A Critical Review and Analysis on the Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries

By W. Lv, Zhonghang Wang, Hongbin Cao, Yong Sun, Yi Zhang, Zhi Sun. 2018

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Recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has attracted significant attention in recent years due to the increasing demand for corresponding critical metals/materials and growing pressure on the environmental impact of solid waste disposal. A range of investigations have been carried out for recycling spent LIBs to obtain either battery materials or individual compounds. For the effective recovery of materials to be enhanced, physical pretreatment is usually applied to obtain different streams of waste materials ensuring efficient separation for further processing. Subsequently, a metallurgical process is used to extract metals or separate impurities from a specific waste stream so that the recycled materials or compounds can be further prepared by incorporating principles of materials engineering. In this review, the current status of spent LIB recycling is summarized in light of the whole recycling process, especially focusing on the hydrometallurgy. In addition to understanding different hydromet...

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Air and PCM cooling for battery thermal management considering battery cycle life (2020, background): “In addition, recycling of LIBs is another challenging issue that has not been solved [5].”
A Critical Review of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Processes from a Circular Economy Perspective (2019, methodology): “Sumitomo–Sony The Sony Process, with a capacity of 150 tons/year, was developed by a cooperation between Sony Electronics and Sumitomo Metal Mining Company [68,72].”