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In Conversation: Going full circle

With manufacturing ramping up year by year and policies already looking to get ahead of the large volumes of end-of-life products, the landscape for lithium-ion battery recycling is rapidly changing. pv magazine recently spoke with Mari Lundström, associate professor of chemical and metallurgical engineering at Aalto University, to find out what is needed on the research side for the effective recycling of batteries.

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Mark Hutchins

08 Jul 2021

Image: Anni Hanen/Aalto University

What does battery recycling currently look like? In Europe, batteries have been treated as e-waste, along with mobile phones and other electronics. Processes have not been optimized for batteries, but work for any kind of secondary scrap. They have been good in recovery of base metals – nickel, cobalt and copper. But we have been …

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