Development of new, innovative technologies for electric vehicle battery recycling & low carbon minerals recovery in the Tees Valley.

作为欧洲第二大电动汽车市场，英国将从2030年起禁止新的汽油和柴油汽车的销售，因此英国处于向电气化运输部门过渡的最前沿。然而，随着对生产电动汽车电池所需的关键原材料需求的不断增长以及对全球供应链的担忧，为了确保这些材料的稳定和可持续的国内供应，迫切需要工业规模的电池回收行业。2英国依赖于这些原材料的全球市场，这带来了许多挑战。国际供应链是复杂的，容易受到地缘政治事件的破坏，而环境，社会，和治理（ESG）因素也成为电动汽车行业日益关注的问题。伴随着这一挑战而来的是机遇-通过在英国发展关键电池矿物的循环经济，建立可持续和稳定的供应链。Altilium Metals开发了一种湿法冶金工艺，用于回收报废锂离子电池和超级工厂废料。这些有价值的材料以质量和形式回收，可以以最环保和最具成本效益的方式直接用于电池制造。与现有的火法冶金工艺不同，它可以回收锂和锰。该技术及其效率性能超过95%的阴极金属回收率已在实验室规模上得到独立验证和证明。第一个商业工厂预计将于2026年在提赛德投入运营，每年处理50，000吨（tpa）锂离子电池黑料，相当于每年约150，000辆电动汽车或每年10吉瓦时。这些战略性废物将被处理成30，000吨/年的阴极活性金属（CAM），并将被回收并直接供应给英国电动汽车供应链。这个回收项目将通过帮助满足支持英国电动汽车生产所需的关键金属需求，增强Teesside在电动汽车供应链中的作用。通过与Teesside大学的合作，Altilium Metals将探索可生产规模的、灵活的自动化电池分选和深度放电系统的设计，用于在Teesside工厂精炼之前处理EOL EV电池和生产“黑色物质”。这将实现商业规模的EOL电池的有效分类和安全深度放电，能够以具有成本效益的方式处理不断增长的电池废物。

As the second largest market for EVs in Europe and with the sale of new petrol and diesel cars banned from 2030, the UK is at the forefront of the transition to an electrified transport sector.However, with growing demand for the critical raw materials required for the production of EV batteries and concerns over global supply chains, an industrial scale battery recycling industry is urgently needed in order to help secure a stable and sustainable domestic supply of these materials.The UK is dependent on the global market for these raw materials, which presents a number of challenges. International supply chains are complex and vulnerable to disruption from geopolitical events, while environ­mental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are also becoming a growing concern for the EV industry.With this challenge comes an opportunity---to build a sustainable and stable supply chain by developing a circular economy for critical battery minerals here in the UK.Altilium Metals has developed a hydrometallurgical process for the recycling of EOL lithium-ion batteries and gigafactory scrap. These valuable materials are recovered in a quality and format that can be directly reused in battery manufacturing in the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective way. Unlike existing pyrometallurgical processes, it can recover the lithium and manganese.The technology and its efficiency performance of over 95% recovery of cathode metals have been independently validated and proven at bench scale.A first commercial plant is expected to be operational in Teesside by 2026, with the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of lithium-ion battery black mass, equivalent to approximately 150,000 EVs per year or 10 GWh/annum. This strategic waste will be processed to make 30,000 tpa cathode active metals (CAM) to be recovered and supplied back directly into a UK EV automotive supply chain.This recycling project will enhance Teesside's role in the EV supply chain by helping to meet the demand for critical metals needed to support the UK's production of EVs.Through this partnership with the University of Teesside, Altilium Metals will explore the design of production-scaleable, flexible automated battery sorting and deep-discharge systems, to be used in the processing of EOL EV batteries and production of "black mass", prior to refining at the Teesside plant. This will enable the efficient sorting and safe deep discharge of EOL batteries on a commercial scale, capable of handling the growing volume of battery waste in a cost-effective manner.