Establishing feasibility of a novel industrial plant to recover critical metals from end-of-life EV batteries for re-entry into a circular battery supply chain

建立新型工厂的可行性，从报废电动汽车电池中回收关键金属，以重新进入循环电池供应链

• 批准号: 10031406
• 金额: $ 28.43万
• 依托单位: ALTILIUM METALS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: BEIS-Funded Programmes
• 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=10031406
• 关键词: Establishing; feasibility; novel; industrial; plant

Significant volumes of raw materials will be needed for an electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chain in the UK, but one major challenge is that indispensable battery metals such as cobalt and nickel are in short supply globally, with Russia being a leading source of nickel and cobalt, and China dominating the processing into market ready products, the current UK supply-chain is vulnerable to geopolitical events.Altilium Ltd have invented a novel, highly efficient process that extracts nickel, cobalt, and lithium from end-of-life electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries in a quality and format that can be directly reused in battery manufacture. The technology and its industry gold standard efficiency performance have been independently validated by the University of Plymouth and proven in plant operation on spent consumer lithium-ion batteries at our MEDET recycling site in Europe.This feasibility study will accelerate and support the investment decision regarding Altilium developing a new UK greenfield site capable of processing 10,000 MT of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, gigafactory scrap and electronic waste, enabling 4750 MT of critical cathode metals to be recovered and supplied back into the EV battery industry by 2025\. This site is the first of four planned to meet UK demand until 2050\.By 2030, we intend to have 2 sites operational, supporting 400 new high-value jobs and generating EBITDA of £183.4m. Critically, our facilities will help attract battery manufacturers to the UK (£9bn market opportunity), supporting the UK automotive industry (currently supporting 170,000 jobs).Furthermore, an EV battery recycling industry in the UK would lower the cost of EV battery production and decrease carbon emissions compared to the use of virgin cathode materials.

英国的电动汽车（EV）电池供应链需要大量原材料，但一个主要挑战是，钴和镍等不可或缺的电池金属在全球范围内供不应求，俄罗斯是镍和钴的主要来源，中国主导着市场就绪产品的加工，目前英国的供应链很容易受到地缘政治事件的影响。Altilium公司发明了一种新颖、高效的工艺，可以从报废的电动汽车锂离子电池中提取镍、钴和锂，其质量和形式可以直接用于电池制造。该技术及其行业金标准效率性能已由普利茅斯大学独立验证，并在欧洲MEDET回收基地的废消费锂离子电池工厂运行中得到验证。这项可行性研究将加速并支持有关Altilium开发一个新的英国绿地基地的投资决策，该基地能够处理10,000吨报废锂离子电池，超级工厂废料和电子废物，到2025年，4750吨关键阴极金属将被回收并供应给电动汽车电池行业。这是计划在2050年前满足英国需求的四个核电站中的第一个。到2030年，我们计划有两个工厂投入运营，支持400个新的高价值工作岗位，产生1.834亿英镑的EBITDA。至关重要的是，我们的设施将有助于吸引电池制造商到英国（90亿英镑的市场机会），支持英国汽车工业（目前支持17万个工作岗位）。此外，与使用原始正极材料相比，英国的电动汽车电池回收行业将降低电动汽车电池生产成本并减少碳排放。