OUR PROCESS

Environment and geostrategic perspectives mean that the recycling of cathode materials from lithium-ion batteries is a key concern for the industry, as well as the economic imperative of reducing costs. As the battery industry continues to grow the ability to return secondary materials to the supply chain will become increasingly important.

The cathode is the most valuable part of the lithium-ion battery cell and contains metals such as nickel and cobalt, as well as manganese and lithium.

At the moment, there are different ways to recycle the  lithium-ion battery cells:

  • Pyrometallurgical
  • Hydrometallurgical
  • Direct recycling
 

MOGA will use a hydrometallurgical process which will result in a better quality of recovered materials and less waste generation. This process also has advantages in that it has lower capital costs and will recover cobalt and nickel as well as copper, manganese and aluminium, and provides the potential of recovering lithium.

 

01

Disassembly

Waste batteries arrive at the facility to undergo checking, discharging of any energy remaining in battery pack and dismantling into module

02

Shredding

Modules are shredded for initial size reduction to prepare it for further processing.

03

Condensing & Drying

Processed material is dried and liquid electrolyte is pumped out.

04

Separation

The dry mass is sieved and magnetic raw materials are separated from the non-magnetic processed material.

05

Granulation

Further size reduction is undertaken of the shredded and dried inputs, this results in black mass and prepares the materials for refining.

06

Refining

Hydrometallurgy processing method is used and valuable cathode materials are extracted for reuse.