Journal
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages 70-78Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.08.031
Keywords
End-of-life; Electric vehicle; Retired battery; Waste generation; Waste management
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Funding
- Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China [19GLC014]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41901243, 41971259]
- Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China [19KJB610018]
- Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China [2019SJA0157]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0502801]
- Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of NUIST [2019r020]
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The study estimated the waste of end-of-life EV batteries in China and highlighted the economic benefits of battery recycling for material recovery and energy storage. It also emphasized the spatial mismatch of energy storage capacity supply and demand between eastern and western regions in China.
A better understanding of the waste of end-of-life batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) is a basis for their sustainable management. This study aims to estimate the waste of end-of-life EV batteries during 2006-2040 in China and to analyze the opportunities and challenges of subsequent utilization, based on a developed numerical model, real market data, and elaborately developed scenarios. The result shows that end-of-life batteries would increase from 0.1 to 7.8 thousand tons during 2012-2018, and then to 1500-3300 thousand tons in 2040. Of the waste streams, around 50% are estimated to be metal materials, representing great opportunities for battery recycling for material recovery. Economically, battery recycling for energy storage is estimated to create more economic benefits compared with that for material recovery solely (147.8 versus 76.9 billion US dollars). However, the supply of end-of-life batteries can hardly meet the demand for renewable energy storage in the near future, and a spatial mismatch of the supply and demand of energy storage capacity exists between the eastern and western regions in China. Accordingly, this study highlights national coordination for the rational layout of the collection, disassembly, and remanufacture facilities for the second use of end-of-life EV batteries in China.
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