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GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Advanced sustainable and safe pre-processing technologies for End-of-Life (EoL) battery recycling (Batt4EU Partnership)

Summary

This clusters aims to fight climate change by better understanding its causes, evolution, risks, impacts and opportunities, and by making the energy and transport sectors more climate and environment-friendly, more efficient and competitive, smarter, safer and more resilient.

 

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Call

Advanced sustainable and safe pre-processing technologies for End-of-Life (EoL) battery recycling (Batt4EU Partnership)

Detailed Call Description

Other no-Co battery contents need to be extracted in one go to develop recycling processes with economic, societal and environmental perspectives. They, for instance, include low-density plastics, metal shells and foils, binders, separators, organic solvents, Li salt, anode active materials. Successful separation methods have the potential to enrich the constituent of targeted materials and improve the profit for recycling.

In recent years, several pre-treatment processes were tested at least at lab-scale (usually mechanical, thermal and chemical options).

The following pre-treatment concepts are expected to be addressed:

  • Battery sorting at component level that should be more efficient, accurate, also including recommendations for the standardisation of labelling of battery components, due to the huge variation of physical configurations, cell types and chemistries, with the aim of re-using the suitable components.
  • Advanced pre-processing methods including (but not limited to) physical, mechanical, dry, thermal and aqueous pre-treatment methods that allow improved pre-concentration while minimising as much as possible waste side products.
  • Process design enabling the recovery and valorisation of anode materials.
  • Electrolyte valorisation through the development of sustainable and safe processes for the recovery of Li-salts.
  • Separation of all the strategic battery materials that should be integrated into existing/innovative recycling processes to mitigate potential effect of impurities.
  • Recovery of electrode current collectors (Al and Cu) that should be improved by developing more efficient separation methods of the metal foils from the electrode materials and easier removal of the organic binder.
  • Other recoverable not-active materials from the EoL battery (solvent as EC, DEC, DMC, binders, separator).
  • Pre-assessing concepts by their life cycle sustainability and safety impacts and studying overall techno-economical solutions for recovery systems in order to minimize cost, environmental impact and system losses.

    • Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

    100%

    Expected EU contribution per project: €‎8.00 million

    Eligibility For Participation Notes

    If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

    Programme Category
    EU Competitive Programmes
    Total Budget
    €16.00 million
    Thematic Categories
    • Energy
    • Environment and Climate Change
    • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
    Eligibility for Participation
    • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
    Call Opening Date
    07/12/2023
    Call Closing Date
    18/04/2024
    National Contact Point(s)

    Research and Innovation Foundation

    29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
    P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
    Telephone: +357 22205000
    Fax: +357 22205001
    Email: support@research.org.cy
    Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/

    Contact Persons:
    Mr Christakis Theocharous
    Scientific Officer A’
    Telephone: +357 22 205 029
    Email: ctheocharous@research.org.cy

    Mr George Christou
    Scientific Officer
    Telephone: +357 22 205 030
    Email: gchristou@research.org.cy

    EU Contact Point

    https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en

    Website
    Funding&Tenders Work Programme 2023-2024 - Climate, Energy and Mobility, p.122
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