| Abstract Scope |
The expected enormous growth in electric mobility poses resource challenges, such as requiring large amount of critical raw materials like nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Due to this expected growth, increasingly larger amounts of Li-ion batteries from electric vehicles will reach their end-of-life, and significant amounts of production scrap from cell and battery manufacturing will be generated over the next decade. Hence, in order to close the loop, it is crucial to develop and industrialize sustainable battery recycling flowsheets, so that both production scrap and end-of-life batteries can be recycled back to their ‘battery grade’ building blocks for new battery materials and reduce the need for additional critical raw materials. In this presentation, current status of battery recycling technologies will be discussed and UMICORE’s approach to develop an industrial-scale battery recycling process with minimal environmental impact will be introduced. |