| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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REWAS 2025: Sustainable End-of-Life Management and Recycling Solutions for Batteries, Wind Turbines, and Photovoltaics
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| Presentation Title |
Opportunities and Challenges in Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling – Emphasis on Pretreatment and Pyrometallurgical Processing |
| Author(s) |
Guozhu Ye, Xianfeng Hu, Elsayed Mousa |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Guozhu Ye |
| Abstract Scope |
The automobile industry is facing an exponentially increases of production of electric cars with lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). For a sustainable automobile and battery industry, the spent LiB must be efficiently recycled in an and environmental-friendly manner. Most of the current LiB recycling technologies have been focused on recovery of the most valuable metals such as Co and Ni. Attempts have been made in many projects to also recover the other components such as Li, graphite, electrolyte. This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities in recycling of spent LiBs with focus on these mentioned components, as well as the environmental challenges such as the hazardous that could be formed during shredding and processing of spent LiBs. Potential formation of PFAS will also be discussed based on the experiences from studies carried out at Swerim. The economic challenges for recycling of LFB will also be highlighted. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Recycling and Secondary Recovery, Pyrometallurgy, Extraction and Processing |