EVBR: Development and scale-up of a highly efficient lithium-ion battery recycling process

电动汽车有助于减少碳排放，通过减少与污染有关的疾病，使英国城市更清洁、更健康。2020年，英国电动汽车销量增长了180%，而这一年的新车销量是28年来最低的。如何处理日益增加的电池库存的挑战将很快变得紧迫，以阻止电池最终进入垃圾填埋场。报废电池还可以作为镍、钴和锂等金属的宝贵二次来源，这些金属供不应求。Altilitech LTD是一家专注于为清洁运输和回收提供低成本和可持续供应解决方案的关键金属公司。该公司开发了一种新的化学工艺，可以在电动汽车使用寿命结束时回收锂离子电池。在与普利茅斯大学合作的一项研究项目中，该工艺已经在实验室规模上得到了验证。作为工业规模回收工艺发展的下一步，Altilitech设计了一个为期12个月的工业研究项目，以设计和开发扩大该工艺所需的工业工艺，并创建一个稳定、可预测的回收工作流程，能够处理大约100万美元的废料。0.5 MT电池浪费。在试点规模上建立技术可行性对我们证明英国电动汽车电池回收在技术和商业上都是可行的，并为英国提供自己的关键金属来源至关重要。一个成功的项目将触发英国第一家大型工厂的内部投资决策，该工厂每年处理10,000吨电池，到2025年将创造40-50个高技能工作岗位。

Electric vehicles (EVs) help reduce carbon emissions and make UK cities cleaner and healthier by reducing pollution-related illnesses. The growth of electric vehicle sales in the UK in 2020 was up 180% in a year when new car sales were the lowest for 28 years.The challenge of how to deal with an increasing stockpile of batteries will soon become pressing to stop batteries ending up in landfill sites. End-of-life batteries also serve as a valuable secondary source of metals such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium, which are in scare supply.Altilitech LTD is a critical metals company focused on providing low-cost and sustainable supply solutions for clean transportation and recycling. It has developed a new chemical process that recycles lithium ion batteries from electric vehicles at the end of their useful life. The process has already been proven at the laboratory scale under a research program in partnership with the University of PlymouthAs the next step in the development of an industrial-scale recycling process, Altilitech have designed a 12 month program of Industrial Research to design and develop the industrial processes required to scale-up the process and create a stable, predictable recycling workflow capable of processing approx. 0.5 MT battery waste. Establishing technical feasibility of the technology at pilot scale is critical to us demonstrating EV battery recycling in the UK is both technically and commercial viable and provide the UK its own source of critical metals.A successful project will trigger the internal investment decision for the first large-scale plant in the UK processing 10,000 MT of batteries per year and will create 40-50 high skilled jobs by 2025.