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公开(公告)号:US20240247337A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-25
申请号:US18617548
申请日:2024-03-26
Applicant: JAMES GUY BLENCOE , AREND GROEN
Inventor: JAMES GUY BLENCOE , AREND GROEN
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a process for co-producing lithium, aluminum, and silicon-oxygen (Si—O) materials, and more particularly, to a process for co-producing lithium, aluminum, and Si—O materials from a hard rock source in the form of a granular concentrate of one or more lithium-containing silicate minerals including spodumene. In particular, there is provided a process for co-producing Li, Al, and Si—O materials from the beta (β) crystallographic form of the Li-containing silicate mineral spodumene, which in its purest state has the composition LiAlSi2O6.
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公开(公告)号:US20240204279A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-20
申请号:US18582718
申请日:2024-02-21
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute , Ascend Elements, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Wang , Diran Apelian , Haiyang Zou
CPC classification number: H01M10/54 , C22B1/24 , C22B7/007 , C22B23/0423 , C22B23/043 , C22B23/0438 , C22B26/22
Abstract: Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
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公开(公告)号:US11955613B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-09
申请号:US17412742
申请日:2021-08-26
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor: Yan Wang , Eric Gratz , Qina Sa , Zhangfeng Zheng , Joseph Heelan , Kee-Chan Kim
CPC classification number: H01M10/54 , C22B1/24 , C22B7/007 , C22B23/0423 , C22B23/043 , C22B23/0438 , C22B26/22
Abstract: Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
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公开(公告)号:US11866803B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-09
申请号:US18072329
申请日:2022-11-30
Applicant: Central South University
Inventor: Liyuan Chai , Qingwei Wang , Xiaobo Min , Qingzhu Li , Meiqing Shi
Abstract: The invention provides a complete set of treatment system and method for deep utilization of dolomite resources. The system includes a primary calcination device, a carbon dioxide capture device, a digestion device, a carbonization separation device, a pyrolysis device and a secondary calcination device; the primary calcination device includes a dolomite calciner, a plurality of hoardings and an exhaust pipe, and an exhaust chamber is formed between the hoardings, the top of the dolomite calciner and the outer wall of the blanking bin; the exhaust chamber is in communication with the carbon dioxide capture device through the exhaust pipe; the carbonization separation device includes a carbonization reaction tank whose gas inlet is in communication with the gas outlet of the carbon dioxide capture device; and the pyrolysis device includes a pyrolysis kettle and a vacuum pump which maintains a negative pressure state in the pyrolysis kettle.
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公开(公告)号:US11773500B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-03
申请号:US16944147
申请日:2020-07-31
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor: Adam Clayton Powell, IV , David Dussault , Matthew Earlam , Aaron Tajima , Connor Raymes
CPC classification number: C25C3/04 , B01D1/0082 , B01D1/26 , B01D5/006 , C22B26/22
Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for efficient metal distillation, and for related primary product process. Vertically stacked and gravity-driven evaporators and condensers are employed to distill metals, such metals having different volatilities. A multiple-effect thermal system of magnesium and other volatile metals is used to efficiently distill and separate metals from multiple metal alloys.
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公开(公告)号:US20230198040A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US18113130
申请日:2023-02-23
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute , Ascend Elements, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Wang , Diran Apelian , Haiyang Zou
CPC classification number: H01M10/54 , C22B23/0438 , C22B23/0423 , C22B26/22 , C22B23/043 , C22B1/24 , C22B7/007
Abstract: Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
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公开(公告)号:US20220311068A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17841152
申请日:2022-06-15
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor: Yan Wang , Eric Gratz , Qina Sa , Zhangfeng Zheng , Joseph Heelan , Kee-Chan Kim
Abstract: Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
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公开(公告)号:US20220307108A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17596417
申请日:2020-09-17
Inventor: Jun ZHOU , Guangli ZHANG , Pei YANG , Yong GAN
Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of preparation of light metal alloy materials, in particular to a method for producing a magnesium-lithium alloy by a gaseous co-condensation method. The method comprises the steps of: 1) mixing and briquetting a lithium salt, a refractory agent and a catalyst under pressure, and then thermally decomposing to form an unsaturated composite oxide; 2) respectively crushing and ball-milling, and then briquetting the unsaturated composite oxide, magnesium oxide, a reducing agent and a fluxing agent; 3) reducing briquettes in vacuum; 4) making a gas pass through a first condensing chamber of a temperature control device, and then purifying; 5) The purified metal gas is condensed into the condensing phase of the alloy through the second condensing chamber of a quenching device; 6) obtaining the magnesium-lithium alloy with a purity being 99.5% or above by virtue of smelting and flux-refining, and then purifying by distillation. The magnesium-lithium alloy obtained in the present application is not segregated, so that a stable β-phase solid solution or a compound having an increasing purity being 99.95% is formed.
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公开(公告)号:US11408052B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-09
申请号:US16985648
申请日:2020-08-05
Applicant: Greenore Cleantech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Inventor: Huangjing Zhao , Xiaozhou Zhou
Abstract: The present invention is a CO2 based hydrometallurgical multistage reaction and separation system comprising: a pre-washing device configured to fully mix the feedstock, such as industrial solid waste, mineral and mine tailings with auxiliary reagents and water at specific ratio, a reactor configured to treat the washed slurry with CO2 bubbling and discharge the treated slurry to the next stage, multistage separators configured to separate solid particles from treated slurry and recycle the unreacted solids back into the pre-washing device, a by-product preparation device configured to generate calcium and magnesium based products from filtrate containing target elements, a water recirculating device configured to recycle the remaining liquor back to the system. The present invention ensures the whole system is able to continuously and consistently react at maximum capacity through continuous slurry feeding and CO2 bubbling into the reactors which also enables multistage circulating reaction.
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公开(公告)号:US20210391606A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-16
申请号:US17412742
申请日:2021-08-26
Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Inventor: Yan Wang , Eric Gratz , Qina Sa , Zhangfeng Zheng , Joseph Heelan , Kee-Chan Kim
Abstract: Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
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