China Nonferrous Metallurgy

With the vigorous development of small electronic equipment and new energy vehicle industry, the number of decommissioned lithium-ion batteries has increased year by year. The recycling of waste lithium-ion batteries has become an important strategic direction of the new energy industry. As a major producer and consumer of new energy vehicles in the world, enterprises related to the industrial chain have successively deployed lithium-ion battery recycling in response to the national strategy. Among them,lithium cobaltate is one of the most widely used and successful cathode materials, and its recycling process research and development has attracted the attention of researchers. Combined with the status-quo of lithium cobaltate cathode material industry, this paper analyzes the economic benefits and environmental friendliness of waste lithium cobaltate cathode materials treated by different processes, which can be a reference for the frontier layout of the enterprise.