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EU funding (€9,283,175): FEASIBLE RECOVERY OF CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS THROUGH A NEW CIRCULAR ECOSYSTEM FOR A LI-ION BATTERY CROSS-VALUE CHAIN IN EUROPE Hor24 Jun 2022 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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FEASIBLE RECOVERY OF CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS THROUGH A NEW CIRCULAR ECOSYSTEM FOR A LI-ION BATTERY CROSS-VALUE CHAIN IN EUROPE

The negative environmental impacts results from the linear ‘take, make, dispose’ and dominant economic models of our time, traditionally adopted by decision-making of main stakeholders around mobility are changing thank to EV's irruption, but Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) are not yet green enough to reduce mobility footprint to lowest levels. Thus, recycling has to be developed to achieve higher efficiencies and recovery rates to reintroduce Critical Raw Materials from End-of-Life (EOL) LIBs. Recycling technology is still at the lab-scale due to the complex structure of EOL LIBs. Currently, pyro-metallurgy is the most applied method in the industry. Although this process does not need pre-treatment, its energy-wasting, the equipment investment is large and it will cause serious pollution. In response to these problems, many companies have developed hydrometallurgical processes, that can recover Li and Al with low energy consumption. However, it requires pre-treatment, leaching, purification and other steps, and it could be a long way. FREE4LIB aims to develop at TRL 5-6 technologies to achieve 6 new sustainable and efficient processes to recycle EOL LIBs (dismantling, pre-treatment and 4 materials recovery processes) delivering innovative recycling solutions to reach highly efficient materials recovery (metal oxides, metals and polymers) improving the supply of secondary resources at EU level. FREE4LIB also will deliver 3 processes aiming at metals and polymers re-using and electrode synthesis for re-manufacturing new LIBs, and it will study options to harness non-reusable elements. It will also deliver a Battery Passport (BP) methodology to improve processes traceability. Besides, 2 Open Platforms will be deployed: BP and Data-driven models for the process’s optimisation. At end, to validate and spread FREE4LIB: new LIBs will be assembled on battery packs and engagement activities with citizens, policymakers and battery stakeholder will be carried out, respectively.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
ACCUREC-RECYCLING GmbH €339,375
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas €663,610
Aimplas - Asociacion de Investigacion de Materiales Plasticos y Conexas €339,700
Alienoreu SPRL €215,625
AVL List GmbH €541,125
Erion Compliance Organization Scarl €349,375
Erion Energy €0.00
Fondazione Bruno Kessler €276,875
Fondazione Istituto SUI Trasporti E LA Logistica €93,750
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG e. V. €769,175
Fundacio Eurecat €1,040,688
Fundacio Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya €556,100
Fundacion Cartif €882,825
Kellen €370,228
L'Association des Fabricants Europeens d'Accumulateurs Automobiles Etindustriels - Eurobat €1,022.45
L'Urederra, Fundacion para El Desarrollo Tecnologico y Social €510,125
MOV'EO €201,000
Nesstec Enerji VE Yuzey Teknolojileri Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi €296,750
Politecnico Di Milano €230,000
Sakarya Universitesi €143,750
Sig de Raee y Pilas SL €280,758
Torrecid SA €359,125
Universitaet Graz €417,320
Watt4Ever €404,875

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101069890

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