Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries Processing Methods and Envi
This book presents a state-of-the-art review of recent advances in the recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries. The topics covered include: introduction to the structure of lithium-ion batteries; development of battery-powered electric vehicles; potentia
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Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries Processing Methods and Environmental Impacts
Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
Liang An Editor
Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries Processing Methods and Environmental Impacts
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Editor Liang An Department of Mechanical Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China
ISBN 978-3-030-31833-8 ISBN 978-3-030-31834-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31834-5
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Preface
Renewable energy is the final solution to mitigate climate change resulted from the burning of fossil fuels that produces large quantities of greenhouse gases. Currently, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the most widely used batteries in portable devices, electric vehicles, and grid energy storage due to their high-energy and high-power densities, simple operation, and relatively long lifetime. Owing to the constant offers of upgrades in consumer electronics and rapid development of electric vehicles, gigantic amount of LIBs have been manufactured in the recent decades. Moreover, the ever-increasing need for electric vehicles will further accelerate the production of LIBs. Hence, predictably, we have to face serious disposal problems of considerable amount of spent LIBs in the near future if no appropriate recycling processes can be implemented. The impact of spent LIBs on the environment mainly involves two aspects. On the one hand, most of the cathode materials contain hazardous heavy metals (e.g., Co) and harmful organic electrolytes, which can cause serious environmental pollution. On the other hand, spent LIBs contain high-value metals, such as Li, Co, Ni, Cu,
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