Do you know the whole process of recycling lithium-ion batteries?

There's no denying that there are more and more electric cars and all kinds of energy storage devices, and they're still swiping away at a rate that's nearly doubling every year. At the same time, we are creating countless discarded batteries at the rate of a few small mountains per day. Let's dig in, minerals are abundant and strategic metal resources are scarce, such as lithium cobalt and nickel.

Today we're going to look at the entire process of recycling lithium-ion batteries. Step one, break down and pre-process. No, that could be a problem. The first step should be the complete discharge of recycled lithium-ion batteries, there are two types of discharge, physical discharge is short-circuit discharge, first cooled with liquid nitrogen at low temperatures, followed by perforation to force the discharge, chemical discharge is the use of conductive solutions, electric liberation of electrical energy, obviously the chemical method is low cost and can be industrialized on a large scale.

To be green and efficient, this electrolyte is the secret of every household. If it's not green, there are ways to get the electrode material in good conscience and then crush and sieve it. These are routine operations. Li-Cycle's technology can be directly mechanically crushed without discharging the material, and then the hydrometallurgical link will dissolve the electrode material to leach it out, so that all kinds of metals and chemicals enriched in it will go into the leaching solution in the form of ions.

Then we are the key to the business important link, the key to technological development, will be useful in the leachate, that is, the precious metals can be analyzed and separated and recycled, the method through a variety of forms, the eight immortals by the sea, each relying on the ability. Strong technology can do, lithium batteries more than 80 percent of these materials recovery, the industry as the first can do 100% recovery, is so strong in China, some of the problems of many people, that there is no concern about the students of this economic indicators, how low-cost how to come, resulting in the impact of a strange phenomenon, but instead of recycling lithium batteries this work process, resulting in greater pollution.

Such a more advanced production line can be extracted from the waste of lithium batteries more than 5000 tons of lithium, cobalt, copper, aluminum, graphite, iron, etc., environmental protection can be sent that is truly environmentally friendly, this is a "good" cycle.