| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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REWAS 2022: Recovering the Unrecoverable
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| Presentation Title |
Physicochemistry of Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Processes |
| Author(s) |
Alexandre Chagnes |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Alexandre Chagnes |
| Abstract Scope |
After a decade of rapid growth, in 2020 the global electric car stock hit the 10 million mark, a 43% increase over 2019. Battery electric vehicles accounted for two-thirds of new electric car registrations and two-thirds of the stock in 2020. While only a small number of EV batteries have aged off the streets already, millions of tons of batteries are expected to be decommissioned over the coming decades. Spent lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles which cannot be reused for other applications will be treated by appropriate recycling processes in order to extract value metals. After deep discharge, dismantling and physical separation, the blackmass will undergo chemical processes in order produce metallic salts. After a brief review on the challenges in lithium-ion battery recycling, this conference will focus on the physicochemistry involved in leaching and solvent extraction and the implementation of modelling tools to describe such processes. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Hydrometallurgy, Recycling and Secondary Recovery, |