MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517032781 A) filed by Young Poong Corporation, Seoul, Republic of Korea, on April 2, for 'method for recovering lithium from waste lithium batteries.'
Inventor(s) include Moon, Nam Il; Lee, Ho Jo; Kim, Eung Bae; and Yoo, Su Hwan.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for efficiently recovering valuable metals from end-of-life waste lithium batteries by dry molten smelting and, more particularly, to a method for recovering lithium by mixing ground or crushed waste lithium batteries with a flux including a Ca compound and a sulfur component and melting same at a high temperature of 1300 C or higher, and then obtaining a lithium-sulfide compound (Li2SO4) volatilizing therefrom."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 17, 2024, under International application No.PCT/KR2024/000845.
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