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Publication history: Received July 5, 2014
Accepted September 4, 2014

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The Separation and Recovery of Nickel and Lithium from the Sulfate Leach Liquor of Spent Lithium Ion Batteries using PC-88A

Viet Tu Nguyen^{1 2} Jae-chun Lee^{1 2†} Jinki Jeong² Byung-Su Kim² B. D. Pandey³

¹Resources Recycling, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Korea ²Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), 124 Gwahak-ro Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Korea ³Metal Extraction & Forming Division, CSIR - National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur 831007, India

jclee@kigam.re.kr

Korean Chemical Engineering Research, April 2015, 53(2), 137-144(8), 10.9713/kcer.2015.53.2.137 Epub 30 March 2015

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Abstract

The present paper deals with the extractive separation and selective recovery of nickel and lithium from the sulfate leachate of cathode scrap generated during the manufacture of LIBs. The conditions for extraction, scrubbing and stripping of nickel from lithium were optimized with an aqueous feed containing 2.54 kg·m-3 Ni and 4.82 kg·m-3 Li using PC-88A. Over 99.6% nickel was extracted with 0.15 kmol·m-3 PC-88A in two counter-current stages at O/A=1 and pH=6.5. Effective scrubbing Li from loaded organic was systematically studied with a dilute Na2CO3 solution (0.10_x000D_ kmol·m-3). The McCabe-Thiele diagram suggests two counter-current scrubbing stages are required at O/A=2/3 to yield lithium-scrubbing efficiency of 99.6%. The proposed process showed advantages of simplicity, and high purity (99.9%) nickel sulfate recovery along with lithium to ensure the complete recycling of the waste from LIBs manufacturing process.

Keywords

Lithium Ion Batteries Cathode Scrap High-purity Nickel Recycling Solvent Extraction

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