The Licovolt technology will be used to extract lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from spent battery material at a fraction of the cost and emissions of current method
Current battery recycling methods are both dirty and energy inefficient, and with the big global push towards electric vehicles in particular this is a problem in urgent need of a solution. Stepping up to solve it is UCD spin-out Licovolt, which has developed a novel patented compound and an associated process that radically reduces the energy required to extract critical and rare earths from black mass – the powder that results from battery recycling.
“What we’re doing is highly disruptive,” says Zahmel adds. “Our patented precursor material enables the critical materials extraction process to happen at a much lower temperature than existing methods. The result of this is a CO2 reduction by up to 70 per cent and our technology allows for a much cleaner and faster extraction of these precious rare earths from black mass material which is the ‘dust’ that comes post-recycling and crushing of lithium cobalt batteries.
and auto-manufacturers to support the circular economy and facilitate international policy and regulatory requirements.
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