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    生物质热解气还原废旧三元锂离子电池电极材料试验研究

    Experimental study on reductive pyrolysis of spent ternary lithium-ion battery electrode materials using biomass pyrolysis gas

    • 摘要: 废旧三元锂离子电池正极材料中富含锂、镍、钴、锰等关键金属元素,具有极高的回收价值。还原焙烧优先提锂工艺因流程短、效率高,成为废旧三元锂离子电池资源化回收的关键技术之一。但现有工艺路线大多存在能耗高、二次污染或金属回收率不足等问题,亟须开发绿色低碳的新型回收技术。生物质作为一种可再生能源,采用生物质进行还原焙烧优先提锂成为一条有效的绿色低碳路径。因此本研究采用实际生物质进行热解气还原焙烧试验,对比了杨木屑、花生壳、茶叶渣3种生物质热解气对正极材料的还原作用以及焙烧产物的水浸提锂效率,其中杨木屑热解气和花生壳热解气的最佳焙烧条件均为600 ℃、30 min,在最佳焙烧条件下,杨木屑热解气、花生壳热解气作用后焙烧产物的锂浸出率分别为95.67%、93.38%。在多种组分共同作用下,茶叶渣热解气在更短的时间内表现出更好浸出效率,其最佳焙烧条件为600 ℃、20 min,在此条件下焙烧产物的锂浸出率达到94.70%在此基础上,基于电极材料的热重和差示扫描量热分析结果,开展茶叶渣热解气还原电极材料试验,研究结果表明,茶叶渣热解气中CO2的存在有效避免了LiAlO2的产生,但有机黏结剂的存在使得最佳焙烧时间延后至30 min,并导致锂浸出率小幅度降低,在600 ℃、30 min的最佳条件下锂浸出率为91.25%。进一步对提锂液蒸发结晶,获得微观形貌为棒状结构碳酸锂,XRD分析表明蒸发结晶产物的峰值完全符合碳酸锂的特征峰,碳酸锂产物的纯度达到99.7%。

       

      Abstract: The spent cathode materials from ternary lithium-ion batteries contain key metal elements such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese, and have extremely high recovery value. The reduction roasting and priority lithium extraction process, due to its short process and high efficiency, has become one of the key technologies for the resource recovery of spent ternary lithium-ion batteries. However, most of the existing process routes suffer from high energy consumption, secondary pollution, or low metal recovery rates, creating an urgent need for the development of green and low-carbon novel recovery technologies. As a renewable energy source, biomass presents an effective green and low-carbon approach for reduction roasting and priority lithium extraction. Therefore, this study used actual biomass materials for pyrolysis gas reduction roasting experiments. The reducing effects of pyrolysis gases from three biomass materials—poplar sawdust, peanut shells, and tea residues—on the cathode material and the water-leaching lithium recovery efficiencies from the roasted products were compared. The optimal roasting conditions for both poplar sawdust and peanut shell pyrolysis gases were 600 °C for 30 minutes. Under these optimal conditions, the lithium leaching rates from the roasted products were 95.67% and 93.38%, respectively. Under the synergistic effect of multiple components, tea residue pyrolysis gas exhibited better leaching efficiency in a shorter time; its optimal roasting conditions were 600 °C for 20 minutes, achieving a lithium leaching rate of 94.70% from the roasted product under these conditions. On this basis, and informed by thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry analyses of the electrode material, reduction roasting experiments using tea residue pyrolysis gas were conducted. The results showed that the presence of CO2 in the tea residue pyrolysis gas effectively avoided the formation of LiAlO2. However, the presence of the organic binder delayed the optimal roasting time to 30 minutes and caused a slight decrease in lithium leaching efficiency. Under the optimal conditions (600 °C, 30 minutes), the lithium leaching rate reached 91.25%. Further evaporation and crystallization of the lithium-rich leachate produced a lithium carbonate product with a rod-like microstructure. XRD analysis indicated that the peaks of the evaporated and crystallized product fully matched the characteristic peaks of lithium carbonate, and the purity of the lithium carbonate product reached 99.7%.

       

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