Method for treating waste diaphragm paper of lithium battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11870095-B2
Application number	US-202118043881-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2021
Priority date	Sep 9, 2020
Publication date	Jan 9, 2024
Grant date	Jan 9, 2024

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of waste battery recycling, and discloses a method for treating waste diaphragm paper of a lithium battery, which includes the following steps of: (1) shearing and crushing waste diaphragm paper, and then carrying out pneumatic separation to obtain a light material and a copper-aluminum mixture; (2) putting the light material into a flotation machine for separation to obtain diaphragm paper and battery powder; and (3) pulping the battery powder, and then carrying out leaching of hydrometallurgy, pickling the diaphragm paper, and then filtering and spin-drying to obtain the diaphragm paper. According to the method, the diaphragm paper is treated by a method combining physics and chemistry, so that valuable metals in the waste diaphragm paper of the lithium battery are effectively recycled, and the industrial production requirements of environmental friendliness, low energy consumption and high resource recycling are satisfied.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for treating waste diaphragm paper of a lithium battery, comprising the following steps of:
(1) shearing and crushing waste diaphragm paper, and then carrying out pneumatic separation to obtain a light material and a copper-aluminum mixture;
(2) putting the light material into a flotation machine for separation to obtain diaphragm paper and battery powder; and
(3) pulping the battery powder, and then carrying out leaching of hydrometallurgy, pickling the diaphragm paper, and then filtering and spin-drying to obtain the diaphragm paper;
wherein, in step (1), the method further comprises a step of putting the copper-aluminum mixture into an eddy-current separator for separation to obtain metallic copper and metallic aluminum; a rotor speed of the eddy-current separator ranges from 20 Hz to 40 Hz and a belt speed of the eddy-current separator ranges from 10 Hz to 15 Hz;
in step (3), the specific operation of the leaching of hydrometallurgy is: after pulping the battery powder into a slurry, adding the slurry into a pickling solution for pickling, then adding a reducing agent for reductive leaching, and adjusting a pH to be acidic to obtain leachate; and
in step (3), in the process of pickling the diaphragm paper, the pickling solution used in the pickling is sulfuric acid with a concentration of 0.5 mol/L to 1.5 mol/L; the pickling is carried out at a rotating speed ranging from 200 r/min to 400 r/min, and the pickling lasts for 10 minutes to 30 minutes; and
a mass ratio of the diaphragm paper to the pickling solution is 1:(5 to 10).

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step (1), the pneumatic separation is carried out at a speed of 2 m/s to 3 m/s.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step (2), a stirring speed of the flotation machine ranges from 200 r/min to 400 r/min, and a scraper speed of the flotation machine ranges from 40 r/min to 80 r/min.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the process of leaching of hydrometallurgy, the pickling solution is sulfuric acid; the reducing agent is one of perhydro or sodium sulphite; and the adjusting the pH to be acidic refers to adjusting the pH to a range of 1.5 to 2.0.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step (3), a mesh number of a filter screen used in the filtering process ranges from 60 meshes to 100 meshes; and a centrifuge is used in the spin-drying process, and a rotating speed of the centrifuge ranges from 4,000 r/min to 5,000 r/min.

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Cai Haibing
• Li Qiang
• Li Changdong
• Chen Ruokui
• Chen Song

Classifications

• H01M50/403 Primary

  Manufacturing processes of separators, membranes or diaphragms · CPC title

• B09B3/30 Primary

  involving mechanical treatment (involving an extraction step B09B3/80) · CPC title

• B09B3/35

  Shredding, crushing or cutting · CPC title

• B09B3/70

  Chemical treatment, e.g. pH adjustment or oxidation (involving an extraction step B09B3/80) · CPC title

• H01M6/52

  Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste cells or batteries {, e.g. recycling} · CPC title