recycling plant for lithium battery processing unit

With the growing demand for electric vehicles and energy storage, lithium battery recycling has become a key link in resource recycling. An efficient lithium battery recycling plant needs to be equipped with crushing and sorting equipment, hydrometallurgical equipment, waste gas and wastewater treatment systems, etc., to achieve automated disassembly and hazardous substance control.

The recycling process is divided into three steps: first, the waste batteries are discharged and disassembled to separate the shell, electrode materials, etc.; then, copper, aluminum and other metals are extracted through mechanical crushing and screening; finally, precious metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel are recovered using hydrometallurgical or pyrometallurgical technology.

The economic benefits are significant. Metals such as lithium and cobalt are expensive, and recycling can reduce dependence on imported raw materials. It is estimated that metals worth about US$5,000 can be extracted from each ton of waste lithium batteries. Combined with policy subsidies, recycling companies have considerable profit margins.

In terms of environmental protection, recycling can reduce heavy metal pollution and carbon emissions. Formal companies treat wastewater and waste gas through closed-loop treatment to avoid electrolyte and dust pollution, reducing the environmental load by more than 70% compared to original mining.

In terms of future trends, as the battery scrapping wave arrives, recycling technology will develop towards high efficiency and low carbon, such as biometallurgy and direct recycling processes. Policy promotion and industrial chain collaboration will accelerate industry standardization, and lithium battery recycling is expected to become a green industry worth hundreds of billions of yuan.

In summary, lithium battery recycling has both economic and ecological value and is an important part of sustainable development.