The ScrapCO2met project supports the development of an innovative closed-loop recycling solution for Li-ion NMC battery production scrap.
FUNDERS
Project financed by the France 2030 program as part of the RRR Call for Projects (Innovative solutions for improving the recyclability, recycling and reincorporation of materials) steered by ADEME.
The project includes the creation of 2 pre-industrial pilot lines, one for mechanical pre-treatment and the other for hydrometallurgy, to test and validate the various stages of the process.
Recycling is based on 2 key technologies:
1. Recovery of blackmass production with a very high level of purity using innovative MTB mechanical processes.
2. Innovative metal extraction using the properties of CO₂ to selectively extract metals, a process developed by Mecaware.
The ICBMS/LCH and LEPMI laboratories contribute their scientific expertise to support the development of the recycling process, in particular by qualifying recycled materials for the manufacture of CAMs, so that they can be reintegrated into new batteries.
Adeline BENONY-RODIER
Project Manager
Project launch.
MTB Recycling's first pre-industrial mechanical pre-treatment unit for scrap batteries is commissioned.
Definition of a chemical process to start engineering studies for the pre-industrial metal extraction unit.
Commissioning of the first pre-industrial hydrometallurgy unit in Béthune.
Commissioning of the integrated industrial unit at Dunkirk
Commissioning of the integrated industrial unit at Dunkirk