Awarded the Recobats project
14 de January de 2025
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15 de January de 2025SUMMARY
Development of a comprehensive battery recycling strategy
- Funding: CDTI
- Call: Transmisiones 2024
- Project code: MIG-2024054
- Budget: 4,496,094.00 €
- Period: January 2025– December 2028
OBJECTIVE
The overall objective of RECOBATs is to obtain a comprehensive and versatile strategy for the second life and recycling of lithium-ion batteries for electromobility at the end of their useful life, covering the research of technologies in the different stages of the process; from logistics and safety in transportation, deactivation, automatic disassembly, cell condition diagnosis, as well as regeneration in new batteries and direct recycling, through selective separation for the recovery of cathode, anode, copper and aluminum, and indirect recycling from the black mass for the recovery of strategic materials and graphite in adequate purity to give it a second life through biohydrometallurgy, supercritical fluids and purification technologies.
TIMELINE
The project, initiated in January 2025, is set to present its final result in December 2028
2025 - 2028MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT
Of end-of-life batteries.2025 - 2028LIFE EXTENSION AND RECYCLING
Of the useful life of the batteries and recycling.2025 - 2028RECYCLING STRATEGIES
Modelling and visualization of recycling strategies.2026-2028FINAL APPLICATIONS
Research on the application of recovered materials in final applications.
ROLE OF APRIA
Combination of membrane technology and electrochemistry
Apria's role in the RECOBATS project is the integration, scale-up and validation of innovative processes, based on membrane, chemical and electrochemical technologies, for the purification of strategic raw materials such as Li, Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, etc., present in bioleachates obtained from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.
CONSORTIUM
RECOBATs is implemented by a consortium of 11 partners,
of which 7 are companies and 4 are IPOs.
Econintegral, BeeCycle, DGH, Envirobat, FCC Ámbito, Recyclia, CETIM, Aimen, CIIAE, CSIC-CENIM, and Apria Systems
El proyecto RECOBATs ha sido subvencionado por el Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (CDTI), apoyado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, en la convocatoria para el año 2024 del procedimiento de concesión de ayudas destinadas a “Misiones de Ciencia e Innovación - Transmisiones” en el marco del Programa de Transferencia y Colaboración del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2024-2027.
