Recovery and Regeneration of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries From New Energy Vehicles

Qing Zhao; Lv Hu; Wenjie Li; Chengjun Liu; Maofa Jiang; Junjie Shi

doi:10.3389/fchem.2020.00807

Recovery and Regeneration of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries From New Energy Vehicles

Front Chem. 2020 Oct 29:8:807. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00807. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Qing Zhao^{1

2}, Lv Hu^{2

3}, Wenjie Li^{1

2}, Chengjun Liu^{1

2}, Maofa Jiang^{1

2}, Junjie Shi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
² School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
³ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Abstract

It is of great economic, environmental and social benefit to discover harmless treatment and resource utilization options for spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which contain a large proportion of valuable metal elements (e.g., Li, Ni, Co, Mn, Cu, and Al) and poisonous chemicals (e.g., lithium hexafluorophosphate and polyvinylidene fluoride). The present work summarized the leading technologies and hot issues in the disposal of spent LIBs from new energy vehicles. Moreover, development of the trend of innovative technologies for the recycling of spent LIBs is recommended.

Keywords: cascade treatment; cathode and anode electrode; economic; recovery and regeneration; spent lithium-ion batteries.

Publication types

Review