CARTIF Projects
BATERURGIA
Research into advanced recycling technologies for obtaining strategic metals from electric vehicle batteries
Description
BATERURGIA aims to respond to the challenges posed by the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and to provide knowledge to solve the problems arising from the recovery and selective separation of critical metals to facilitate their use in the manufacture of new batteries or to replace conventional raw materials and introduce them into other production sectors as alternative raw materials. To this end, advanced technologies will be studied to enable selective dismantling to obtain black mass of higher quality and purity than is currently obtained, not only to facilitate subsequent physicochemical processes and reduce purification costs, but also to develop processes that are adapted to new batteries.
The BATERURGIA project will be carried out by a group made up of 5 large companies (SACYR CONCESIONES, SACYR PROYECTA, TUBACEX, FERROGLOBE and COLOROBBIA) and 3 SMEs (RECYCLIA, LITTLE ENERGY and COVELESS). The coordinator of the grouping will be SACYR CONCESIONES.
CARTIF participates as a subcontractor of the companies SACYR CONCESIONES, RECYCLIA and COVELESS.
This project has been subsidies by the CDTI, and has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Objectives
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- Making viable the processes of obtaining strategic metals from the recycling of enf-of-life EV batteries, increasing the percentage of metals recovered through a sustainable process from a economic and environmental point of view.
- Obtaining a system that facilitates the monitoring, traceability, classification, dismanting and characterisation of the batteries in order to obtain a quality black mass.
- Reduction of the cost associated with the battery recycling process by 20%.
- Increase in the quantity of materials recovered from batteries, through research into technologies that allow higher quality black masses to be obtained. Recovery of 70% of Li and 95% of Ni and Co that batteries contain before the recycling.
- Reduction of waste and emissions generated in the battery recycling process from dismantling to recovery.
Actions
- Analysis of the most suitable processes for the handling, classification and dismantling of batteries at the end of their useful life.
- Study of new technologies applicable to robotised dismantling from the battery to the cell and from the cell to the sheet.
- Research into the sensorisation and monitoring of batteries during transport to the dismantling or recycling plant.
- Research into the most suitable pre-treatment processes for obtaining and purifying the black mass.
- Analysis of the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of the chosen battery recycling process.
Expected results
- Automation and robotisation options for current battery dismantling processes.
- Definition of a safe collaborative working methodology between operator and robot to optimise the battery dismantling process.
- Development of a new sensor to be incorporated into the battery at source, which collects information on variables relevant to the safety and conservation of the batteries.
- Process of separating the black mass from the sheets that make up the cells, without crushing them.Thus achieving a purer black mass.
- Definition of a technically, economically and environmentally viable recycling process for EV batteries, applying the life cycle analysis (LCA) perspective.
R&D Line
- Research on metal recovery processes from batteries, brine, electronic and other waste streams and equipment.
Partners
Innovative and Science Missions 2022
01.IV.40
Total Budget: 3,599,420.64 €
CARTIF Budget: 565,000 €
CARTIF Financing: 565,000 €
Duration: 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2025
Responsible
Marta Gómez Rincón
Division of Agrifood and Processes
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