Recovery of Li and Fe from spent lithium iron phosphate using organic acid leaching system
The valuable metals,lithium and iron,were recovered from spent LiFePO4 cathode powder by hydro-metallurgy,and the recycled products were used as raw materials for the preparation of lithium iron phosphate.By the optimization of the leaching process parameters,the leaching efficiency of Li reached 96.56%at pyruvic acid concentration of 3.0 mol/L,volume of H2O2 of 2 mL,solid-to-liquid ratio of 0.1 g/mL,reaction temperature of 80 ℃,and reaction time of 20 min.The leached residue was characterized by XRD,XPS,and FE-SEM coupled with EDS,and the results showed that the leached residue was FePO4 with an Fe/P molar ratio of 0.974.After adjusting the pH of the leaching solution to 12.0 and stirring for 2 h at 80 ℃,the recovery of Li from the leaching solution was enabled by in-situ precipitation in the form of Li3PO4 with a purity of 96.5 wt.%.The reaction kinetic data of Li leaching using the pyruvic acid/H2O2 solution were fit to the Avrami model with R2>0.95.The low activation energy of the Li leaching process indicated that diffusion step limited the reaction rate during the leaching process.
spent LiFePO4pyruvic acidleaching kineticsAvrami modellithium ion batteries
王亚辉、伍继君、胡国琛、马文会
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昆明理工大学冶金与能源工程学院,昆明 650093
昆明理工大学真空冶金国家工程实验室,昆明 650093
废旧磷酸铁锂 丙酮酸 浸出动力学 Avrami模型 锂离子电池
Talent Training Program of Yunnan Province,ChinaMajor R&D Project of Yunnan Province of China