Recycling battery casing materials


Recycling battery casing materials

Lyon, T.; Staudacher, M. T. L.; Mütze, T.; Peuker, U. A.

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become an indispensable part of modern life. Whether in tools, mobile phones, scooters, or electric cars, the demand for LIBs is increasing in many areas of everyday life. Various scenarios predict an almost exponential growth in the demand for electrochemically stored energy and thus also in the demand for key elements for LIBs such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Many of the current recycling processes are limited to recovering valuable metals such as cobalt and nickel due to economic viability. Base metals such as aluminum are usually not recovered and are thus lost to the raw material cycle.

Keywords: Mechanical processing; Selective crushing; Air classifier; Eddy-current separation; Housing fraction; Liberation comminution; Lithium-ion battery; Cell housing

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