Mercedes-Benz has embarked on a battery recycling project in South Germany
14 Mar 2022|149 views
Mercedes-Benz is embarking on a new battery recycling pilot project in Kuppenheim, Germany.
The project, Mercedes states, will set new standards for recycling efficiency, with recovery rates of up to 96% expected, facilitating a holistic circular economy for battery materials. To this end, the plant will utilise an innovative mechanical/hydrometallurgical process, which completely dispenses with energy-intensive and material-consuming pyrometallurgical process steps.
Construction of the plant will come in two stages, with the section for mechanical dismantling of batteries constructed by 2023. The second stage - subject to promising discussions with the public sector - will see the facilities for hydrometallurgical processing of the battery materials to go into operation. This means that in the future, the site at Kuppenheim could cover all the stages from dismantling to module level, shredding and drying and subsequent processing of battery-grade material flows.
The pilot plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 2,500 tonnes, and the recovered materials from the plant will be fed back into the recycling loop to produce more than 50,000 battery modules for future new Mercedes-EQ models.
The project, Mercedes states, will set new standards for recycling efficiency, with recovery rates of up to 96% expected, facilitating a holistic circular economy for battery materials. To this end, the plant will utilise an innovative mechanical/hydrometallurgical process, which completely dispenses with energy-intensive and material-consuming pyrometallurgical process steps.
Construction of the plant will come in two stages, with the section for mechanical dismantling of batteries constructed by 2023. The second stage - subject to promising discussions with the public sector - will see the facilities for hydrometallurgical processing of the battery materials to go into operation. This means that in the future, the site at Kuppenheim could cover all the stages from dismantling to module level, shredding and drying and subsequent processing of battery-grade material flows.
The pilot plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 2,500 tonnes, and the recovered materials from the plant will be fed back into the recycling loop to produce more than 50,000 battery modules for future new Mercedes-EQ models.
Mercedes-Benz is embarking on a new battery recycling pilot project in Kuppenheim, Germany.
The project, Mercedes states, will set new standards for recycling efficiency, with recovery rates of up to 96% expected, facilitating a holistic circular economy for battery materials. To this end, the plant will utilise an innovative mechanical/hydrometallurgical process, which completely dispenses with energy-intensive and material-consuming pyrometallurgical process steps.
Construction of the plant will come in two stages, with the section for mechanical dismantling of batteries constructed by 2023. The second stage - subject to promising discussions with the public sector - will see the facilities for hydrometallurgical processing of the battery materials to go into operation. This means that in the future, the site at Kuppenheim could cover all the stages from dismantling to module level, shredding and drying and subsequent processing of battery-grade material flows.
The pilot plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 2,500 tonnes, and the recovered materials from the plant will be fed back into the recycling loop to produce more than 50,000 battery modules for future new Mercedes-EQ models.
The project, Mercedes states, will set new standards for recycling efficiency, with recovery rates of up to 96% expected, facilitating a holistic circular economy for battery materials. To this end, the plant will utilise an innovative mechanical/hydrometallurgical process, which completely dispenses with energy-intensive and material-consuming pyrometallurgical process steps.
Construction of the plant will come in two stages, with the section for mechanical dismantling of batteries constructed by 2023. The second stage - subject to promising discussions with the public sector - will see the facilities for hydrometallurgical processing of the battery materials to go into operation. This means that in the future, the site at Kuppenheim could cover all the stages from dismantling to module level, shredding and drying and subsequent processing of battery-grade material flows.
The pilot plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 2,500 tonnes, and the recovered materials from the plant will be fed back into the recycling loop to produce more than 50,000 battery modules for future new Mercedes-EQ models.
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