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 | 
    Extraction of Nickel from Recycled Lithium-ion Batteries | 
  
   
    | Author(s) | 
    Meng  Shi, Sabrina  M. Reich, Ankit  Verma, John  R. Klaehn, Luis A. Diaz, Tedd E. Lister | 
  
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | 
    Meng  Shi | 
  
   
    | Abstract Scope | 
    
Aiming to recover critical materials from waste batteries, we have developed a series of operations to extract individual metals from the end-of life solid mixture based on their electrochemical (EC) and chemical properties. Our large-scale EC-leaching process isolates graphite and metallic copper by electricity, and generates a leachate solution of metals.[1] This leachate can contain aluminum and iron that are removed by pretreatment processes. Then, the remaining critical metals can be individually extracted through other extraction operations, including solvent extraction, ion-exchange, precipitation, and electrochemical dialysis.  Through these methods, we have successfully developed a feasible and flexible recovery of critical materials and high purity metal salts from recycled waste lithium-ion battery materials.
1. Diaz, L.A., et al., Electrochemical-assisted leaching of active materials from lithium ion batteries. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020. 161: p. 104900. | 
  
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | 
    Planned:  | 
  
 
    | Keywords | 
    Copper / Nickel / Cobalt, Extraction and Processing, Recycling and Secondary Recovery |