To mitigate these risks, scientific and industrial communities advocate for the reuse and recycling of retired batteries 11, 12. Reuse aims to extend the useful lifetime of batteries, lower the investment and operational costs of energy systems, and minimize the demand for raw materials.
The EU depends on non-EU countries for the raw materials in batteries, so reusing and recycling them helps the EU keep a competitive advantage on the market and helps prevent possible shortages in the supply chain. An ideal battery management and recycling system begins as soon as a battery is no longer usable.
A study made by Richa et al43 analyses the same thing for the US market. Both studies are very useful for understanding the rate at which batteries can be recovered. In addition to the reviewed articles, the collection area has been studied and results have been published within the framework of a few projects.
As a rule, these studies have one of three different focuses: economic potential, technical possibilities and limitations, and which environmental consequences reuse of batteries entail. Most studies are fairly small and there is a clear need to study larger systems. The conclusions are positive. Recycling is the area which is best covered.
Finally, the battery is retired at 90% SOH and recycled using hydrometallurgical recycling. In contrast, the optimized pathway diverges after the first use stage. The process includes refurbishment, reuse, and recycling. Users need to purchase SLBs with 90% SOH, increasing costs to $176/kWh in the refurbishment stage.
Applications in the reuse phase include energy storage systems (ESSs), communication base stations (CBSs), and low-speed vehicles (LSVs). When the batteries are subjected to the EOL stage, pretreatment and three recycling technologies are considered, including hydrometallurgical, direct, and pyrometallurgical recycling.
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