One or more aspects of the present disclosure provides methods for recycling and upcycling battery anode materials. The methods include producing raw anode materials by processing spent battery materials containing a first anode material; purifying the raw anode materials; and generating a second…
The present invention provides a novel method capable of recovering Ni and Co as well as Cu from a battery waste containing Ni, Co, and Cu with a high recovery ratio, in which a leaching agent is suitable for reuse. The method for reproducing valuable metals according to the present disclosure…
The present invention provides a novel method capable of recovering Ni and Co from a battery waste containing Ni and Co while adjusting an Ni/Co ratio. The method for reproducing the positive electrode material according to the present disclosure includes a step of leaching Ni and Co, using an…
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a method of separating an aluminum current collector from a cathode material of a lithium battery, which reduces process steps and chemical consumption in technologies for recycling or reusing spent lithium batteries. In order to achieve the…
A method of removing aluminum from a waste electrode. The method includes comminuting the waste electrode containing a waste current collector and an electrode active material. The method further includes screening the comminuted waste electrode to collect the electrode active material. The method…
The present application relates to the technical field of lithium batteries and discloses a method for recovering valuable metals from lithium battery black mass. Lithium battery black mass is mixed with a sulfur-containing substance and an inhibitor, followed by roasting, water leaching, and…
Disclosed herein are a process and a device for producing a copper composite material including copper and carbon, such as graphite, and having improved processibility and/or metal recovery in processes for recycling and/or recovery of valuable metals. The composite material is a useful…
A disclosed method for separating a transition metal and Li includes: a step of dissolving a compound containing Li and a transition metal in a carboxylic acid, to obtain a first solution containing Li ions, Ni ions, and carboxylic acid anions; a step of adding an alkali to the first solution, to…
Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and reactors for recycling a positive electrode material of a lithium-ion battery. One example provides a method of recycling a positive electrode material of a lithium-ion battery. The positive electrode material comprises a metal m having a n+…
This invention is directed to a method for recovering valuable metals from spent lithium-ion-batteries using CO/CO/HO gas mixture, or reducing gas comprising CH, or solid carbon or combination thereof.
Disclosed herein are a plant for recycling lithium ion battery materials, in particular lithium ion batteries, and a process for recovering valuable materials from lithium ion battery material.
A method for removing one electrode layer from a double-sided electrode to provide a single-sided electrode includes interposing the double-sided electrode between an upper plate and a lower plate, of which the upper plate has a structure in which an opening part communicates between upper and…
Disclosed herein are a plant for recycling used batteries, in particular lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, and a process for recovering valuable materials from used batteries.
The present invention relates to a method for efficiently recovering valuable metals from end-of-life waste batteries in a dry smelting manner and, more specifically, to a lithium recovery method wherein a flux and a sulfur component are mixed with pulverized or smashed waste lithium battery cells…
A method for producing a lithium-containing electrode for a lithium-ion containing accumulator is provided, including:—producing a metal foil;—coating a surface of the metal foil with a graphite layer;—introducing the metal foil into an electrochemical cell as a first electrode, which is used as a…
Preparing battery-grade graphite including: 1) placing mixed waste electrode materials of a failed lithium-ion battery in a muffle furnace, and performing low-temperature roasting surface modification in an air atmosphere yielding a powder; 2) forming a slurry of the powder, placing the slurry in a…
A method for obtaining a metal salt from a spent lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery may include contacting a leaching solvent to a portion of the spent lithium-ion battery to form a first dispersion. The first dispersion is heated to a temperature in a range from 50° C. to 90° C. by applying microwave…
A method of solvent and electrolyte extraction and recovery of electrode powder from lithium-ion cells, from a batch mixture containing solvents, the electrolyte and anode and cathode powders, in which the electrolyte is separated from the anode and cathode powder with a solvent mixture, while the…
Provided is a method which makes it possible to suppress wear of a treatment furnace, and to safely and efficiently collect valuable metals from raw materials including waste lithium-ion batteries and the like. This method is for producing a valuable metal from a raw material including the valuable…
Disclosed herein is a process for recycling carbon and a hardly soluble alkaline earth sulfate from a leaching residue, including the steps of contacting in an alkaline earth metal contacting step a lithium battery material with an alkaline earth metal including material in a solvent yielding an…
A method for recycling lithium batteries containing the steps: (a) digesting comminuted material (), which contains comminuted components of electrodes of lithium batteries, using concentrated sulphuric acid () at a digestion temperature (T) of at least 100° C., in particular at least 140° C., so…
A method is provided for recycling a cathode active material. The method includes reacting spent cathode active material particles with an alkaline solution to form a reaction mixture containing a metal fluoride and solid cathode active material particles, and filtering the reaction mixture to…
Disclosed herein is a process for recycling aluminum hydroxide from a black mass including aluminum, the process including in the given order the steps of leaching in a first leaching step the black mass in an aqueous acid solution; separating the first leaching residue from the first leaching…
The present disclosure provides a method of recycling a waste battery, the method including: introducing and charging waste battery raw materials; heating the introduced and charged waste battery raw materials; cooling the heat-treated products; and discharging the cooled reactants, wherein in the…
A cylindrical battery sorting system includes a host, a conveying device, a sorting device, an acceleration device, and a camera device. The conveying device is electrically connected to the host, includes rollers disposed side by side, and has a feeding area, an acceleration area, and a sorting…
A system and method for recycling lithium-ion batteries is disclosed. The system comprises a battery input configured to receive battery material, a first shredder for processing battery material coupled to the battery input, wherein the battery material is submersed in a liquid when output from…
Provided herein is a process for recovery of graphite from black mass, comprising the steps of: initially separating the graphite from other components of the black mass; pre-purifying the separated graphite by means of treatment with an aprotic dipolar solvent and/or heat treatment, and sorting by…
A method for recycling a waste lithium-ion secondary battery includes (a) loading an object to be heat-treated into a heat-treatment furnace, the object being at least a part of a waste lithium-ion secondary battery in which lithium iron phosphate powder is a positive electrode material, and…
A method for recycling a waste lithium-ion secondary battery includes (a) loading an object to be heat-treated, which is at least a part of a waste lithium-ion secondary battery including a positive electrode material, into a heat-treatment furnace, (b) increasing the temperature inside the…
The present application provides a system and method for discharging and processing of lithium ion batteries to extract one or more metals. The extracted metals are in a powder form that can be reused at second stage processing facilities. The extracted metal powder can include lithium and at least…