Nano Technology for Battery Recycling, Remanufacturing, and Reusing

1st Edition - April 28, 2022
Editors: Siamak Farhad, Ram K. Gupta, Ghulam Yasin, Tuan Anh Nguyen
Language: English
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9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 1 3 4 - 4
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Nanotechnology for Battery Recycling, Remanufacturing, and Reusing explores how nanotechnology is currently being used in battery recycling, remanufacturing and reusing technologies to make them economically and environmentally feasible. The book shows how nanotechnology can be used to enhance and improve battery recycling, remanufacturing and reusing technologies, covering the fundamentals of battery recycling, remanufacturing and reusing technologies, the role of nanotechnology, the separation, regeneration and reuse of nanomaterials from battery waste, nano-enabled approaches for battery recycling, and nano-enabled approaches for battery remanufacturing and reusing.

This book will help researchers and engineers to better understand the role of nanotechnology in the field of battery recycling, remanufacturing and reusing. It will be an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who would like to learn more about how nanotechnology is being used to create new battery recycling processes.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Section 1. General and technical aspects
Chapter 1. Market batteries and their characteristics
1. Chemical battery
2. Physical battery
3. Current status of battery technology at home and abroad
Chapter 2. Available technologies for remanufacturing, repurposing, and recycling lithium-ion batteries: an introduction
1. Introduction
2. State-of-health estimation
3. Remanufacturing
4. Repurposing
5. Recycling
6. Extraction of materials
7. Challenges and future trends
8. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Nanotechnology and recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing battery
1. Introduction
2. Battery nanostructures
3. Processes for recovering and synthesizing nanomaterials
4. Nanotechnology for metal recovery from batteries
5. Synthesis of metallic nanoparticles and other materials
6. Future prospects
Chapter 4. Promising technologies under development for recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries: an introduction
1. Introduction
2. Ionic liquids
3. Supercritical fluids
4. Nanohydrometallurgy
5. Organic acids
6. Deep-eutectic solvents
7. Biohydrometallurgy
8. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Innovative strategies for recycling used batteries for brighter future
1. Introduction
2. Need for recycling batteries
3. Strategies for recycling battery components
4. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Battery recycling for sustainable future: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives
1. Introduction
2. Battery market
3. Battery recycling
4. Challenges and perspectives
5. Conclusion
Section 2. Battery recycling and separation processes
Chapter 7. Bio-inspired nanotechnology for easy-to-recycle lithium-ion batteries
1. Introduction
2. Combating interfacial delamination
3. Bio-inspired directional adhesives
4. Interface for easy-to-recycle batteries
5. Underlying mechanisms
6. Concluding remarks and future perspectives
Chapter 8. Materials recycling using pH/thermal-responsive materials
1. Introduction
2. Recyclable pH-responsive nanomaterials
3. Recyclable thermo-responsive nanomaterials
4. Future trends
5. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Pyrometallurgy-based applications in spent lithium-ion battery recycling
1. Introduction
2. Application of pyrometallurgy in pretreatment process
3. Pyrometallurgy technology
4. Summary and prospects
Chapter 10. Application of hydrometallurgy in spent lithium-ion battery recycling
1. Introduction
2. Leaching technology
3. Separation and extraction technologies
Chapter 11. Biohydrometallurgical recycling approaches for returning valuable metals to the battery production cycle
1. Introduction
2. Approaches for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries
3. Types of biohydrometallurgical methods
4. Microbes in bioleaching
5. Bioleaching mechanism
6. A brief summary of spent battery bioleaching
7. Reuse of valuable metals in battery production
8. Conclusion and perspectives
Chapter 12. Technologies for separating nanomaterials from spent lithium-ion batteries
1. Introduction
2. Pretreatment process
3. Separation of nanomaterials from the collector fluid
4. Separation of nanomaterials
Chapter 13. Separating battery nano/microelectrode active materials with the physical method
1. Introduction
2. Materials
3. Modeling
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Nomenclature
Abbreviations
Section 3. Recycling battery materials
Chapter 14. Recycling battery anode materials
1. Anode materials in lithium-ion batteries
2. The imperative of anode materials recycling
3. Graphite materials in lithium-ion batteries
4. Recycling methods for anode materials
5. Defects in industry recycling
6. Prospects and challenges
Chapter 15. Recycling battery cathode materials
1. Introduction
2. Approaches for recycling battery cathode materials
3. Challenges and perspectives
Chapter 16. Recycling battery metallic materials
1. Commercial batteries and recyclability of metallic materials
2. Technologies for metal recycling
3. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 17. Recycling battery casing materials
1. Introduction
2. Target
3. Structure of cell housings
4. Housing fraction and case disassembly
5. Generating the housing fraction by mechanical processing
6. Processing the housing fraction
7. Process flowchart
8. Summary
Section 4. Battery remanufacturing and reusing
Chapter 18. Regeneration technologies for electrode nanomaterials of recycled batteries
1. Introduction
2. Carbonaceous nanomaterials recycling
3. Metal nanomaterials recycling
4. Conclusions
Chapter 19. LIB industry waste valorization for battery production
1. Introduction
2. Waste characterization
3. Cobalt extraction by acid leaching
4. Selective separation of cobalt by solvent extraction from LiCoO2 leach liquor
5. Valorization through oxide synthesis
6. Process development
7. Conclusions
Chapter 20. Recycling lithium, cobalt, and nickel for return to the battery production cycle
1. Direct repair
2. Extraction of metal followed by material regeneration
Chapter 21. Effects of imperfect separation of recycled cathode active materials on remanufactured lithium-ion battery performance
1. Introduction
2. Brief summary of the mathematical model
3. Experiments
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 22. Mechanical and physical processes of battery recycling
1. Introduction
2. Lithium-ion batteries
3. Physical processing of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries
4. Process groups
5. Conclusion
Index

Siamak Farhad

Siamak Farhad is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at The University of Akron, Ohio, USA. His primary and secondary research fields are energy and measurement, with a focus on energy, both energy conversion and storage, with particular emphasis on batteries, fuel cells, and piezoelectrics, from nano/microstructure design to the cell, device and system design. His focus in the field of measurement is on new sensors, is interdisciplinary and linked to nanotechnology, electrochemistry, thermal science, and material science. His research is based on both modeling and experiment; the selected research topics are, recycling and regeneration of lithium-ion battery materials, optimization of electrodes nano/microstructure for lithium battery, ceramic solid-state lithium battery, and piezoelectric materials for sensor and energy harvester.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, Ohio, USA

Ram K. Gupta

Ram K. Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, USA. His research interests include green energy production and storage using conducting polymers, 2D materials, nanostructured materials and composites, polymers from renewable resources for industrial applications, polymer recycling for sustainable future, bio-compatible nanofibers and thin films for tissue regeneration, scaffolds, bio-degradable metallic implants, and antibacterial applications.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas Polymer Research Center, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USA

Ghulam Yasin

Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.

Affiliations and expertise

Researcher, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials and nanotechnology for corrosion and materials integrity in transportation systems. His research activities include smart coatings, conducting polymers, corrosion and protection of metals/concrete, antibacterial materials, and advanced nanomaterials.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam