About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Circular Metallurgy: Design, Technology, Application
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| Presentation Title |
Engineering Artificial Minerals for Advanced Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling |
| Author(s) |
Michael Fischlschweiger, Haojie Li, Sanchita Chakrabarty, Wojciech Kulozik |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Michael Fischlschweiger |
| Abstract Scope |
The increasing demand for lithium-ion battery (LIB) applications within a circular economy calls for advanced recycling strategies. Special focus is put on combined pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing, which is significant for recovering Ni, Co, Cu, Li, and Mn. Despite these advances, improving recycling and energy efficiency remains essential. This challenge is closely linked to the need to thoroughly understand the phase behavior of lithium-containing slags - complex multicomponent and multiphase systems - at various temperatures and compositions under mineral processing conditions. This is where the new approach, Engineered Artificial Minerals (EnAMs), comes in, enabling the design of scavenger compounds for recovering valuable elements. Combined computational and experimental frameworks for understanding and investigating the relationship of elemental composition, atmospheric conditions, and processing conditions are presented. Thereby, improvements in lithium recovery efficiencies in combined pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical LIB slag recycling processing routes are being discussed. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Recycling and Secondary Recovery, Modeling and Simulation, Solidification |