistries.","Of the ‘forgotten’ battery chemicals and metals manganese is one of the better-known. Nonetheless, it rarely grabs the headlines of its cathode siblings – cobalt and nickel – as its cost component to the cathode is relatively low, but it remains a critical material for OEM’s ambitions for higher-range electric vehicles for markets across Western […]",[716],{"slug":555,"name":556,"content":717},{"job_title":558,"image":718,"bio":561,"linkedin":562},{"filename":560},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"cad09fc7-3703-4f18-8a1d-8f41df81f159\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[722,725],{"slug":723,"name":724},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals",{"slug":551,"name":552},"private",{"id":49,"alt":728,"name":728,"focus":728,"title":728,"source":728,"filename":729,"copyright":728,"fieldtype":730,"meta_data":731,"is_external_url":51},"","https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/f7216f4398/bm-manganese.jpg","asset",{"alt":728,"title":728,"source":728,"copyright":728},"Oct 16, 2020","16th October 2020",[],[],1780500990050]