Recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries in view of lithium recovery: A critical review
By Chunwei Liu, Jiao Lin, Hongbin Cao, Yi Zhang, Zhi Sun. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
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Abstract Due to the rapid expanding of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), the projectfed demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is huge and might result in supply risks for natural lithium-containing reserves. After the service life, spent LIBs continuously accumulate in the market, and they are excellent secondary resources for lithium recovery. To alleviate resource shortage and to decrease potential environmental pollution caused by improper solid waste disposal, recycling of spent LIBs is motivated world widely in recent years. Previous studies have usually focused on the recovery of cobalt and nickel, which create high economic benefit. Recovery of lithium, however, has not been highlighted. In this article, state-of-the-art on spent LIBs recycling is discussed with emphasis on lithium recovery. In addition to understanding underlying mechanisms and physiochemistry features of various recycling methods, the possibility for industrial realization of each method is also evaluated. The complex processing steps limit the industrial implementation of hydrometallurgy-dominant methods, which usually reclaim lithium in the last step, resulting in a poor recovery efficiency of lithium. The pyrometallurgy-dominant approach is readily to scale up but lithium is lost in the slag phase. Therefore, the mild recycling (cleaner production) methods are recommended for future study since they take advantages of traditional pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy, and could decrease treatment temperature as well as acid/alkaline usage.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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- A Review on Environmental, Economic and Hydrometallurgical Processes of Recycling Spent Lithium-ion Batteries (2020, background): “Current major commercial processes for recycling spent LIBs (Liu et al. 2019).”