Closed Loop Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries to Enable Ultra-high Quality Cathode Powder.

ABSTRACT: The lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling market is becoming increasingly important because of the widespread use of LIBs in every aspect of our lives. Mobile devices and electric cars represent the largest application areas for LIBs. Vigorous innovation in these sectors is spurring continuous deployment of LIB powered devices, and consequently more and more LIBs will become waste as they approach end of life. Considering the significant economic and environmental impacts, recycling is not only necessary, but also urgent. The WPI group has successfully developed a closed-loop recycling process, and has previously demonstrated it on a relatively small scale 1 kg spent batteries per experiment. Here, we show that the closed-loop recycling process can be successfully scaled up to 30 kg of spent

SUBMITTER: Chen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367435 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature