{"id":12834,"date":"2021-12-07T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:59:49","slug":"batteries-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2021\/12\/07\/batteries-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers invent new technique for faster, greener recycling of electric vehicle batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Researchers have discovered an ultrasonic delamination technique to return high purity materials of EV batteries at the end of their life to be reused for new battery manufacture.<ins id=\"revive-0-3\" data-revive-zoneid=\"74\" data-revive-ct0=\"%c\" data-revive-id=\"6aafa29326b86ed2fe63762e441a303b\" data-revive-seq=\"3\" data-revive-loaded=\"1\"><\/ins><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Faraday Institution project on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries (ReLiB) at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham have solved a critical challenge in the recovery of materials used in electric vehicle batteries, which uses ultrasonic waves to separate out valuable material from the electrodes. It claims it is 100 times quicker, greener and leads to a higher purity of recovered materials relative to current separation methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_uA9MMjp-0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The research has been published in Green Chemistry and the team has applied for a patent for the technique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Current recycling methods for lithium-ion battery recycling typically feed end-of-life batteries into a shredder or high-temperature reactor. A complex set of physical and chemical processes are subsequently needed to produce useable materials streams of the lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper they contain. Such pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling routes are energy intensive and inefficient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If an alternate approach is taken and end-of-life batteries are disassembled rather than shredded there is the potential to recover more material, in a purer state, so recovering materials with greater value than current approaches. The disassembly of lithium-ion batteries has been shown to recover a high yield (around 80% of the original material) in a purer state than was possible using shredded material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">However, for disassembly to be used, battery cells, modules and packs must be designed for recycling so that cells can be disassembled, and their anodes and cathodes separated at the end of the battery\u2019s first life. Battery disassembly is currently carried out at a scale of 100,000 tonnes\/year in recycling facilities in the Far East. However, the majority of other battery manufacturers currently glue battery components together during manufacture for increased stability, but this makes them unsuitable for disassembly and high value recycling processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To ensure the environmental and economic benefits from EV batteries are fully realized, Faraday Institution researchers have been focused on the life cycle of the battery \u2013 from their first production to their re-use in secondary applications to their eventual recycling. One key stumbling block has been in materials segregation, that is how to remove and separate the critical materials \u2013 such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt \u2013 from used batteries in a fast, economical and environmentally-friendly way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The ReLiB team in Leicester and Birmingham devised a novel ultrasonic delamination technique that blasts the active materials from the electrodes leaving virgin aluminum or copper. This process proved highly effective in removing graphite and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides, commonly known as NMC. Materials recovered using the technique were found to have higher purity, and therefore higher value, than those recovered in conventional recycling approaches and are potentially easier to use in new electrode manufacture. The approach is fast and adapts technology in widespread use in the food preparation industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cFor the full value of battery technologies to be captured for the UK, we must focus on the entire life cycle \u2014 from the mining of critical materials to battery manufacture to recycling \u2014 to create a circular economy that is both sustainable for the planet and profitable for industry,\u201d commented Professor Pam Thomas, CEO, The Faraday Institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cThis effort to deliver commercial, societal and environment impact for the UK is showing great promise. It is imperative that academia, industry and government redouble their efforts to develop the technological, economic and legal infrastructure that would allow a UK EV battery recycling industry to become established to realize the full benefits of a decarbonized transport sector.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cThis novel technique works in the same way as a dentist\u2019s ultrasonic descaler, breaking the adhesive bonds between the coating layer and the substrate,\u201d comments Professor Andrew Abbott at the University of Leicester who leads the research. \u201cIt is likely that the initial use of the technology will use production scrap from battery manufacturing facilities as the feedstock and feed recycled material straight back into the battery production line, possibly at the same site. This could be a real step change in battery recycling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Current delamination recycling techniques use concentrated acids in a batch immersion process. The new ultrasonic technique is a continuous, feed process that uses water or dilute acids as the solvent so the technique is greener and less expensive to operate. It can delaminate 100 times more electrode material in a given time and volume than existing batch delamination techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Researchers are in initial discussions with several battery manufacturers and recycling companies to place a technology demonstrator at an industrial site in 2021, with a longer-term aim to license the technology. The research team at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham have tested the technology on the four most common battery types and find that it performs with the same efficiency in each case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Some automakers are realizing the importance of recycling considerations in product design as a necessity in creating a circular economy for battery raw materials. 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