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USABC Awards WPI $1 Million for a Novel Recycling Process for Lithium-Ion Batteries Used in Electric
https://www.wpi.edu/news/20156/ywangbatt.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]USABC Awards WPI $1 Million for a Novel Recycling Process for Lithium-Ion Batteries Used in Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles[/font]
[font size=4]The program, directed by Yan Wang, will scale up a process that recovers cathode materials that can be reused in new batteries at a significant cost reduction.[/font]
[font size=3]The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors, has awarded a $1 million contract to a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to support further development and scale-up of a novel process for recycling lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and the production of new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) battery cells using the recovered cathode material.
The competitively bid contract award is 50 percent funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); the remaining balance will be funded by WPI and a battery manufacturer.
February 17, 2016
"Batteries are among the costliest components of electric and hybrid vehicles," said Yan Wang, director of WPI's Electrochemical Energy Laboratory and developer of the process. "If we can reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries through this process, while also recovering and reusing large amounts of materials that are currently being thrown away, we can offer a value-driven path towards improved industry sustainability."
The 24-month contract will enable WPI to demonstrate and scale up its recycling process, which overcomes a major hurdle that has impeded the wide-scale recycling of Li-ion batteries. Commercially produced Li-ion batteries use a variety of chemistries for their cathodes, which are the most expensive parts of the batteries, requiring recyclers to sort the batteries to avoid mixing incompatible formulations. This labor-intensive and expensive process is complicated by the difficulty of ascertaining the exact material used in a given battery.
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[font size=4]The program, directed by Yan Wang, will scale up a process that recovers cathode materials that can be reused in new batteries at a significant cost reduction.[/font]
[font size=3]The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors, has awarded a $1 million contract to a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to support further development and scale-up of a novel process for recycling lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and the production of new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) battery cells using the recovered cathode material.
The competitively bid contract award is 50 percent funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); the remaining balance will be funded by WPI and a battery manufacturer.
February 17, 2016
"Batteries are among the costliest components of electric and hybrid vehicles," said Yan Wang, director of WPI's Electrochemical Energy Laboratory and developer of the process. "If we can reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries through this process, while also recovering and reusing large amounts of materials that are currently being thrown away, we can offer a value-driven path towards improved industry sustainability."
The 24-month contract will enable WPI to demonstrate and scale up its recycling process, which overcomes a major hurdle that has impeded the wide-scale recycling of Li-ion batteries. Commercially produced Li-ion batteries use a variety of chemistries for their cathodes, which are the most expensive parts of the batteries, requiring recyclers to sort the batteries to avoid mixing incompatible formulations. This labor-intensive and expensive process is complicated by the difficulty of ascertaining the exact material used in a given battery.
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It's amazing how many batteries we go through in a year. 