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Coupling the Recovery of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries and the Treatment of Phenol Wastewater: A “Treating Waste with Waste” Strategy

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2023
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  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
  • Usage
    117

Article Description

Recovery of spent lithium-ion batteries and treatment of phenol wastewater are both environmental and social issues. Herein, we propose a “treating waste with waste” strategy using phenol wastewater to enhance the leaching efficiency of valuable metals from spent cathode material. The leaching efficiency of Co and Li could reach up to 98% and 96% under the optimum condition, respectively, in the acid-leaching process. After precipitation, Co and Li could be recovered as Co(OH)2 and Li2CO3, and the precipitated Co(OH)2 was further calcined to generate Co3O4. Furthermore, the organic contaminants that remained in the waste leaching solution could be removed by a spent graphite-activing peroxymonosulfate (PMS) process. It was noteworthy that the total organic carbon (TOC) in the waste leaching solution could be removed using fewer PMS compared with the original phenol wastewater, owing to the preoxidation of phenol in the leaching process, further confirming the advantage of this “treating waste with waste” strategy.

Bibliographic Details

Siyuan Luo; Xuhui Zhu; Mengqi Gong; Ran Mo; Shun Yang

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; Spent lithium-ion batteries; phenol wastewater; valuable metals recovery; spent graphite; peroxymonosulfate

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