Liu-ye Sun, Bo-rui Liu, Tong Wu, Guan-ge Wang, Qing Huang, Yue-feng Su, and Feng Wu, Hydrometallurgical recycling of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries by reductive leaching with stannous chloride, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 28(2021), No. 6, pp. 991-1000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2115-z
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Liu-ye Sun, Bo-rui Liu, Tong Wu, Guan-ge Wang, Qing Huang, Yue-feng Su, and Feng Wu, Hydrometallurgical recycling of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries by reductive leaching with stannous chloride, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 28(2021), No. 6, pp. 991-1000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2115-z
Research Article

Hydrometallurgical recycling of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries by reductive leaching with stannous chloride

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    Qing Huang    E-mail: huangqing3121@sina.com

  • Received: 10 March 2020Revised: 16 May 2020Accepted: 8 June 2020Available online: 10 June 2020
  • The reductant is a critical factor in the hydrometallurgical recycling of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). There is limited information regarding the use of SnCl2 as a reductant with organic acid (maleic acid) for recovering valuable metals from spent LiCoO2 material. In this study, the leaching efficiencies of Li and Co with 1 mol·L−1 of maleic acid and 0.3 mol·L−1 of SnCl2 were found to be 98.67% and 97.5%, respectively, at 60°C and a reaction time of 40 min. We investigated the kinetics and thermodynamics of the leaching process in this study to better understand the mechanism of the leaching process. Based on a comparison with H2O2 with respect to leaching efficiency, the optimal leaching parameters, and the activation energy, we determined that it is feasible to replace H2O2 with SnCl2 as a leaching reductant in the leaching process. In addition, when SnCl2 is used in the acid-leaching process, Sn residue in the leachate may have a positive effect on the re-synthesis of nickel-rich cathode materials. Therefore, the results of this study provide a potential direction for the selection of reductants in the hydrometallurgical recovery of valuable metals from spent LIBs.

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