hi is has to do with you production. she has a hands on business. so really indeed, the snow on youtube. this little part of good was once an electric. com. that's where you can. ford went through all that the and know you have all the good stuff, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get companies problem is they can make this work recovering more than 90 percent of materials from old lithium ion batteries and reciting them into new ones. and that's great news because we have more and more electric costs hitting the streets. so we need more and more batteries. and so those we need more and more resources. and recycling is better than mining new materials and throwing

them away. but how does it work exactly, and does it work at scale? to find out, we initially hope to fill them with a battery, restock, and company in europe, but the pod from releasing promo foot. it's like this. the industry seems pretty secretive. thankfully the recipes are much more open, which is why we came to the same class to hear the focus is on metal recovery. it's just the perfect fit for us. but before we go in, i'll give you a quick rundown of how a carpet 3 turns into a small piece of dust. there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken apart. this is done by hand, which means it's expensive, but we'll get to that later. to the best read then gets shredded. the liquid pods get expected and different methods of grinding and sifting. leave you with these

base materials, metals from the battery, housing, plastic and the bits of aluminum and copper. but the stuff that everybody is after is this black mass. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coble, nickel and manganese, but also graphite. and that's why it's black, and today we're going to get all of them out of there, but that's not my job. but there's, this is new. come to a doctor research a add to close. todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this on a larger scale. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is supposed to look like in metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so while we're doing now with the black moss, so low, we're going into the leasing operation with the blackness. so we are bringing all the valuable levels we have on the blackness into solution. the metal way off today

is cold to bring that out. mike is using so far it as a, as a solvent. pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch i was going, it would instantly costs a via buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other that's where your 2nd method. so far it as it seems, a toxic, tense, the bend to lights up. but this entire process is perfect. so getting rid of impurities that are still in the black mazda of the old, of shredding and sifting mainly aluminum and cover. as a 2nd step, the black mazda also gets filtered. lucas, best throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this. might sift posts of solvents in which black mosque is processed. so from what we're seeing here, the exhaust gas a seem to be

a bit of an issue was always in with there. we're having kind of kind of in a small issue of this. so depending on this of we'll see our leasing move, for example, in our case. so for rick, us with you might have some evolution of h to s. so, and maybe also some if age of formation. so this was kind of problematic and definitely something you need to look into when you're going into i'm good. and we also have the assets of solven's and the leads and stuff like that. and there's also not that great for the environment. is there a way to approach that differently actually there at the moment upcoming resources for organic us with some of the reading assets which are also very vital complet table of the environment. so normally you though quite homeless, but the research is in a way, way not that of on sort of stadium as of the snow. and if you don't look cautiously, you get headlines like this. some gill, high tech specter in hungary recorded high levels of cancer, causing heavy metals in the had difficulties filtering it's exhaust gases by

and by mental benefits of recycling. so many things to consider and we're not even halfway done. our black moss is no edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the cold in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to doc blue. it's like so blue, it almost looks like ink because like right with that. and it's this dark blue pod actually that the cold sticks to to get a higher concentration of cobalt. we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the cobalt is in the dock, a red is pa spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course need to get it out of the sullivan. you can do that by using it up as you would at industry scale or a little quick kind of small left like this with yet another solvent. really can

see the crystals a lots here they even accumulate. so that's a bottom like how much coal is that now from the by mass isn't here? well, actually of, of this technique we are able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course the, you and we also run the run through the problem that and let scale. we are only doing those invest, explain them. so step by step, very common study, but in industry you went through the money. so you have the, you are having a continuous process and handling and continuous process, move all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging because that's what other research as say, as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions, which you don't always find in the real well, if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult. and that's what it comes down to with recycling. one thing is to make it work technologically. a completely

different thing is to make money from it. and that's where the industry faces its biggest challenges. remember how i said that batteries have to be taken apart by. and that's because every manufacturer boots them a little bit differently. this means machines con, currently do all of the job and that drives up costs. so does the most expensive part of the process, the hydro metallurgical recycling. and there is another factor that makes it hard to turn a profit the more difficult forward comes in from one of the to the, to in the market because it is in the middle of market. you have a lot of speculation and you can see, for instance, this in price is one year back. i don't know the exact number by heart, but one year back. i think it was a time saw you have 10 times 5 inches. i crazy prices this as you have quotes from b a s s. they just opened up that prototype. black mosse, refining plant in germany. this yeah. and plan to scale up the technology further

attended to you in the market. this is a stress to everybody who minds who cycles right now. the prices are quite new, which is a challenge for everybody who wants to reduce investment. basically if price is a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of tax rate. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the material. this is hands, eric melanie. he's been analyzing the ends of lock. that's remarket for yes. so if you get material free and then you process it, then sell it to market price, you able to use it and make a lot of money and you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if we select those, what need to pay for the batteries? the economics get shaky. this could mean recycling is more expensive than just

mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size ponds. another challenge, other materials used in the battery itself. it could be a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide, lithium, the cold, cold, many um for lithium, nickel, manganese, cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or aids. 2121, and it's the wild west out there when it comes to bed 3 manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build, tailored commercial plots. you have to build them for the largest possible amount of the individual material. like, because i think of a long one, for instance, the race to, to the other components. you have to have a really huge make a separate. whereas if you're having 111, you have to be able to precipitate

a lot of cool. but then you have to have a use separate of course, you have to be pretty robust and that's of course driving costs, which means that some other nice is from some going. where is it to use predicted the cost of associates probably the wrong because they might go to the bottom line is in the real world, recycling is much, much harder then on paper a. another problem for recycling batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process. itself but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought. busy and off so that they get used for all kinds of other things like storing renewable energy, which means that um does money batteries to be recycled on the left scale recycling batteries. there's no issue at all 99 percent cobalt because it's insane . but on a commercial scale, not so much info that for example, well,

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