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Extraction of Nickel from Recycled Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Abstract

A series of operations have been developed to separate and recover individual critical metals from the end-of life lithium-ion batteries (LIB) based on their electrochemical and chemical properties. The black mass from waste LIBs contained Ni, Co, Li, and Mn, as well as contaminates such as Al, Fe and Cu. This paper highlights the leaching of metals and the recovery of Ni as part of a comprehensive recovery scheme. The electrochemical leach successfully dissolved over 97% of these metals into leachate and deposited over 98% of Cu onto cathode. The produced leachate was mildly acidic which could be used directly for Ni extraction through ion-exchange. Purity of the Ni-rich product was over 99%, and the precipitated NiSO4 powder possessed a higher Ni purity at 99.8%. Through these operations, we have successfully developed a feasible and flexible approach in recovery of critical materials and high purity metal salts from recycled LIBs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationREWAS 2022
Subtitle of host publicationDeveloping Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles
EditorsAdamantia Lazou, Katrin Daehn, Camille Fleuriault, Mertol Gökelma, Elsa Olivetti, Christina Meskers
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages163-172
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030925628
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event7th Installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition focuses on developing tomorrow’s technical cycles, 2022 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: Feb 27 2022Mar 3 2022

Publication series

NameMinerals, Metals and Materials Series
ISSN (Print)2367-1181
ISSN (Electronic)2367-1696

Conference

Conference7th Installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition focuses on developing tomorrow’s technical cycles, 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim
Period02/27/2203/3/22

Keywords

  • Electrochemical leaching
  • Ion-exchange
  • Ni extraction
  • Waste lithium-ion batteries

INL Publication Number

  • INL/CON-21-63271
  • 118557

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