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

EVBR：高效锂离子电池回收工艺的开发和规模化

• 批准号: 10030111
• 金额: $ 44.34万
• 依托单位: ALTILITECH LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10030111
• 关键词: EVBR; Development; scale; up; highly

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.

电动汽车(EVS)通过减少与污染相关的疾病，帮助减少碳排放，并使英国城市更清洁、更健康。在新车销量28年来最低的一年里，2020年英国电动汽车销量增长了180%。如何应对不断增加的电池库存的挑战很快就会变得紧迫，以阻止电池最终进入垃圾填埋场。报废电池也是镍、钴和锂等金属的宝贵二次来源，这些金属供应短缺。Altilitech Ltd是一家关键的金属公司，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。它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回收锂离子电池。该工艺已经通过与普利茅斯大学合作的一项研究计划在实验室规模上得到了验证。作为开发工业规模回收工艺的下一步，Altilitech设计了一项为期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，并创建能够处理约500吨垃圾的稳定、可预测的回收工作流程。0.5公吨电池浪费。在中试规模上建立该技术的技术可行性对于我们证明在英国回收电动汽车电池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个每年加工10,000公吨电池的大型工厂的内部投资决定，并将在2025年前创造40-50个高技能工作岗位。