PEM to Research Direct Recycling of Battery Materials
The Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) of RWTH Aachen University, which specializes in sustainability, has launched the three-year “RECLAIM” research project funded by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. The aim is to develop eco-friendly and resource-efficient battery recycling technologies. The main focus will be on recovering valuable battery active materials in order to significantly reduce the demand for primary resources in the future.
PEM Director Professor Achim Kampker, says:
Recycling promotes the establishment of a European value chain that reduces Europeʼs dependence on imported and often critical raw materials and increases resource efficiency,
To increase sustainability in battery cell production, methods of direct recycling are to be researched that enable efficient material recovery to be implemented and industrialized.
Techno-economic-ecological comparison
To this end, promising approaches to delamination from several partners are to be tested on a technical to pilot-line scale. The recovered material is then to be re-used in cell production.
PEMʼs project manager, Timon Elliger, says:
The various approaches will be compared with each other in order to decide on the basis of technical, economic, and ecological criteria under which circumstances and for which of the materials the processes are suitable for industrial use,
“RECLAIM” will be looking at different active materials and various binding systems in technically sensible combinations.
The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB will coordinate the project, with PEM, Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET) at the University of Münster, and the companies “cylib” and “No Canary” being involved as project partners. Furthermore, Otto Junker Solutions will act as an associated partner.
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