The Library
Reclaimed and up‐cycled cathodes for lithium‐ion batteries
Tools
Tools
Tools
Gastol, Dominika, Marshall, Jean, Cooper, Elizabeth, Mitchell, Claire, Burnett, David, Song, Tengfei, Sommerville, Roberto, Middleton, Bethany J., Crozier, Mickey, Smith, Robert, Haig, Sam, McElroy, Con Robert, van Dijk, Nick, Croft, Paul, Goodship, Vannessa and Kendrick, Emma (2022) Reclaimed and up‐cycled cathodes for lithium‐ion batteries. Global Challenges, 6 (12). 2200046. doi:10.1002/gch2.202200046 ISSN 2056-6646.
|
PDF
WRAP-reclaimed-up‐cycled-cathodes-lithium‐ion-batteries-2022.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (2646Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202200046
Abstract
As electric vehicles become more widely used, there is a higher demand for lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) and hence a greater incentive to find better ways to recycle these at their end‐of‐life (EOL). This work focuses on the process of reclamation and re‐use of cathode material from LIBs. Black mass containing mixed LiMn2O4 and Ni0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 from a Nissan Leaf pouch cell are recovered via two different recycling routes, shredding or disassembly. The waste material stream purity is compared for both processes, less aluminium and copper impurities are present in the disassembled waste stream. The reclaimed black mass is further treated to reclaim the transition metals in a salt solution, Ni, Mn, Co ratios are adjusted in order to synthesize an upcycled cathode, LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 via a co‐precipitation method. The two reclamation processes (disassembly and shredding) are evaluated based on the purity of the reclaimed material, the performance of the remanufactured cell, and the energy required for the complete process. The electrochemical performance of recycled material is comparable to that of as‐manufactured cathode material, indicating no detrimental effect of purified recycled transition metal content. This research represents an important step toward scalable approaches to the recycling of EOL cathode material in LIBs.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Lithium ion batteries , Lithium ion batteries -- Recycling , Lithium ion batteries -- Materials | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Challenges | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2056-6646 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||||||
| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 2200046 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/gch2.202200046 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2022 | ||||||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
