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Dismantlement of Spent Lithium Primary Batteries for Recycling  

Yoo, Kyoung-Keun (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kim, Myoung-Hwa (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Shin, Shun-Myung (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Yang, Dong-Hyo (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kang, Jin-Gu (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Sohn, Jeong-Soo (Minerals and Materials Processing Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
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Resources Recycling / v.16, no.4, 2007 , pp. 3-9 More about this Journal
Abstract
Dismantlement of lithium primary batteries without explosion is required to recycle the lithium primary batteries which could be exploded by heating too much or crushing. In the present study, the optimum discharging condition was investigated to dismantle the batteries without explosion. When the batteries were discharged with $0.5kmol{\cdot}m^{-3}$ sulfuric acid, the batteries became inert after 4 days at $35^{\circ}C$ and after 1 day at $50^{\circ}C$, respectively. This result shows that higher temperature accelerates inert of the batteries. Because loss of metals recycled increases when the batteries are discharged only with the sulfuric acid, discharging process using acid solution and water was newly proposed. When the batteries were discharged with water during 24 hours after discharging with $0.5kmol{\cdot}m^{-3}$ sulfuric acid during 6 hours, the batteries discharged were dismantled without explosion. Because decrease in loss of metals was accomplished by new process, the recycling process of the batteries could become economic by the 2-step discharging process.
Keywords
lithium primary battery; recycling; discharging process; recovery of metals;
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