{"id":25961,"date":"2022-10-05T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=25961"},"modified":"2022-11-08T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T10:02:12","slug":"true-2-materials-develop-innovative-battery-recycling-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/true-2-materials-develop-innovative-battery-recycling-technology\/25961\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Material Recovery: True 2 Materials develop innovative battery recycling technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

True 2 Materials<\/a> has developed a novel battery recycling process known as Total Material Recovery (TMR). TMR is entirely outside the borders of both the contemporary recycling techniques operating commercially today, and the known theoretical techniques, which are in development in laboratories around the globe.<\/h2>\n

Recovering cathodes as sulphates and anodes as damaged carbon is not the answer. Recovering battery-grade, usable anodes and cathodes (oxides) wins across all metrics.<\/p>\n

EV battery recycling methods<\/h3>\n

The worldwide search for a solution to enable us to directly recycle the used cathodes and anodes of electric vehicle<\/a> (EV) batteries back into new cells, with minimal processing, has been a long one. Today, the only methods of recycling both end-of-life batteries, and manufacturing scrap – which currently makes up almost all of the feedstock available – at scale, are pyrometallurgy (burning) or hydrometallurgy (acids) or some combination of the two.<\/p>\n

Greatly simplified, today batteries are shredded, burned, or dissolved, and then the valuable outputs are extracted one by one from the \u2018black mass\u2019 remaining.<\/p>\n

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Despite the claims of cutting-edge technique and investment-worthy uniqueness by modern recyclers, at their core these methods all have basically the same process charts, weaknesses, and inability to be improved much outside the margins. No matter how favourably you parse things, contemporary battery recycling methods:<\/p>\n