Battery recycling agency Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) has been awarded a SuperBoost grant from the Nationwide Science Basis’s (NSF) Power Storage Engine in Upstate New York to scale its low-temperature plasma-assisted separation course of for direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries.
Based at Princeton College in 2019, PNE is growing expertise that allows the restore and rejuvenation of cathode (CAM) and anode supplies containing crucial minerals, with out the high-temperature furnaces or robust acids utilized in typical pyro- and hydro-metallurgical processes. This leads to a low-cost, energy-efficient course of that eliminates poisonous waste streams and produces supplies with efficiency corresponding to virgin sources, in keeping with the corporate.
The SuperBoost grant will allow PNE to show the scalability of the low-temperature plasma-assisted separation (LPAS) course of utilizing pouch cells supplied by upstream companions.
“This isn’t nearly sustainability, it’s about securing crucial infrastructure and supplies right here at dwelling,” stated Dr. Chao Yan, co-founder and CEO of PNE. “We’re capable of speed up our scale-up efforts and convey round financial system options to the US battery market quicker and extra cost-effectively.”
Supply: Princeton NuEnergy
