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

电动汽车（EV）有助于减少碳排放，并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180%，而这一年的新车销量是28年来最低的。如何处理不断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。废旧电池也是镍、钴和锂等金属的宝贵二次来源，这些金属供应稀缺。Altilitech LTD是一家重要的金属公司，专注于为清洁运输和回收提供低成本和可持续的供应解决方案。该公司开发了一种新的化学工艺，可以在电动汽车的使用寿命结束时将锂离子电池从电动汽车中回收。该过程已经在实验室规模的研究计划下与Pittouth大学合作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个月的工业研究计划，以设计和开发扩大工艺所需的工业工艺，并创建一个稳定的，可预测的回收工作流程，能够处理约1000吨的水。0.5 MT电池废料。在中试规模上建立该技术的技术可行性对我们证明英国电动汽车电池回收在技术上和商业上都是可行的至关重要，并为英国提供自己的关键金属来源。到2025年，每年将生产40- 50万吨电池，并将创造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.