Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides a method for regenerating a positive electrode material of a lithium ion battery, a positive electrode material and a lithium ion battery, so as to solve the above problems or at least partially solve the above problems.
In a first aspect, the present invention provides a method for regenerating a lithium ion battery cathode material, comprising the following steps:
crushing the positive plate of the waste battery to obtain a powder material;
calcining the powder material at 490-520 ℃ for 1-2 h to obtain a precursor;
and mixing the precursor with a lithium source, uniformly ball-milling, and calcining to complete the regeneration of the anode material.
Optionally, the lithium ion battery cathode material regeneration method specifically includes: calcining for 4-6 hours at 490-520 ℃, and then calcining for 10-20 hours at 600-1000 ℃.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating the positive electrode material of the lithium ion battery, the positive electrode material in the positive electrode plate of the waste battery includes one of a lithium iron phosphate material, a nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, and a lithium cobaltate material.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating the positive electrode material of the lithium ion battery, the recovered positive electrode material contains a doped aluminum component, and the aluminum comes from an aluminum current collector.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating a positive electrode material of a lithium ion battery, the lithium source includes lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating the lithium ion battery cathode material, the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the metal elements in the precursor to the amount of the lithium source is 1: 0.5-1.5.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating the lithium ion battery positive electrode material, the positive electrode sheet of the waste battery is placed in a ball mill and crushed for 30-60 min to obtain the powder material.
Optionally, in the method for regenerating the lithium ion battery anode material, the precursor and a lithium source are mixed and then placed in a ball mill for ball milling for 30-60 min.
In a second aspect, the invention also provides a positive electrode material prepared by the regeneration method.
In a third aspect, the invention also provides a lithium ion battery, which comprises the cathode material.
Compared with the prior art, the method for regenerating the lithium ion battery anode material has the following beneficial effects:
(1) the method for regenerating the lithium ion battery anode material uses the scrapped lithium ion battery anode plate, directly calcines the anode plate crushed material to obtain the powder material LiaMAlxO2(a < 1), and then adding a lithium source to perform secondary sintering, namely completing the regeneration of the lithium ion battery material, and obtaining the aluminum-doped positive electrode material; by the regeneration method, the separation of the anode active material and the current collector of the waste lithium ion battery is avoided, aluminum is oxidized into trivalent through high temperature and is lithiated together with other metals to form a novel multi-element anode material, the oxidation of trivalent aluminum is weaker than that of other metal ions, the anode active material is prevented from oxidizing electrolyte, the stability of the anode material is improved, and lithium-containing aluminum oxide has excellent lithium ion conductivity and conductivity; the aluminum foil is doped into the active material to form a novel multi-element anode material battery, the material after impurity removal is calcined at high temperature to supplement lithium, and the regenerated multi-element anode material is synthesized, so that the separation and a large number of reaction process are omitted, the conductivity and structural stability of the material are effectively improved, the process flow is simpler, the recovery rate is high, and good economic benefits are realized.
Detailed Description
In the following, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described in conjunction with the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
The invention provides a method for regenerating a lithium ion battery anode material, which comprises the following steps as shown in figure 1:
s1, crushing the positive plate of the waste battery to obtain a powder material;
s2, calcining the powder material at 490-520 ℃ for 1-2 h to obtain a precursor;
and S3, mixing the precursor with a lithium source, uniformly ball-milling, and calcining to complete the regeneration of the anode material.
In the present embodiment, the positive electrode sheet of the waste battery includes an active material, a positive electrode material, a binder, a conductive agent, an aluminum current collector, and the like. The binder is PVDF, the conductive agent adopts a Super-P material, and the active substances are as follows: adhesive: the ratio of the conductive agent is 8:1: 1. The positive electrode material in the positive plate of the waste battery comprises one of lithium iron phosphate, nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary, lithium cobaltate and the like;
in the embodiment of the present application, the lithium source is a lithium-containing compound, and the specific lithium source is lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, or the like.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S1 specifically includes: and (3) disassembling the waste battery to obtain a positive plate, and then placing the positive plate in a ball mill to be crushed for 30min to obtain a powder material.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S2 specifically includes: and calcining the powder material at 500 ℃ for 2h, and removing impurities such as a binder, conductive carbon black and the like in the powder material to obtain a precursor.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S3 specifically includes: and mixing the precursor with a lithium source, placing the mixture in a ball mill for ball milling for 30min, uniformly mixing, calcining at 500 ℃ for 5h, and calcining at 800 ℃ for 15h to obtain the regenerated lithium ion cathode material.
Specifically, in S3, the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the metal elements in the precursor to the amount of the lithium source material is 1:0.5 to 1.5, specifically, if the positive electrode material in the positive electrode sheet is lithium iron phosphate, the metal elements in the precursor are Fe and Al, and the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the Fe and Al to the amount of the Li material in the lithium source ((Fe + Al): Li) is 1:0.5 to 1.5; if the positive electrode material in the positive electrode plate is a nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, the metal elements in the precursor are Ni, Co, Mn and Al, and the ratio of the sum of the mass of the Ni, Co, Mn and Al to the mass of the Li in the lithium source ((Ni + Co + Mn + Al): Li) is 1 (0.5-1.5); when the positive electrode material in the positive electrode sheet is a lithium cobaltate material, the metal elements in the precursor are Co and Al, and the ratio of the sum of the amounts of Co and Al to the amount of Li in the lithium source ((Co + Al): Li) is 1 (0.5 to 1.5).
Specifically, in the positive plate, the positive material is a nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, the lithium source is lithium carbonate, and the ratio of the sum of the amounts of metal element substances in the precursor to the amount of lithium in the lithium source is 1: 1.
The scrapped positive plate (including active material, positive material, binder, conductive agent, aluminum current collector and the like) of the lithium ion battery is used in the application, and the broken material of the positive plate is directly carried outCalcining to obtain powder material LiaMAlxO2(a < 1), and adding a lithium source to perform secondary sintering to complete the regeneration of the lithium ion battery material and obtain the aluminum-doped positive electrode material comprising aluminum lithium iron phosphate (LiAl)xFePO4) Lithium aluminum cobaltate (LiCoAl)xO2) Quaternary nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum (LiNiCoMnAl)xO2) A material; by the regeneration method, the separation of the positive active material and the current collector of the waste lithium ion battery is avoided, and aluminum is oxidized into trivalent through high temperature and is lithiated together with other metals to form a novel multi-element positive material; the aluminum foil is doped into the active material to form a novel multi-element anode material battery, the material after impurity removal is calcined at high temperature to supplement lithium, and the regenerated multi-element anode material is synthesized, so that the separation and a large number of reaction process are omitted, the conductivity and structural stability of the material are effectively improved, the process flow is simpler, the recovery rate is high, and good economic benefits are realized.
At present, one of the existing lithium ion batteries is a nickel-cobalt-aluminum ternary battery, which is widely applied to the field of lithium ion power batteries, so that aluminum element can be used as one of the positive electrode material components. Therefore, the aluminum-containing cathode material prepared by reducing the stripping process of the current collector has important commercial application significance, can greatly solve the pain point in the existing battery material recovery process, namely artificially increasing the stripping and aluminum removing processes, and realizes large-scale and low-cost battery material regeneration and recovery.
Based on the same invention concept, the invention also provides a positive electrode material prepared by the preparation method.
Based on the same inventive concept, the invention also provides a lithium battery which comprises the prepared cathode material.
Example 2
The invention provides a method for regenerating a lithium ion battery anode material, which comprises the following steps as shown in figure 1:
s1, crushing the positive plate of the waste battery to obtain a powder material;
s2, calcining the powder material at 490-520 ℃ for 1-2 h to obtain a precursor;
and S3, mixing the precursor with a lithium source, uniformly ball-milling, and calcining to complete the regeneration of the anode material.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S1 specifically includes: and (3) disassembling the waste battery to obtain a positive plate, and then placing the positive plate in a ball mill to be crushed for 30min to obtain a powder material.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S2 specifically includes: and calcining the powder material at 500 ℃ for 2h, and removing impurities such as a binder, conductive carbon black and the like in the powder material to obtain a precursor.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S3 specifically includes: and mixing the precursor with a lithium source, placing the mixture in a ball mill for ball milling for 30min, uniformly mixing, calcining at 500 ℃ for 5h, and calcining at 800 ℃ for 15h to obtain the regenerated lithium ion cathode material.
Specifically, in S3, in the positive electrode sheet of the present application, the positive electrode material is lithium cobaltate, the lithium source is lithium carbonate, and the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the respective metal element substances in the precursor to the amount of lithium in the lithium source is 1:1, that is, if the metal elements in the precursor are Co and Al, the ratio of the sum of the amounts of Co and Al to the amount of Li in the lithium source ((Co + Al): Li) is 1: 1.
Based on the same invention concept, the invention also provides a positive electrode material prepared by the preparation method.
Based on the same inventive concept, the invention also provides a lithium battery which comprises the prepared cathode material.
Example 3
The invention provides a method for regenerating a lithium ion battery anode material, which comprises the following steps as shown in figure 1:
s1, directly crushing the lithium iron phosphate positive plate of the waste battery to obtain a powder material;
s2, calcining the powder material at 490-520 ℃ for 1-2 h to obtain a precursor;
and S3, mixing the precursor with a lithium source, uniformly ball-milling, and calcining to complete the regeneration of the anode material, thereby obtaining the lithium aluminum iron phosphate material.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S1 specifically includes: and (3) disassembling the waste battery to obtain a positive plate, and then placing the positive plate in a ball mill to be crushed for 30min to obtain a powder material.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S2 specifically includes: and calcining the powder material at 500 ℃ for 2h, and removing impurities such as a binder, conductive carbon black and the like in the powder material to obtain a precursor.
Specifically, in this embodiment of the present application, S3 specifically includes: and mixing the precursor with a lithium source, placing the mixture in a ball mill for ball milling for 30min, uniformly mixing, calcining at 500 ℃ for 5h, and calcining at 900 ℃ for 24h to obtain the regenerated lithium ion cathode material.
Specifically, in S3, in the positive electrode sheet of the present application, the positive electrode material is lithium iron phosphate, the lithium source is lithium carbonate, and the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the respective metal element substances in the precursor to the amount of lithium in the lithium source is 1:1, that is, if the metal elements in the precursor are Fe and Al, the ratio of the sum of the amounts of the Fe and Al substances to the amount of Li in the lithium source ((Fe + Al): Li) is 1: 1.
Based on the same invention concept, the invention also provides a positive electrode material prepared by the preparation method.
Based on the same inventive concept, the invention also provides a lithium battery which comprises the prepared cathode material.
XRD patterns of the nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material in the waste battery used in example 1 and the positive electrode material prepared by the regeneration method in example 1 were respectively tested, and the results are shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3. As can be seen from fig. 2 and 3, fig. 2 shows that after the ternary cathode material undergoes several electrochemical processes, the structure of the material is significantly changed, and therefore, the capacity is attenuated. Fig. 3 shows that the recovery of the doped aluminum is good, and the layered crystal structure of the nickel-cobalt-manganese material is not affected by the doping of the aluminum.
Assembling the positive electrode material prepared by the regeneration method in the embodiment 1 into a lithium ion battery; the charging and discharging curves of the lithium ion battery are tested, and the result is shown in fig. 4; the cycle curve of the lithium ion battery was tested, and the results are shown in fig. 5; it can be known from fig. 4 that the quaternary material obtained by co-regenerating and calcining the waste nickel cobalt lithium manganate ternary material and the aluminum current collector can realize normal charging and discharging, the voltage is high, and the recovered electrode material has stable electrochemical performance as can be known from fig. 5.
Assembling the positive electrode material prepared by the regeneration method in the embodiment 2 into a lithium ion battery; the charging and discharging curves of the lithium ion battery are tested, and the result is shown in fig. 6; the cycling curve of the lithium ion battery was tested and the results are shown in fig. 7; from fig. 6, it can be seen that the lithium cobalt aluminate positive electrode material obtained by doping the aluminum current collector into the lithium cobalt aluminate positive electrode material can exhibit higher charge and discharge voltages and 120mAh g-1As can be seen from fig. 7, the regenerated lithium cobalt aluminate had good charge/discharge stability.
Assembling the positive electrode material prepared by the regeneration method in the embodiment 3 into a lithium ion battery; the charging and discharging curves of the lithium ion battery are tested, and the result is shown in fig. 8; from fig. 8, it can be seen that the aluminum current collector is doped into the lithium iron phosphate positive electrode material to obtain the aluminum-doped lithium iron phosphate positive electrode material, and the material can show higher charging and discharging voltage and show 110mAh g-1The aluminum material does not change the structure of the lithium iron phosphate according to the analysis of the charge-discharge curve, and the capacity performance is better.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.