Lithium and Graphite Recovery from Lithium-Ion Batteries (LaGReLiB)

从锂离子电池中回收锂和石墨 (LaGReLiB)

• 批准号: 81553
• 金额: $ 7.62万
• 依托单位: MATERIALS PROCESSING INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=81553
• 关键词: Lithium; Graphite; Recovery; Ion; Batteries

This project will deliver technology capable of the full recycling of lithium-ion batteries; currently this is unavailable due to lithium and graphite losses. The successful project will put the UK at the forefront of lithium-ion battery recycling. The current estimated usage of lithium-ion batteries for the automotive industry is 21 million by 2030 globally, including up to 2 million in the UK; IMF predicts 90% electric vehicles by 2042 (higher than current Department of Transport predictions). The UK has no lithium-ion battery recycling facilities, with batteries exported to Europe at great cost in terms of miles traveled (fuel, carbon emissions, time), jobs and special transport requirements (lithium batteries are classified under UN category 9 as dangerous goods); also with question marks on the usability of European facilities post Brexit. Successful implementation of the project will decrease greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs in the UK recycling sector. The plant will be designed to be flexible for future battery developments, not only lithium-ion but others, enabling the continued evolution of recycling technology. The built-in flexibility of the pilot plant could be exploited to optimise other hydrometallurgy processes, (e.g. primary extraction, WEEE recycling, materials recovery from legacy sites, Zinc recovery from steelmaking sludge). The Materials Processing Institute is ideally placed to hold this facility due to it open access research provisions. With no known hydrometallurgy pilot plant within the UK this will be showcase development in hydrometallurgy, creating a UK wide facility that provides return on investment for many years after the project has been completed. This project will be joined by Inprotec Ltd and Cornish Lithium Ltd. Inprotec will help the integration into the pyrometallurgy routes of the remaining materials, helping with pilot plant specification and technology development, trials melts will be carried out to confirm the full recycling process route. Cornish Lithium will collaborate over hydrometallurgy techniques, pilot plant specification and scale up studies on the pilot plant; the knowledge gained from the pilot plant studies is expected to help expedite commercial production of lithium from UK primary sources via environmentally responsible production techniques. By applying these innovations to lithium-ion battery recycling and lithium primary extraction, the UK will develop both recycling and primary extraction industries, securing lithium supplies for the automotive sector and their jobs, as well as modernising the UK recycling industry creating jobs and accelerate the growth in the UK lithium extraction industry and the associated jobs.

该项目将提供能够完全回收锂离子电池的技术;由于锂和石墨的损失，目前还无法实现。该项目的成功将使英国处于锂离子电池回收的最前沿。目前估计到2030年全球汽车行业锂离子电池的使用量为2100万，其中英国高达200万;国际货币基金组织预测到2042年电动汽车将达到90%（高于目前交通部的预测）。英国没有锂离子电池回收设施，出口到欧洲的电池在行驶里程（燃料，碳排放，时间），工作和特殊运输要求（锂电池被归类为联合国第9类危险品）方面的成本很高;英国脱欧后欧洲设施的可用性也存在疑问。该项目的成功实施将减少温室气体排放，并在英国回收行业创造就业机会。该工厂的设计将灵活适应未来的电池开发，不仅是锂离子电池，还包括其他电池，使回收技术能够持续发展。中试工厂的内在灵活性可用于优化其他湿法冶金工艺（例如，初级提取、废物回收、遗留场地的材料回收、炼钢污泥中的锌回收）。材料加工研究所是理想的位置，以保持这一设施，由于它的开放获取研究规定。由于在英国没有已知的湿法冶金试验厂，这将是湿法冶金的展示性发展，创造一个英国范围内的设施，在项目完成后多年提供投资回报。该项目将由Inprotec有限公司和康沃尔语锂有限公司加入。Inprotec将帮助将剩余材料整合到火法冶金路线中，帮助进行中试工厂规范和技术开发，将进行熔化试验以确认完整的回收工艺路线。康沃尔语锂将在湿法冶金技术、中试工厂规范和中试工厂的规模扩大研究方面进行合作;从中试工厂研究中获得的知识预计将有助于通过对环境负责的生产技术加快英国主要来源的锂的商业化生产。通过将这些创新应用于锂离子电池回收和锂一次提取，英国将发展回收和一次提取行业，确保汽车行业的锂供应及其就业机会，并使英国回收行业现代化，创造就业机会，加速英国锂提取行业和相关就业机会的增长。