Process for the recovery of cobalt oxalate from spent lithium-ion batteries

By Liang-Fu Chen, Xincun Tang, Yang Zhang, Lian-Xing Li, Z. Zeng, Yi Zhang. 2011

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

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The Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries: a Review of Current Processes and Technologies (2018, background): “1 3 precipitants include sodium hydroxide, oxalic acid, ammonium oxalate, and sodium carbonate, all of which can react with cobalt and lithium ions to form insoluble precipitates of cobalt hydroxide [50, 116], cobalt oxalate [35, 81, 101, 107, 110, 112, 117, 118], lithium phosphate [70, 91, 101, 119”
A Review on Environmental, Economic and Hydrometallurgical Processes of Recycling Spent Lithium-ion Batteries (2020, methodology): “4 M H2SO4 + 10 vol%H2O2 85 100 120 Li:96, Co:95 (Chen et al. 2011)”
An overview on the processes and technologies for recycling cathodic active materials from spent lithium-ion batteries (2013, methodology): “Besides the mechanical and physical methods, selective precipitation is also employed to separate the cathodic active material by dissolving aluminium foil with alkali solution [4, 26–28].”
Oxalate production by fungi: significance in geomycology, biodeterioration and bioremediation (2014, methodology): “Chemical and hydrometallurgical processes based on vacuum pyrolysis, oxalate leaching and precipitation have been applied to recover cobalt and lithium from spent lithium-ion batteries and zinc plant residue (Wang and Zhou, 2002; Chen et al., 2011; Sun and Qiu, 2012).”
A Critical Review of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Processes from a Circular Economy Perspective (2019, background): “Laboratory Process Suggested by Aalto University The process discussed by References [43,44] encompasses a mixture of mechanical pre-processing stages followed by a pyrometallurgical step and a thorough hydrometallurgical treatment to recover 99% of the LIB materials.”
Eco‐Efficiency Analysis of a Lithium‐Ion Battery Waste Hierarchy Inspired by Circular Economy (2017, background): “…technologies (Espinosa et al. 2004; Xu et al. 2008; Dunn et al. 2012; Georgi-Mascheler et al. 2012; Ramoni and Zhang 2013; Hendrickson et al. 2015; Nan et al. 2005; Dorella and Mansur 2007; Swain et al. 2007; Ferreira et al. 2009; Li et al. 2009; Chen et al. 2011; Li et al. 2013, etc.).”
Extraction of lithium from primary and secondary sources by pre-treatment, leaching and separation: A comprehensive review (2014, methodology): “Chen et al. (2011a) recovered cobalt oxalate from the spent LIBs by using an alkali–acid leach process.”