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3. Industrial risks associated with battery recycling
Batteries are hazardous waste subject to increasingly specific regulations, as the high accident rate means that collection, transport and storage conditions must be constantly reviewed.
It's important to understand that a battery contains an intimate mixture of several fuels (electrolyte, carbon, aluminum) and an oxidizer (transition metal oxides), all of which are more reactive the less the battery is fully discharged. Following a rise in temperature, an exothermic reaction can therefore occur without any external oxygen supply, and spread by thermal effect to neighboring batteries.
The main hazards associated with batteries and their recycling are as follows
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Bibliography
Regulations
Decree no. 2015-849 of July 10, 2015 on the marketing of batteries and accumulators and the collection and treatment of their waste.
Décret n° 2009-1139 du 22 septembre 2009 transposant la directive européenne 2006/66/CE relative aux piles et accumulateurs ainsi que aux déchets de piles et d'accumulateurs.
The decree is codified in articles R. 543-124 to R. 543-134 of the French...
Patents
Method for preparing nickel and cobalt doped lithium manganate by using waste and old lithium ionic cell as raw material CN200810198972.
A Method of Recycling Valuable Metal from Waste and Old Lithium ion Battery. CN108987841A, 2018.
Method for recycling nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary anode material WO2014/154152A1.
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