Umicore: Battery recycling can provide sustainable cobalt, lithium

• Autores: Charlotte Radford
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 600, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Marzo)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Mitigating measures, such as recycling and substitution are essential for sustainable battery supply, Umicore said at the Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference last month.Battery recycling is a viable way to ensure the sustainability of supplies of lithium and cobalt, but scalability, collaboration and primary raw material prices will all be key to its success, according to Christian Hagelüken, Umicore’s director of EU government affairs. Flexibility of recycling technology will also be key to closing the supply loop while battery producers refine their chemistries, and increase the ratio of nickel to cobalt in their packs as part of their cost-controlling drive. [...]we refer to our operations as being on a semi-industrial scale,” Hagelüken told delegates in Mainz.Umicore’s battery recycling process produces copper, cobalt and nickel alloys, and lithium from lithium slag, all of which can be reused in new lithium-ion battery production.