Singa - Development of highly-efficient hydrometallurgical recycling process to support Li-Ion battery recycling in UK and Singapore

**新加坡-开发高效湿法冶金回收工艺，支持英国和新加坡的锂离子电池回收**Altilitech发明了一种新型湿法冶金工艺，可以从黑色物质（报废电动汽车锂离子电池碎片）中提取镍、钴和锂，其质量/格式可直接用于电池制造。在独立验证了我们使用单一电池化学物质mc111的黑色物质的高效回收工艺之后，该项目联盟现在将设计、开发和试验相关工艺，以实现高价值材料的回收，包括关键金属，跨越一系列电池化学物质，因为黑色物质的成分在不同的OEM和/或应用中非常多样化。在为期24个月的工业研究期间，Altilitech的英国研发设施将处理多个典型的东南亚供应链黑色样品。黑色材料将由KGS（新加坡合作伙伴）提供，作为该项目的一部分，KGS将设计和委托一种创新的机械工艺，将废锂离子电池分解成铝、铜和黑色材料。知识交流将被分享，特别侧重于黑色质量化学物质的材料特征，回收材料的数量和质量，以及确定的工艺改进。该项目最后将对7,000吨的新加坡工厂（KGS和Altiltech合资企业）进行可行性研究，该工厂将大规模地提供KGS的前端和Altiltech的后端回收流程，即完整的端到端电池回收。

**Singa - Development of highly-efficient hydrometallurgical recycling process to support Li-Ion battery recycling in UK and Singapore**Altilitech has invented a novel hydrometallurgical process that extracts nickel, cobalt, and lithium from black mass (shredded end-of-life electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries) in a quality/format that can be directly reused in battery manufacture.Having independently validated our highly-efficient, recycling process using black mass from a single battery chemistry-MC111, the project consortium will now design, develop, and trial the associated processes to enable high value material recovery, including critical metals, across a range of battery chemistries, as composition of black mass is very diversified from one OEM and/or application to another.During the 24-month industrial research, Altilitech's UK R&D-facility will process multiple black mass samples typical of a Southeast Asia supply chain. The black mass will be supplied from KGS (Singapore Partner), which, as part of this project, will design and commission an innovative mechanical process to break down spent lithium-ion batteries into materials such as aluminium, copper, and black mass.Knowledge exchange will be shared, with particular focus on material characterisation of the black mass chemistries, the volume and quality of recovered material, and identified process improvements. The project will conclude with a feasibility study into a 7,000 MT Singapore Plant (KGS and Altilitech Joint Venture) that will house, at-scale, KGS' front-end and Altiltech's back-end recycling processes, i.e. full end-to-end battery recycling.