Feasibility of Domestic Production of Graphite Anode Material for EV-Batteries

在目前的形势下，英国电动汽车电池生产商将完全依赖中国的阳极材料供应。Greenroc打算改变这一现状，为英国电池和电动汽车行业开发石墨阳极材料的国内生产，而不需要中国公司的参与或在生产过程中的投资。这种生产的原料是从Greenroc位于南格陵兰的世界级存款中负责任地开采的石墨。可行性研究将提供天然石墨薄片加工成石墨阳极材料的基本原理，包括德国公司制造的新型创新阳极加工装置，并将该装置与中国制造的当前最先进的标准加工装置进行比较。能源转型的一个关键方面是从柴油和汽油驱动的汽车转向电动汽车（EV）。商用电动汽车由电动汽车电池供电，主要是锂离子电池和磷酸铁锂电池技术。这些电池含有至少20重量%的石墨作为阳极材料。目前，电动汽车电池制造商使用的所有石墨负极材料都是在中国加工和生产的，而不考虑石墨精矿前体的来源。除了与欧洲电池制造商过度依赖中国生产相关的固有供应风险外，将石墨精矿从海外运往中国以及随后将石墨阳极材料从中国运往欧洲的电池工厂也会产生大量的二氧化碳排放量，这涉及长达70天的海上运输。Greenroc的Amitsoq石墨存款位于南格陵兰岛，距离英国港口只有四到五天的运输时间。鉴于Amitsoq石墨存款的规模和质量，Greenroc有雄心生产最高质量的石墨阳极材料，数量可能超过英国电动汽车电池工厂的需求，因此反过来可以提供重要的出口机会。

With today's situation British electric vehicle battery producers will be fully dependent on supply of anode material from China. Greenroc intends to change this by developing domestic production of graphite anode material for the British battery and electric car industry without involvement of Chinese companies or investments during production. The feed for such production is responsibly mined graphite from Greenroc's own world-class deposit in South Greenland. The Feasibility Study will provide fundamentals of the processing of natural graphite flakes to graphite anode material including a new innovative anode processing unit manufactured by German companies and compare such unit with current state-of-the-art standard processing unit of Chinese manufacturing.A key aspect in the energy transition is the shift from diesel and gasoline-driven vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Commercial EVs are powered by EV-batteries, predominantly technology of Li-ion and Li-Iron-Phosphate batteries. These batteries contain at least 20% by weight of graphite as anode material. Presently all the graphite anode materialused by EV battery manufacturers is processed and produced in China, disregarding the origin of the graphite concentrate precursor. Aside from the inherited supply risk associated with European battery manufacturers being overly dependent on Chinese production, there is a large CO2 footprint associated with the shipping of graphite concentrate from overseas to China and the subsequent shipping of the graphite anode material from China to battery factories in Europe, involving up to 70 days at sea. Greenroc's Amitsoq graphite deposit is located in South Greenland only four to five days of shipping time from UK ports.Given the size and quality of the Amitsoq graphite deposit, Greenroc has the ambition to produce the highest quality graphite anode material in quantities that may exceed UK EV battery factory needs and therefore in turn could provide significant export opportunities.