Leo Gutierrez*, Francis Kotoka, Jonathan Mendez, Maarten Bossuyt, Abdulsalam Alhadidi, Afroditi Kourou, Yi Ouyang, Kevin M. Van Geem, Priscila Valverde and Emile Cornelissen,
{"title":"","authors":"Leo Gutierrez*, Francis Kotoka, Jonathan Mendez, Maarten Bossuyt, Abdulsalam Alhadidi, Afroditi Kourou, Yi Ouyang, Kevin M. Van Geem, Priscila Valverde and Emile Cornelissen, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100015,"journal":{"name":"ACS Sustainable Resource Management","volume":"2 6","pages":"XXX-XXX 2305–2315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144479828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aliza Marie Salces, Marc Simon Henderson, Alvaro José Rodríguez-Medina, Kai Bachmann, Elsayed Oraby, Chau Chun Beh, Martin Rudolph, Jacques Eksteen, Anna Vanderbruggen
{"title":"Evaluation of a Bio-Based Solvent Pretreatment for Sustainable Froth Flotation of Black Mass from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries.","authors":"Aliza Marie Salces, Marc Simon Henderson, Alvaro José Rodríguez-Medina, Kai Bachmann, Elsayed Oraby, Chau Chun Beh, Martin Rudolph, Jacques Eksteen, Anna Vanderbruggen","doi":"10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00058","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Froth flotation effectively separates anode graphite from cathode active materials (CAMs) of spent lithium-ion batteries when CAM particles are free of organic binders, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). This study investigated a bio-based solvent, dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene<sup>TM</sup> ), as a pretreatment to remove the PVDF binder from both single chemistry black mass (BM) and industrially produced mixed chemistry black mass (IBM). The subsequent flotation combined with high-intensity attritioning improved CAMs and graphite separation efficiency compared to that of mechanical pretreatment alone, increasing from 0.30 to 0.53 in BM and from 0.37 to 0.54 in IBM. Although pyrolysis resulted in higher separation efficiencies of 0.92 in BM and 0.78 in IBM, Cyrene pretreatment presents advantages in non-emission of toxic gases and in preserving lithium within the CAMs. In the flotation process water, an average lithium dissolution of only 5.5% in BM and 14.7% in IBM was recorded with Cyrene pretreatment, compared to that of 29.3% in BM and 55.4% in IBM with pyrolysis pretreatment. The lower quality of the flotation products obtained with Cyrene pretreatment necessitates further purification steps such as cleaner flotation. Optimizing pretreatment parameters is crucial, including the Cyrene to black mass ratio and contact time. A key challenge is preventing the thermally induced phase separation of PVDF at temperatures lower than 80 °C, which negatively affects the effective separation of graphite and CAMs by froth flotation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100015,"journal":{"name":"ACS Sustainable Resource Management","volume":"2 6","pages":"1021-1029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12207666/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144546759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Taylor Sobczak, Gengyang Li, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Varunkumar Thippanna, Lindsay B. Chambers, Taylor Theobald, Hongyue Sun, Stephen Nolet, Ke Li* and Kenan Song*,
{"title":"","authors":"M. Taylor Sobczak, Gengyang Li, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Varunkumar Thippanna, Lindsay B. Chambers, Taylor Theobald, Hongyue Sun, Stephen Nolet, Ke Li* and Kenan Song*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100015,"journal":{"name":"ACS Sustainable Resource Management","volume":"2 5","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144450520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonali R. Surase, Ajay Y. Dhodi, Ashok L. Sunatkari*, Girish S. Gund* and Pradip B. Sarawade*,
{"title":"","authors":"Sonali R. Surase, Ajay Y. Dhodi, Ashok L. Sunatkari*, Girish S. Gund* and Pradip B. Sarawade*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100015,"journal":{"name":"ACS Sustainable Resource Management","volume":"2 5","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144359773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph E. Jacobs*, C. Heath Stanfield*, Quin R. S. Miller, Matthew A. Villante, José Marcial, Emily T. Nienhuis, Joshua A. Silverstein, Ellen G. Polites, Madeline F. Bartels, Brad T. Gooch, Jian Liu, Joyashish Thakurta, Nabajit Lahiri and H. Todd Schaef,
{"title":"","authors":"Joseph E. Jacobs*, C. Heath Stanfield*, Quin R. S. Miller, Matthew A. Villante, José Marcial, Emily T. Nienhuis, Joshua A. Silverstein, Ellen G. Polites, Madeline F. Bartels, Brad T. Gooch, Jian Liu, Joyashish Thakurta, Nabajit Lahiri and H. Todd Schaef, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100015,"journal":{"name":"ACS Sustainable Resource Management","volume":"2 5","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144359775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}