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- the present invention relates to a method of recycling resources when manufacturing a lithium secondary battery.
- the present invention particularly relates to a method of recovering and reusing positive electrode scraps generated in a lithium secondary battery manufacturing process or a positive electrode active material of a lithium secondary battery that is discarded after use.
- This application is a priority claim application for Korean Patent Application No. 10-2020-0062372 filed on May 25, 2020, and all contents disclosed in the specification and drawings of the application are incorporated herein by reference.
- Lithium secondary batteries that can be repeatedly charged and discharged are in the spotlight as an alternative to fossil energy.
- Lithium secondary batteries have been mainly used in traditional hand-held devices such as cell phones, video cameras, and power tools.
- electric vehicles EVs, HEVs, PHEVs
- ESSs large-capacity power storage devices
- UPS uninterruptible power supply systems
- a lithium secondary battery includes an electrode assembly in which unit cells having a structure in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate coated with an active material are coated on a current collector with a separator interposed therebetween, and a casing for sealing and housing the electrode assembly together with an electrolyte, that is, a battery case to provide
- the cathode active material of the lithium secondary battery mainly uses a lithium-based oxide, and the anode active material uses a carbon material.
- the lithium-based oxide contains a metal such as cobalt, nickel, or manganese.
- cobalt, nickel, and manganese are very expensive valuable metals, and among them, cobalt is a strategic metal, and each country has a special interest in supply and demand. is known If there is an imbalance in the supply and demand of raw materials for strategic metals, raw material prices are highly likely to rise.
- waste batteries lithium secondary batteries
- resources can be recovered from wastes discarded after the positive electrode plate is punched or from the positive electrode having defects in the process.
- a positive electrode active material layer 20 when manufacturing a lithium secondary battery, as shown in FIG. 1 , a positive electrode active material layer 20 ) by forming the positive electrode sheet 30, and then punching out the positive electrode plate 40 to a predetermined size. The part remaining after punching is discarded as anode scrap (scrap, 50). If it is possible to recover the cathode active material from the cathode scrap 50 and reuse it, it would be very desirable from an industrial-economic point of view and an environmental point of view.
- the method of recovering the cathode active material is mostly to dissolve the cathode in hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, etc., extract active material elements such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese, and then use it again as a raw material for the cathode active material synthesis.
- the method of extracting the active material element using an acid has the disadvantage that the process for recovering the pure raw material is not environmentally friendly, and the neutralization process and the wastewater treatment process are required, which increases the process cost.
- it has a disadvantage that lithium, which is one of the main elements of the cathode active material, cannot be recovered.
- a method that can be directly reused without dissolving the positive electrode active material and extracting the active material in elemental form is required.
- the problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for recovering and reusing an active material from a cathode scrap.
- the positive active material reuse method of the present invention includes (a) heat-treating a positive electrode scrap including a lithium cobalt oxide positive electrode active material layer on a current collector in air to thermally decompose a binder and a conductive material in the active material layer, separating the current collector from the active material layer and recovering the active material in the active material layer; (b) washing and drying the recovered active material using an aqueous lithium precursor solution showing basicity in an aqueous solution; and (c) annealing the washed active material without adding an additional lithium precursor to obtain a reusable active material.
- the heat treatment may be performed at 300 to 650° C. within 1 hour.
- the heat treatment may be performed at 550° C. for 30 minutes at a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min.
- the washing may be performed by stirring the recovered active material simultaneously with the impregnation of the lithium precursor aqueous solution.
- the lithium precursor aqueous solution is prepared to contain more than 0% and 15% or less of the lithium precursor, and the lithium precursor preferably contains LiOH.
- the washing is preferably performed within 10 minutes.
- the amount of lithium lost compared to the ratio of lithium and other metals in the raw material active material used for the active material layer may be added.
- the annealing may be performed at 400 to 1000° C. in air.
- the temperature of the annealing step may be a temperature exceeding the melting point of the lithium precursor.
- the active material in the active material layer may be recovered in the form of a powder, and a carbon component generated by carbonization of the binder or the conductive material may not remain on the surface.
- the reusable active material may have a particle size distribution similar to that of the active material in the active material layer.
- the reusable active material may have a content of fluorine (F) of 100 ppm or less.
- Another positive electrode active material reuse method is (a) a positive electrode including a lithium cobalt oxide positive electrode active material layer on a current collector, a positive electrode scrap remaining after punching out a positive electrode scrap in air at 300 ⁇ 650 °C heat treatment within 1 hour by thermally decomposing the binder and the conductive material in the active material layer, thereby separating the current collector from the active material layer and recovering the active material in the active material layer; (b) washing and drying the recovered active material within 10 minutes using a lithium precursor aqueous solution containing more than 0% and 15% or less of a lithium precursor, showing basicity in an aqueous solution; and (c) annealing in air at 400 to 1000° C. without adding an additional lithium precursor to the washed active material.
- the waste positive electrode active material such as positive electrode scrap generated during the lithium secondary battery manufacturing process can be reused without using an acid, so it is eco-friendly.
- the method according to the present invention does not require a neutralization process or a wastewater treatment process, so it is possible to alleviate environmental issues and reduce process costs.
- the present invention it is possible to recover the positive electrode active material without a metal element that cannot be recovered. Since the current collector is not dissolved, the current collector can also be recovered. It is economical because it is a method that can directly reuse the active material recovered in powder form rather than extracting the active material element and using it again as a raw material for synthesizing the cathode active material.
- the present invention it is safe because it does not use toxic and explosive solvents such as NMP, DMC, acetone, and methanol, and because simple processes such as heat treatment, washing, and annealing are used, process management is easy and suitable for mass production.
- toxic and explosive solvents such as NMP, DMC, acetone, and methanol
- the heat treatment is performed quickly (within 1 hour) to suppress the formation of LiF and Co 3 O 4 and shorten the surface modification time (within 10 minutes) in the cleaning process using the lithium precursor aqueous solution. It has the advantage of minimizing the elution of lithium due to reforming, and then recovering the crystal structure through high-temperature annealing to recover the battery characteristics of the regenerated active material.
- 1 is a view showing positive electrode scrap discarded after the positive electrode plate is punched from the positive electrode sheet.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an active material reuse method according to the present invention.
- XPS X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
- XRD 5 is an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of the active materials of Examples and Comparative Examples.
- the present invention is a lithium secondary battery There is a difference in that the active material is also recovered from the cathode scrap generated during the manufacturing process.
- the present invention relates to a method of directly reusing the cathode active material without dissolving it.
- a method for removing the current collector from the positive electrode is required.
- To remove the current collector from the positive electrode it is possible to remove the binder through high-temperature heat treatment, to melt the binder using a solvent, to completely melt the current collector, and to select the active material through dry grinding and sieving. do.
- the stability of the solvent is important in dissolving the binder using the solvent.
- NMP is probably the most efficient solvent, but it has the disadvantages of toxicity and high price.
- a solvent recovery process such as reprocessing the waste solvent is required. Melting the current collector will be cheaper than using a solvent.
- there is a risk of explosion because it is difficult to remove foreign substances from the surface of the reusable active material and hydrogen gas is generated during the current collector removal process. It is difficult to completely separate the current collector and the active material by dry grinding and sieving. During the pulverization process, the particle size distribution of the active material is changed and it is difficult to remove the binder, so there is a disadvantage in that the characteristics of the reused battery deteriorate.
- the active material and the current collector are separated using high-temperature heat treatment.
- heat treatment is carried out in air, it is advantageous for mass production and commercialization because it is a relatively simple process that does not require a special device configuration and only needs to be heated.
- foreign substances should not remain on the surface of the reusable active material. In the present invention, even the step of removing foreign substances from the surface of the reusable active material is proposed.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an active material reuse method according to the present invention.
- a cathode scrap to be discarded is prepared (step s10).
- the positive electrode scrap may be a portion remaining after manufacturing a positive electrode sheet including a positive electrode active material layer on a current collector and punching out.
- positive electrode scrap may be prepared by separating the positive electrode from the discarded lithium secondary battery after use.
- NMP N-methyl pyrrolidone
- an active material such as LiCoO 2 (LCO), which is lithium cobalt oxide, carbon black as a conductive material, and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF), which is a binder, and mixed.
- LCO LiCoO 2
- PVdF polyvinylidene fluoride
- the positive electrode scrap has an active material layer on a current collector of a metal foil such as aluminum foil.
- the active material layer is formed by coating a slurry in which an active material, a conductive material, a binder, a solvent, etc. are mixed, and has a structure in which the binder connects the active material and the conductive material after the solvent is volatilized. Therefore, if the binder is removed, the active material may be separated from the current collector.
- the anode scrap is crushed to an appropriate size (step s20).
- Shredding refers to the cutting or shredding of anode scrap into pieces of suitable, easy-to-handle size. After crushing, the anode scrap is cut into small pieces, for example 1 cm x 1 cm.
- various dry crushing equipment such as hand-mill, pin-mill, disk-mill, cutting-mill, hammer-mill may be used, or a high-speed cutter may be used.
- Crushing can be carried out in consideration of the characteristics required in the equipment used in the handling of the anode scrap and subsequent processes. For example, in the case of using equipment that requires continuous processing in loading and unloading anode scrap, the fluidity of the anode scrap must be good, so that too large anode scrap must be crushed.
- the anode scrap is heat-treated in air (step s30).
- the heat treatment is performed to thermally decompose the binder in the active material layer.
- Heat treatment can be performed at 300 ⁇ 650 °C, so it can be called high temperature heat treatment.
- At a temperature of less than 300 °C it is difficult to remove the binder, so that the current collector cannot be separated.
- the current collector melts (Al melting point: 660 °C), and the current collector cannot be separated.
- the heat treatment time is maintained so that the binder can be sufficiently thermally decomposed. For example, around 30 minutes. Preferably it is set as 30 minutes or more. The longer the heat treatment time, the longer the time for thermal decomposition of the binder to occur. Preferably, the heat treatment time is 30 minutes or more and less than 5 hours. Most preferably, within 1 hour.
- the binder and conductive material are removed as CO 2 and H 2 O, it reacts with lithium on the surface of the positive electrode active material to form Li 2 CO 3 , LiOH, and reacts with F present in the binder to form LiF or metal fluoride can be formed.
- Co 3 O 4 may be generated by thermal decomposition on the surface. If the battery is manufactured while Co 3 O 4 is present, battery characteristics may deteriorate. By setting the heat treatment time to less than 1 hour, it is possible to suppress the generation of impurities that not only lose lithium like LiF but also deteriorate the performance of the secondary battery when remaining. In particular, a short heat treatment of less than 1 hour is preferable because Co 3 O 4 production is suppressed.
- the heat treatment equipment may be various types of furnaces.
- it may be a box-type furnace or a rotary kiln capable of continuous processing in consideration of productivity.
- the heat treatment may be performed at 600° C. for 30 minutes at a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min.
- the temperature increase rate is, for example, a degree that can be implemented without excessive force in a box-type furnace and can be heated without generating a thermal shock or the like to the anode scrap.
- 600 °C is to consider the melting point of the Al current collector, and to allow the thermal decomposition of the binder to occur well.
- heat treatment for less than 10 minutes is insufficient for thermal decomposition, so heat treatment should be carried out for more than 10 minutes, and heat treatment should be performed for more than 30 minutes if possible.
- thermal decomposition of the binder and the conductive material occurs sufficiently even after heat treatment for 30 minutes, and the formation of LiF and Co 3 O 4 can be suppressed.
- the binder and conductive material in the active material layer are thermally decomposed through heat treatment in air, they become CO 2 and H 2 O and are removed. Since the binder is removed, the active material is separated from the current collector, and the active material to be recovered may be selected in powder form. Accordingly, only in step s30, the current collector may be separated from the active material layer and the active material in the active material layer may be recovered.
- step s30 it is important that the heat treatment of step s30 be performed in air. If the heat treatment is performed in a reducing gas or inert gas atmosphere, the binder and the conductive material are not thermally decomposed but only carbonized. When carbonization is performed, the carbon component remains on the surface of the active material, thereby degrading the performance of the reusable active material. When heat treatment is performed in air, the carbon material in the binder or the conductive material reacts with oxygen and is burned and removed as CO and CO 2 gas, so that almost all of the binder and the conductive material are removed without remaining.
- the active material is recovered in the form of a powder, and the carbon component generated by carbonization of the binder or the conductive material may not remain on the surface.
- the recovered active material is washed and dried (step s40).
- This lithium precursor aqueous solution is prepared to contain more than 0% and not more than 15% lithium precursor, and preferably one containing LiOH as the lithium precursor is used.
- the amount of LiOH is preferably 15% or less.
- the use of excess LiOH may leave excess LiOH on the surface of the active material even after washing, which may affect future annealing processes. In order to clean the surface of the active material in the pre-annealing step as much as possible, the addition of excess LiOH is not good for the process, so it is limited to 15% or less.
- Washing may be performed by immersing the recovered active material in the lithium precursor aqueous solution. Washing includes immersing the active material in an aqueous lithium precursor solution showing basicity in an aqueous solution state, stirring the immersion state, and the like. It is recommended to use agitation as much as possible. If only immersion in the lithium precursor aqueous solution without stirring is performed, the cleaning process is slow and may cause lithium leaching. Since the process time can be minimized when agitation is performed in parallel, it is preferable that the agitation proceed simultaneously with the lithium precursor aqueous solution impregnation.
- washing is performed for a long time, there is a risk that the capacity may decrease due to excessive lithium elution. Therefore, it is preferable to carry out within 1 hour. Most preferably, it is carried out very briefly, within 10 minutes, to minimize dissolution of lithium.
- Drying may be performed in air in an oven (convection type) after filtration.
- the reason for washing using a lithium precursor aqueous solution showing basicity in an aqueous solution is to remove LiF and metal fluoride that may exist on the surface of the recovered active material and to perform surface modification.
- Step heat treatment of s30 while ash binder and conductive in the active material layer are removed is vaporized as a CO 2 and H 2 O
- CO 2 and H 2 O the active surface of the lithium reacts with Li 2 CO 3
- LiOH is also formed
- F present in a binder such as PVdF reacts with metal elements constituting the positive electrode active material to form LiF or metal fluoride.
- step s40 by adding a washing step as in step s40 to remove reactants that may have been generated on the surface of the reused active material during the heat treatment step (s30), foreign substances are not left on the surface of the recycled active material.
- step s40 it is important to wash using a lithium precursor aqueous solution showing basicity in an aqueous solution state. If an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid is used rather than an aqueous solution of a lithium precursor that is basic in an aqueous solution, it is possible to wash F on the surface of the active material. make it
- the lithium precursor aqueous solution showing basicity in the aqueous solution state used in the present invention can not only remove the binder that may remain in a trace amount even after the thermal decomposition of step s30, but also does not elute the transition metal present in the active material, and in the washing process It is very desirable because it can also serve to supplement the amount of lithium that can be eluted.
- the lost lithium ratio compared to the ratio of lithium and other metals in the raw material active material used for the active material layer through the washing in step s40.
- the loss of lithium in the active material can be suppressed as much as possible through a configuration such as performing the heat treatment time within 1 hour during the preceding step s30, a small amount of additional lithium loss may occur even through the process of washing, so heat treatment or If lithium loss occurs during the washing process, it is supplemented with the lithium precursor aqueous solution used during washing in step s40.
- step s50 the washed active material is annealed without adding an additional lithium precursor.
- step s50 a reusable active material may be obtained.
- the heat treatment time is performed within 1 hour and the washing is also performed within 10 minutes, so that lithium loss in the active material can be minimized. Therefore, it is possible to omit the addition of an additional lithium precursor for replenishing the lost lithium. Since lithium supplementation using an aqueous lithium precursor solution is also made in the previous washing step (s40), further addition of a lithium precursor is not required.
- step s50 the crystal structure of the active material is restored through annealing to restore or improve the properties of the reused active material to the level of a fresh active material that has never been used.
- a deformed structure may appear on the surface of the active material.
- Co 3 O 4 may be generated by thermal decomposition on the surface. If the battery is manufactured while Co 3 O 4 is present, battery characteristics may deteriorate. In the present invention, the initial properties can be restored or improved to a level similar to that of the fresh active material by recovering the crystal structure through step s50 and removing Co 3 O 4 .
- Annealing may be performed at 400 to 1000° C. in air.
- the annealing temperature may be 600-900°C. This temperature should be changed within a limited range depending on the type of the lithium precursor. It is preferable to set the annealing time to 1 hour or more. Preferably, it is about 5 hours. If the annealing time is long, the crystal structure can be sufficiently recovered, but even if it is used for a long time, the performance is not greatly affected. Annealing time is made into 15 hours or less, for example.
- the annealing equipment may use the same or similar equipment as in the heat treatment step s30.
- the annealing temperature of step s50 is preferably 400 to 600°C, more preferably 450 to 480°C. This is because the melting point of LiOH is 462°C.
- the annealing temperature is preferably a temperature exceeding the melting point of the lithium precursor. However, at a temperature exceeding 1000°C, thermal decomposition of the positive electrode active material occurs and the performance of the active material is deteriorated, so it should not exceed 1000°C.
- LiF or metal fluoride is removed in step s40 of washing, Co 3 O 4 is removed in step s50 of annealing.
- the washing and drying steps using a lithium precursor aqueous solution showing basicity in an aqueous solution are safe and inexpensive, and can remove LiF or metal fluoride without loss of other elements, prevent elution of transition metals, etc. It has the advantage of compensating for lithium loss.
- the annealing step is also safe and inexpensive, Co 3 O 4 can be effectively removed and the cell characteristics of the reused active material can be recovered by improving crystal structure recovery, that is, crystallinity.
- the LiF content on the surface of the recovered active material can be adjusted to less than 500 ppm, and thus the capacity improvement effect can be seen.
- the F content may be 100 ppm or less. More preferably, the F content may be 30 ppm or less.
- the reusable active material obtained according to the present invention may have a particle size distribution similar to that of the active material existing in the active material layer in the positive electrode scrap, so that a separate treatment may not be required. Since the carbon component generated by the binder or the conductive material does not remain on the surface, a step or the like for removing the carbon component is not required. Accordingly, the active material obtained through the method of FIG. 2 may be reused as it is without additional treatment and used to manufacture the positive electrode.
- 100% of the reusable active material can be used as it is without adjusting the composition, or it can be mixed with fresh LCO and mixed with a conductive material, a binder, and a solvent to make a slurry and use it.
- the cell characteristics of the regenerated active material can be recovered by recovering the crystal structure through annealing.
- the process unit cost can be lowered by recycling the cathode active material from the waste cathode scrap generated in the secondary battery production stage.
- Each positive electrode active material was prepared in the same manner as in Examples and Comparative Examples below, and electrochemical performance was evaluated.
- the positive electrode scrap to be discarded after the positive electrode plate was punched was prepared, and the heat treatment in step s30 was performed at 600° C. for 30 minutes.
- the washing of step s40 was performed for 10 minutes using LiOH.
- step s50 annealing was carried out at 750° C. in air for 15 hours without additional lithium precursor addition.
- Comparative Example 1 Fresh LCO was used instead of a reused active material.
- Comparative Example 2 Only the heat treatment of step s30 of the active material reuse method of the present invention as described above was performed to remove the binder, the conductive material, and the Al current collector, and the LCO active material was collected. Step s30 was performed under the same conditions as in Example. In the active material reuse method of the present invention, the surface modification of step s40 and the crystal structure recovery of step s50 were not performed.
- Comparative Example 3 It is the same as the method of Comparative Example 2, but only the heat treatment time in the heat treatment step s30 was carried out for 5 hours.
- Comparative Example 4 In Comparative Example 2, the LCO active material was collected by performing the surface modification of step s40 of the active material reuse method of the present invention as described above. That is, the surface modification was performed, but the crystal structure recovery of step s50 in the active material reuse method of the present invention was not performed. Step s40 was performed under the same conditions as in Example.
- ND means measured 30 ppm or less. Referring to Table 1, it can be seen that the F content in the recovered positive active material was significantly lowered in Example compared to Comparative Example 2. That is, it can be confirmed that LiF is completely dissolved in the lithium compound aqueous solution by washing and removed to the extent that it cannot be detected by ICP. Therefore, it can be seen that the LiF removal is excellent by step s40.
- Comparative Example 1 the fresh active material used in this experiment further contained Al.
- Comparative Example 2 it can be seen that the Al content does not change even through heat treatment, and the Al content is maintained in Comparative Examples 4 and Examples further including subsequent process steps.
- LiF or metal fluoride can be removed without loss of other elements such as Al, and elution of transition metals can be prevented.
- FIG. 3 is a result of cell evaluation using the active materials of Examples and Comparative Examples. At different currents, the rate performance was examined by evaluating the capacity according to the number of cycle repetitions.
- the equipment used for evaluation is a general charging/discharging test device that is well used in the laboratory. There is no deviation depending on the measuring device or method.
- the horizontal axis indicates the number of cycles and the vertical axis indicates capacity.
- the voltage was set to 3 ⁇ 4.5V, and the initial formation charge/discharge was performed at 0.2C/0.2C.
- Comparative Example 2 although it is a reusable active material, the lowest rate performance can be confirmed in Comparative Example 2 in which surface modification and crystal structure recovery according to the present invention are not performed.
- the high-temperature heat treatment process such as step s30, as the binder and the conductive material are removed as CO 2 and H 2 O, it reacts with lithium on the surface of the positive electrode active material to form Li 2 CO 3 , LiOH, and also reacts with F present in the binder. This is because LiF or metal fluoride is formed on the surface of the reusable active material.
- it is judged to show low battery characteristics due to Co 3 O 4 generated by thermal decomposition on the LCO surface.
- Comparative Example 4 the surface modification was performed compared to Comparative Example 2. Comparative Example 4 is evaluated to be able to obtain better results than Comparative Example 2 because the reactants generated on the surface were removed through washing.
- Example 4 compared to Comparative Example 4, annealing was performed. It is confirmed that the modified structure and Co 3 O 4 that may appear on the surface of the active material during regeneration are reduced back to the LCO crystal structure, showing improved results compared to the initial properties of the fresh active material of Comparative Example 1.
- the active material can be recovered from the cathode scrap to a level that can be directly reused. It is safe because it does not use toxic and explosive solvents such as NMP, DMC, acetone, and methanol, and it is suitable for mass production because it uses simple and safe methods such as heat treatment, washing and drying, and annealing.
- the XPS pattern is an XPS pattern of the active materials of Examples and Comparative Examples.
- the horizontal axis is the binding energy (unit: eV).
- the XPS pattern can be obtained using a general XPS measuring device that is well used in the laboratory. For example, it can be analyzed using K-Alpha from Thermo Fisher Scientific. F present in the binder reacts with Li of the active material during the heat treatment process to form LiF. In FIG. 4 , a peak near 684 eV is indicated by LiF, and the higher the intensity according to the sample, the greater amount of LiF is present on the surface of the positive electrode active material. Since the XPS pattern of Comparative Example 1 was measured using fresh LCO, the presence of LiF was not measured.
- Comparative Example 2 the presence of LiF formed on the surface of the active material during the heat treatment process can be confirmed.
- Comparative Example 3 since the heat treatment time was increased to 5 hours, the generation of F was increased compared to Comparative Example 2, and the amount of LiF generated on the surface of the active material was increased. Therefore, the LiF peak intensity of XPS was higher than that of Comparative Example 2 do. Since the amount of LiF present on the surface of the active material causes deterioration of electrode properties, it is necessary to remove LiF. In Example 2, compared to Comparative Example 2, LiF was removed by washing, and it can be confirmed that the peak of LiF does not appear in the XPS result.
- the XRD pattern is an XRD pattern of the active materials of Examples and Comparative Examples.
- the horizontal axis is 2 ⁇ (Theta) (degrees), and the vertical axis is intensity.
- the XRD pattern was obtained using a general X-ray diffraction apparatus well used in the laboratory. For example, it can be analyzed using an X-ray diffractometer XG-2100 manufactured by Rigaku. However, there is no deviation depending on the device or method.
- Fig. 5 (a) is an XRD pattern of Comparative Example 1, that is, fresh LCO.
- (b) is the XRD pattern of the active material of Comparative Example 2
- (c) is the XRD pattern of the active material of Comparative Example 3.
- (d) is an XRD pattern of the active material of Example. Comparing (b) and (c) with (a), the Co 3 O 4 phase generated during the heat treatment process is confirmed. Co 3 O 4 is generated on the surface of the active material, that is, the surface of LCO during the heat treatment process. As such, it can be confirmed that Co 3 O 4 is generated on the surface of the LCO in the heat treatment process of step s30.
- the active material can be recovered from the cathode scrap to a level that can be directly reused.
- Figure 6 (a) is a SEM photograph of the fresh LCO of Comparative Example 1
- (b) is a SEM photograph of the reused active material of Example.
- the recovered LCO of the example also shows the same shape.
- the binder and the conductive material were removed during the high-temperature heat treatment process. Therefore, it can be seen that the active material is separated from the current collector only by heat treatment in air, and almost no binder or conductive material remains on the surface of the active material.
- FIG. 7 is a particle size distribution graph of the active materials of Examples and Comparative Examples.
- the particle size distribution can be obtained with a general particle size analyzer well used in the laboratory. For example, it can be measured using a Horiba LA 950V2 particle size analyzer. However, there is no deviation depending on the measuring device or method.
- the horizontal axis represents particle size (um) and the vertical axis represents volume %.
- the cathode scrap can be reused using a simple, eco-friendly, and economical method, and even if a lithium secondary battery is manufactured by reusing the LCO cathode active material prepared in this way, there is no problem in the performance of the battery. .
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- (a)집전체 상에 리튬 코발트 산화물 양극 활물질층을 포함하는 양극 스크랩을 공기 중 열처리하여 상기 활물질층 안의 바인더와 도전재를 열분해함으로써, 상기 집전체를 상기 활물질층으로부터 분리하고 상기 활물질층 안의 활물질을 회수하는 단계;(b)회수된 활물질을 수용액 상태에서 염기성을 보이는 리튬 전구체 수용액을 이용하여 세척하고 건조하는 단계; 및(c)세척된 활물질에 추가적인 리튬 전구체 첨가없이 어닐링하여 재사용 가능한 활물질을 얻는 단계를 포함하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 열처리는 300 ~ 650℃에서 1시간 이내로 수행하는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 리튬 전구체 수용액은 0% 초과 15% 이하의 리튬 전구체를 함유하도록 제조되고, 상기 세척은 10분 이내로 수행하는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 세척은 상기 회수된 활물질을 상기 리튬 전구체 수용액 함침과 동시에 교반하여 수행하는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제3항에 있어서, 상기 리튬 전구체는 LiOH를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 세척을 통해 상기 활물질층에 사용된 원재료 활물질 안의 리튬과 다른 금속의 비율 대비해서 손실된 리튬 비율 만큼이 첨가되는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 어닐링은 400 ~ 1000℃, 공기 중에서 수행하는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 어닐링하는 단계의 온도는 상기 리튬 전구체의 녹는점을 초과하는 온도인 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 활물질층 안의 활물질은 분말 형태로 회수되며 상기 바인더나 도전재의 탄화로 생기는 탄소 성분이 표면에 남아 있지 않는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 재사용 가능한 활물질은 상기 활물질층 안의 활물질과 유사한 입도 분포를 가지는 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서, 상기 재사용 가능한 활물질은 플루오린(F)의 함량이 100 ppm 이하인 것을 특징으로 하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
- (a)집전체 상에 리튬 코발트 산화물 양극 활물질층을 포함하는 양극에서 양극판을 타발하고 남은 부분인 양극 스크랩을 공기 중 300 ~ 650℃에서 1시간 이내로 열처리하여 상기 활물질층 안의 바인더와 도전재를 열분해함으로써, 상기 집전체를 상기 활물질층으로부터 분리하고 상기 활물질층 안의 활물질을 회수하는 단계;(b)회수된 활물질을 수용액 상태에서 염기성을 보이며 0% 초과 15% 이하의 리튬 전구체를 함유하고 있는 리튬 전구체 수용액을 이용하여 10분 이내로 세척하고 건조하는 단계; 및(c)세척된 활물질에 추가적인 리튬 전구체 첨가없이 400 ~ 1000℃ 공기 중에서 어닐링하는 단계를 포함하는 양극 활물질 재사용 방법.
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