Juchen Guo

We can extract high-value metals from spent lithium-ion batteries with reusable chloroaluminate reagent and recover them with aqueous process with minimal waste discharge.

Aluminometallurgy does not needs the black mass required in hydrometallurgy, thus physical separation plants can be significantly down-sized. This technology will enable localized recycling plants that are adaptive to variety of battery feeds and eliminating the hazardous materials shipping and storage. Aluminometallurgy use near-neutral aqueous process to recover the critical materials with minimal waste products, reducing the downstream waste treatment. In the long term, I envision aluminometallurgy will largely replace hydrometallurgy.