A typical mid-sized battery materials processing facility can produce 50,000 tons of waste sodium sulfate per year, most of which currently goes to landfill. Bilen Aküzüm, chief technology officer (CTO) of California-based startup Aepnus, explains how the company uses an electrolysis process to convert this waste back into usable chemicals for the battery industry.
Aepnus founders Lukas Hackl, left, and Bilen Aküzüm.
Photo: Aepnus
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