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Hydrometallurgical Processing and Thermal Treatment of Active Materials

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Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries

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In this chapter, electrodes containing the cathode material Li[Ni0.33Co0.33Mn0.33]O2 (NCM) were recycled in order to test a newly developed recycling concept which is aiming towards commercial application. The possibility of graphite recovery from spent LIBs by means of three different treatment methods is demonstrated.

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    Sergej Rothermel, Steffen Krüger, Martin Winter & Sascha Nowak

  2. Helmholtz-Institute Münster (HI MS), Forschungszentrum Jülich, IEK-12, Münster, Germany

    Martin Winter

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Rothermel, S., Krüger, S., Winter, M., Nowak, S. (2018). Hydrometallurgical Processing and Thermal Treatment of Active Materials. In: Kwade, A., Diekmann, J. (eds) Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70572-9_13

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