Sustainable Recovery of Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Green Process

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3104-3113

  Chen, Xiangping ^a   Luo, Chuanbao ^a   Zhang, Jinxia ^a   Kong, Jiangrong ^a   Zhou, Tao ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Green process; Leaching; Metals; Precipitation; Recovery; Spent lithium ion batteries

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CITRIC ACID; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; LEACHING; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECOVERY;

GREEN PROCESS; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; OXIDATION MECHANISMS; REDUCING SUBSTANCES; SELECTIVE PRECIPITATION; SPENT LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84948947236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01000     Document Type: Article

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