Strengthening Valuable Metal Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries by Environmentally Friendly Reductive Thermal Treatment and Electrochemical Leaching

Author(s):  
Shuya Lei ◽  
Yintao Zhang ◽  
Shaole Song ◽  
Rui Xu ◽  
Wei Sun ◽  
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Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Jihye Mok ◽  
Dalsu Choi ◽  
Suk Ho Bhang

Here, we introduce an environmentally friendly way of fabricating carbon nanoparticles which can be utilized as conductive agent for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Polyethylene (PE), which comprises the largest portion of plastic waste, was used as a source for carbon nanoparticle synthesis. Sulfonation allowed chemical structural transformation of innately non-carbonizable PE into a carbonizable conformation, and carbon nanoparticles could be successfully derived from sulfonated PE. Then, PE-derived carbon nanoparticles were used as conductive agents for LIBs, and assembled cells exhibited stable performance. Even though the performance is not as good as Super-P, utilization of PE as a source of conductive agent for LIBs might provide an economical advantage to upcycle PE.


2018 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Sheng Chen ◽  
Hsing Jung Ho

The paper concerns an approach about using environmental technology and hydrometallurgical process to the recovery of valuable metal from waste cathode material produced during the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries. It is noteworthy that the content of nickel, manganese and cobalt from cathode material are in the extraordinary large proportion. In the acid leaching step, the essential effects of H2SO4 concentration, H2O2 concentration, leaching time, liquid-solid mass ratio and reaction temperature with the leaching percentage were investigated. The cathode material was leached with 2M H2SO4 and 10 vol.% H2O2 at 70 °C and 300 rpm using a liquid-solid mass ratio of 30 ml/g and the leaching efficiency of cobalt was 98.5%, lithium was 99.8%, nickel was 98.6% and manganese was 98.6% under optimum conditions. Kinetic study demonstrates the activation energies for those analyzed metals with Arrhenius equation and manifests the data with hybrid reaction control mechanism. The process was proved from activation energies ranged from 27.79 to 47.25 kJ/mol. Finally, the valuable metals will be leached in sulfuric acid effectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (14) ◽  
pp. 2798-2801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoji Chen ◽  
Pei Hu ◽  
Xianluo Hu ◽  
Yueni Mei ◽  
Yunhui Huang

Direct thermal treatment of commercial BiI3 powder leads to BiOI nanosheets as a high-capacity anode for lithium-ion batteries.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (22) ◽  
pp. 16795-16799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric M. Garcia ◽  
Vanessa de Freitas C. Lins ◽  
Hosane A. Tarôco ◽  
Tulio Matencio ◽  
Rosana Z. Domingues ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (33) ◽  
pp. 17403-17411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beibei Wang ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Hui Wang

We propose a novel strategy to fabricate Mo2C/GR hybrids through a simple and environmentally friendly carburization process. The as-prepared Mo2C/GR hybrids display significantly improved electrochemical performance compared to bulk Mo2C and pure GR.


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