Method for preparing lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide by reverse positioning of power battery and use thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11802055-B1
Application number	US-202118029651-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 30, 2021
Priority date	Dec 23, 2020
Publication date	Oct 31, 2023
Grant date	Oct 31, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for preparing lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide by reverse positioning of a power battery and use thereof. The method first mixes and grinds a positive electrode tab and a slagging agent, then dries, cools, adds an aluminum powder, mixes well, conducts a self-propagating reaction to the mixed material, cools, takes a lower layer of rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy, grinds the rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy, adds an alkali liquor, then immerses, filters, takes the filter residue for washing and then dries, to obtain a nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder, adds a lithium salt solution to the porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder, mixes and drips an alkali liquor, ages, filters, takes a filter residue for washing and then dries, to obtain a mixed powder of precursor, sinters the mixed powder of precursor and cools, to obtain a lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for preparing lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide, comprising the following steps:
(1) disassembling a waste battery and separating it, to obtain a positive electrode tab, a negative electrode tab and a diaphragm;
(2) mixing and grinding the positive electrode tab and a slagging agent, then drying, cooling, adding an aluminum powder, mixing well, to obtain a material; wherein the slagging agent includes one or more of calcium oxide, silicon dioxide or calcium fluoride, the weight ratio of the positive electrode tab and the slagging agent is (15-20):1; and the weight ratio of a mixed material of the positive electrode tab with the slagging agent to the aluminum powder is (2-5):1;
(3) conducting a self-propagating reaction to the material, cooling, and taking a lower layer of rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy; wherein the step of self-propagating reaction is putting the material into a self-propagating reactor, under an inert atmosphere, igniting a magnesium powder to initiate a self-propagating reaction;
(4) grinding the rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy, adding an alkali liquor, and then immersing, filtering, taking a filter residue for washing and drying, to obtain a porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder;
(5) adding a lithium salt solution to the porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder, mixing and dripping an alkali liquor, aging, filtering, taking a filter residue for washing and drying, to obtain a mixed powder of precursor; wherein the molar ratio of hydroxyl in the alkali liquor to lithium ion in the lithium salt solution is (1-1.3):1, the molar ratio of lithium ion in the lithium salt solution to a combined amount of nickel, cobalt and manganese in the porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder is (1.1-1.3):1; and
(6) sintering the mixed powder of precursor and cooling to obtain the lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at step (4), the solid-to-liquid ratio of the ground material of the rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy to the alkali liquor is 1:(2-5)kg/L, the concentration of the alkali liquor is 0.5-3 mol/L.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at step (5), the solid-to-liquid ratio of the porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder to the lithium salt solution is 1:(2-5)kg/L, the concentration of the lithium salt solution is 1-3 mol/L.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein at step (5), the step of mixing and dripping the alkali liquor is: mixing rapidly at a rotary speed of 1000-5000 r/min and dispersing for 20-60 minutes, reducing the rotary speed to 100-500 r/min, dripping a 0.2-3 mol/L alkali liquor while stirring.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein at step (6), the technical parameters of the sintering are: under an oxygen and air atmosphere, heating to 1200-1400° C. at 1-5° C./min and keeping the temperature constant for 2-10 minutes, then cooling down to 700-1000° C. to sintering for 5-30 hours.

Assignees

• Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co Ltd
• Hunan Brunp Recycling Tech Co Ltd
• Hunan Brunp Ev Recycling Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xie Yinghao
• Yu Haijun
• Li Changdong

Classifications

• C01G53/50 Primary

  of the type (MnO2)n-, e.g. Li(NixMn1-x)O2 or Li(MyNixMn1-x-y)O2 · CPC title

• C01G53/52

  of the type (Mn2O4)2-, e.g. Li2(NixMn2-x)O4 or Li2(MyNixMn2-x-y)O4 · CPC title

• C01G53/54

  of the type (Mn2O4)-, e.g. Li(NixMn2-x)O4 or Li(MyNixMn2-x-y)O4 · CPC title

• C01G53/56

  of the type (MnO3)2-, e.g. Li2(NixMn1-x)O3 or Li2(MyNixMn1-x-y)O3 · CPC title

• H01M10/54

  Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste accumulators · CPC title