To study the vanadium addition effects on the BSCCO superconducting system, bulk samples with the general formula Bi1.7Pb0.3V x Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 + δ (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 0.4 and 0.5) were prepared by solid-state reaction method. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analysis was used to test the proportions and energies of the elements of the compound. The XRD analyses showed an orthorhombic structure with two phases: a high-2223 phase and a low-2212 phase in addition to which an impure phase was found. The highest T c at 118 K was obtained for the sample with x = 0.2. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to identify the morphology of the superconducting phase and to investigate the influence of vanadium.