Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
by jacquesm on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:37PM
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The majority of Lithium-Ion batteries are spot welded rather than soldered (soldering injects a lot of heat), which makes recycling battery packs a rather time consuming and annoying job. The best is probably to grind them up and then to create a sludge and do a sort by centrifuge or some other bulk method of processing the materials.
A typical Lithium-Ion cell contains Aluminum, steel, possibly a protection circuit (fibreglass, electronics components), carbon, copper, an electrolyte with lithium in solution and quite probably other elements besides.
A typical Lithium-Ion cell contains Aluminum, steel, possibly a protection circuit (fibreglass, electronics components), carbon, copper, an electrolyte with lithium in solution and quite probably other elements besides.