Portable solar powered Electricity Supplies Using Recovered Batteries (PESURB)

每年，数以百万计的功能性可充电锂离子电池被丢弃。其中一些可以回收，以回收制造它们的材料，但这很昂贵，回收的价值很低。一种更好、更可持续的方法是识别那些剩余功能寿命的电池，并将它们用于新的应用。该项目正在开发一种工艺，通过该工艺，这些寿命结束的电池可以被覆盖、快速测试，并集成到便携式、低成本、轻便的太阳能电池充电电源单元中，这些电源单元可用于为手机充电和为低能耗照明供电。全球约有6亿人的手机在家中无法通电。为了给它们充电，他们经常不得不步行数小时到充电站将他们的手机连接到汽车电池充电器上；这是一种特权，因为有很高的充电费用。该项目开发的电源单元将采用循环经济的方式使用锂离子电池，为手机充电和低能耗照明应用提供低成本能源。

Millions of functional rechargeable lithium ion batteries are disposed of each year. Some of these are recycledto recover the materials they are made of, but this is expensive and the recovered value is low. A better, andmore sustainable approach, is to identify those batteries that have remaining functional lifetimes and to usethem in new applications. This project is developing a process whereby these end of life batteries can berecovered, rapidly tested, and integrated into portable, low cost, lightweight, solar cell rechargeable powersupply units that can be used to charge mobile phones and to power low energy lighting. There are around 600million people globally with mobile phones that have no access to electricity at home. To charge them, theyoften have to walk for many hours to charging stations to connect their phones to car battery-based chargers; aprivilege for which there are high charges. The power supply units developed in this project will provide lowcost energy for phone charging and low energy lighting applications, using a circular economic approach to thereuse of lithium ion batteries.