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Plenty of valuable metals, such as cobalt, nickel, copper, manganese and lithium, are present in spent lithium-ion batteries. A novel smelting reduction process based on MnO-SiO2-Al2O3 slag system for spent lithium ion batteries is developed, using pyrolusite ore as the major flux. And Co-Ni-Cu-Fe alloy and manganese-rich slag contained lithium are obtained. The results show that it is reasonable to control MnO/SiO2 ratio in the range of 2.05-3.23 (w/w) and Al2O3 content in 19.23-26.32wt.%, while the MnO and Li2O contents in the manganese-rich slag can reach 47.03 wt.% and 2.63 wt.%, respectively. In the following leaching experiments of the manganese-rich slag by sulphuric acid solution, the recovery efficiency of manganese and lithium can reach up to 79.86% and 94.85%, respectively. Compared with the conventional hydro-pyrometallurgical process of spent lithium-ion batteries, the present can preferably recover Mn and Li besides Co, Ni and Cu.
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Guoxing, R. et al. (2016). Recovery of Valuable Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries by Smelting Reduction Process Based on MnO-SiO2-Al2O3 Slag System. In: Reddy, R.G., Chaubal, P., Pistorius, P.C., Pal, U. (eds) Advances in Molten Slags, Fluxes, and Salts: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48769-4_22
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