Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies
The use of lithium-ion batteries in portable electronic devices and electric vehicles has become well-established, and battery demand is rapidly increasing annually. While technological innovations in electrode materials and battery performance have been pursued, the environmental threats and resour...
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| description | The use of lithium-ion batteries in portable electronic devices and electric vehicles has become well-established, and battery demand is rapidly increasing annually. While technological innovations in electrode materials and battery performance have been pursued, the environmental threats and resource wastage posed by the resulting surge in used batteries have been overlooked. Spent batteries are technically inoperable but contain excess metal inside the structure, making recycling essential for environmental protection and recovery of scarce resources. The battery recycling industry has gradually emerged under the influence of government implementation and ecological protection trends. However, the annual recycling volume is still insufficient compared to the output volume of used batteries. Therefore, more recycling plants and advanced technologies are imperative to improve recycling efficiency. This article summarizes pretreatment, pyrometallurgical, and hydrometallurgical processes and technologies in three major parts, analyzes their applicability and environmental friendliness using industrial examples, highlights their technical shortcomings and problems, and emphasizes the bright future of battery recycling. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6fd4776be6a14a8aafc31ea174f0d39d2025-01-22T05:44:25ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.ChemPhysMater2772-57152025-01-01413047Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologiesZiwei Tong0Mingyue Wang1Zhongchao Bai2Huijun Li3Nana Wang4Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2500, AustraliaInstitute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2500, AustraliaInstitute of Energy Materials Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, ChinaSchool of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Corresponding authors.Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia; Corresponding authors.The use of lithium-ion batteries in portable electronic devices and electric vehicles has become well-established, and battery demand is rapidly increasing annually. While technological innovations in electrode materials and battery performance have been pursued, the environmental threats and resource wastage posed by the resulting surge in used batteries have been overlooked. Spent batteries are technically inoperable but contain excess metal inside the structure, making recycling essential for environmental protection and recovery of scarce resources. The battery recycling industry has gradually emerged under the influence of government implementation and ecological protection trends. However, the annual recycling volume is still insufficient compared to the output volume of used batteries. Therefore, more recycling plants and advanced technologies are imperative to improve recycling efficiency. This article summarizes pretreatment, pyrometallurgical, and hydrometallurgical processes and technologies in three major parts, analyzes their applicability and environmental friendliness using industrial examples, highlights their technical shortcomings and problems, and emphasizes the bright future of battery recycling.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772571524000317Spent lithium-ion batteriesRecycling processPyrometallurgyHydrometallurgyMetal recovery |
| spellingShingle | Ziwei Tong Mingyue Wang Zhongchao Bai Huijun Li Nana Wang Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies ChemPhysMater Spent lithium-ion batteries Recycling process Pyrometallurgy Hydrometallurgy Metal recovery |
| title | Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies |
| title_full | Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies |
| title_fullStr | Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies |
| title_short | Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies |
| title_sort | advances in lithium ion battery recycling strategies pathways and technologies |
| topic | Spent lithium-ion batteries Recycling process Pyrometallurgy Hydrometallurgy Metal recovery |
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