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A review on the recovery of metal values from spent nickel metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries

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Today’s information-rich world has become more flexible, and its development trusts upon green technologies. Due to rise in demand for proficient transmission of worldwide information and communication, a portable podium is required. Small electronic devices such as portable computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices serve as encouraging entrants that have endorsed the swift progression of information handling and allocation. Attributable to the increased use of portable electronic devices, the batteries have become closely associated with human life and hardly there will be an area without its application. The devices used for these purposes are made of critical elements which have matchless properties inimitable by other materials. Such metals are in high ultimatum and head-on supply insecurity because of several hurdles in recycling technologies. For handling the supply challenges associated with these metals, new approaches have been adopted to isolate these elements from secondary sources. The discarding of voluminous spent batteries has produced a compulsion to discover ways to recover and recycle metals that exist for the development of recycling facility. This report is envisioned to be an appreciated reference for providing state of art of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical treatments for the management of spent nickel metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries. It has been revealed that efficient hydrometallurgical recycling techniques proved to be helpful in terms of environmental defence and maintenance of resources.

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Abbreviations

EVs:

Electric vehicles

PV:

Photovoltaic energy

HEVs:

Hybrid electric vehicles

PHEVs:

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

SLI:

Starting, lighting and Ignition

Emp:

Material production energy for the battery

Emnf:

Manufacturing energy for the battery

Ectg:

Cradle to gate energy for a battery

D2EHPA or P204:

Di-2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid

MTOAC:

Methyltrioctylammonium chloride

LIX:

Hydroxyoximes—chelating agents

Versatic 10:

Neodecanoic acid

MextralR 272P or Cyanex 272:

Bis(2, 4, 4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid

PC 88A:

2-Ethylexyl hydrogen 2-ethylhexyl phosphonate

Cyanex 923:

A mixture of trialkyl phosphine oxides

EDTA:

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

HPLC:

High-performance liquid chromatography

FTIR:

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

SEM:

Scanning electron microscope

FESEM:

Field emission scanning electron microscope

EDX:

Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis

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The authors extend gratefulness to the authorities of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University for their continuous support to carry out this review work.

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Correspondence to S. Mishra.

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Editorial responsibility: Q. Aguilar-Virgen.

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Pradhan, S., Nayak, R. & Mishra, S. A review on the recovery of metal values from spent nickel metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 19, 4537–4554 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03356-5

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