Recovery of Lithium and Heavy Non-ferrous Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
摘要
The aim of this study is to find a procedure to recycleRecycle spent lithiumLithium-ion batteriesBattery containing lithiumLithium-cobaltCobalt oxide (LiCoO2), lithiumLithium-nickelNickel-cobaltCobalt oxide (LiNiCoO2), and/or lithiumLithium-nickelNickel-cobaltCobalt-aluminum oxide (LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O) as the cathode material, without the need to useAcid recycle acidAcid and/or costly reagents and without generating hazardous liquid waste. To this end, we developed a laboratory-scale, economical and environmentally advantageous, pyrometallurgical method which is able to efficiently extract lithiumLithium as lithiumLithium carbonate (Li2CO3), while, in parallel, the heavy, non-ferrousNon-ferrous 3d transition metalsMetals are recovered in the form of ingots.