MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611007189 A) filed by Batx Energies Private Limited, Gurugram, Haryana, on Jan. 24, for 'automated system and method for recovery of metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.'
Inventor(s) include Vikrant Singh.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated system (102) for recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from spent lithium-ion batteries comprising a thermal pretreatment unit (104) configured to decompose electrolyte salts at a first temperature and to perform carbothermic reduction at a second temperature in a reducing atmosphere, a leaching reactor (106) equipped with oxidation-reduction potential sensors and pH sensors, configured to perform acid-reductive leaching using sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, a staged impurity precipitation unit (110) configured to remove iron, aluminum and copper, a first solvent extraction circuit (112) employing saponified D2EHPA configured to selectively extract manganese, a second solvent extraction circuit (114) employing a saponified organophosphorus extractant configured to selectively extract cobalt, a crystallization unit (116) configured to recover metal salts; and a controller (108) configured to regulate hydrogen peroxide dosing, reagent addition rates and solvent circulation rates based on sensor feedback from the oxidation-reduction potential sensors and pH sensors."
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