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  • Title: Environmental friendly leaching reagent for cobalt and lithium recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries.
    Author: Li L, Ge J, Chen R, Wu F, Chen S, Zhang X.
    Journal: Waste Manag; 2010 Dec; 30(12):2615-21. PubMed ID: 20817431.
    Abstract:
    We investigated an environmentally friendly leaching process for the recovery of cobalt and lithium from the cathode active materials of spent lithium-ion batteries. The easily degradable organic acid DL-malic acid (C(4)H(5)O(6)) was used as a leaching reagent. The structural, morphology of the cathode materials before and after leaching were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The amount of Co and Li present in the leachate was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS). Conditions for achieving a recovery of more than 90 wt.% Co and nearly 100 wt.% Li were determined experimentally by varying the concentrations of leachant, time and temperature of the reaction as well as the initial solid-to-liquid ratio. We found that hydrogen peroxide in a DL-malic acid solution is an effective reducing agent because it enhances the leaching efficiency. Leaching with 1.5M DL-malic acid, 2.0 vol.% hydrogen peroxide and a S:L of 20 g L(-1) in a batch extractor results in a highly efficient recovery of the metals within 40 min at 90 °C.
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