Journal
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2021.102323
Keywords
Li-ion battery; Voltage recovery; Voltage relaxation; Voltage rebound; Discharge; Recycling
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Funding
- WELES project from Aalto University
- Academy of Finland [326346]
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The demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is rapidly increasing due to electric transportation, leading to efforts to enhance battery material recycling. More attention is needed on discharging strategies for LIBs to address safety concerns and ensure efficient recycling.
The demand of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is exponentially increasing, largely due to the ongoing transition towards electric transportation. To support the raw material supply for LIB manufacturing, there are significant ongoing efforts to recycle battery materials. Nevertheless, end-of-life LIBs entering recycling processes may still contain remnant energy, representing a potential hazard during handling and processing. Despite the urgency to improve LIB recycling, there is a lack of serious discussion in the literature regarding discharging strategies for LIBs. The electrochemical discharge using aqueous salt solutions route for example, has been widely mentioned without proper evidence of its usefulness. Among the discharge phenomena so far overlooked is the voltage recovery effect of batteries (a.k.a. voltage rebound/relaxation), where battery power appears to spontaneously surge, even after readings of full discharge in a circuit. In this work, a systematic study on the behaviour of LIBs during discharge in aqueous salt solutions is presented to better understand this unit process, addressing the challenges to fully drain energy from spent batteries prior to recycling. We demonstrate that the voltage recovery effect creates false readings for the battery charge level that represent risks during processing. If electrochemical discharge is employed, we present a methodology to decrease open circuit voltage in aqueous salt solution to 2.0 V, suitable for mechanical processing.
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