Battery knowledge · Recycling and end of life
Eddy-current separation
Ejecting non-ferrous metals such as aluminium from a moving stream with a rapidly rotating magnetic field, which induces currents in conductive pieces and throws them off the belt. It recovers casing and foil aluminium.
Example
Recycling and end of life: an example situation
High mass recovery alone does not establish battery-grade purity or refining energy demand.
Read Eddy-current separation alongside Density separation in this context. Separating materials by density in air or liquid: light separator and plastic film rise or float, heavier copper, aluminium and electrode fragments fall or sink.
Use in Lemonergy
Distinguish recovered material from a qualified product.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Topic background · Battery construction, recycling routes and U.S. waste-management context.
- Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles
Gavin Harper et al. · Nature · 2019
Topic background · Reuse, disassembly and mechanical, hydro-, pyro- and direct recycling routes.