CN117623301A - Method for recycling graphite negative electrode of waste lithium ion battery - Google Patents

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CN117623301A
CN117623301A CN202311750567.6A CN202311750567A CN117623301A CN 117623301 A CN117623301 A CN 117623301A CN 202311750567 A CN202311750567 A CN 202311750567A CN 117623301 A CN117623301 A CN 117623301A
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The invention provides a method for recycling and regenerating a graphite cathode of a waste lithium ion battery, which comprises the steps of preprocessing the waste lithium ion battery to obtain cathode material powder, carrying out heat treatment on the cathode material powder to oxidize metal impurities in the cathode material powder, leaching the heat-treated graphite cathode material by adopting a deep eutectic solvent formed by mixing choline chloride and glucose, washing solid obtained by solid-liquid separation by using the deep eutectic solvent after leaching reaction, and then directly placing the solid material obtained by washing in inert atmosphere for heat treatment and carbonization to obtain the regenerated graphite cathode material. The recycling method has good economic and environmental benefits, and the obtained regenerated graphite anode material has excellent first coulombic efficiency and long cycle performance.

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Method for recycling graphite negative electrode of waste lithium ion battery
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of recovery and regeneration of waste lithium ion batteries, and particularly relates to a recovery and regeneration method of a graphite negative electrode of a waste lithium ion battery.
Background
The lithium ion battery is widely applied to electronic products such as portable equipment, electric automobiles and the like because of high working voltage, light weight, no memory effect and long cycle service life. Meanwhile, the quantity of the retired waste lithium ion batteries is also increased faster, and the waste lithium ion batteries contain various resources including lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the like, so that the method has high recycling value, and the recovery of key materials (such as graphite, valuable metals and the like) in the retired batteries has great significance for sustainable development such as economic growth, environmental protection and the like.
The main component of the waste lithium ion battery cathode material is graphite, and graphite particles can generate a large amount of structural defects and bulk impurities after undergoing long-term charge and discharge cycles, so that the service life of the battery and other electrochemical performances are greatly influenced. Therefore, how to improve the electrochemical performance of the negative electrode material regenerated from the graphite material in the waste battery is a major problem at present.
In addition, the waste graphite cathode has a high content of metal element impurities, and the conventional impurity treatment mode is mainly acid leaching treatment, but a large amount of acid reagent is easy to cause great pollution to the environment, and the subsequent sewage treatment cost is high, so that the defects of the prior art are needed to be overcome.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problems in the prior art, and therefore, the invention provides a method for recycling and regenerating a graphite negative electrode of a waste lithium ion battery, which comprises the following steps:
(1) Pretreating a waste lithium ion battery to obtain negative electrode material powder;
(2) Carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder in air or oxygen atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder;
(3) Under the water bath condition, mixing and stirring choline chloride and glucose at a molar ratio of 1:1-1:2.5 to obtain a clear and transparent deep eutectic solvent, and dividing the deep eutectic solvent into two parts of a solvent A and a solvent B;
(4) Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening in the step (2) into the solvent A in the step (3), heating, stirring and mixing, leaching out metal oxides in the graphite anode material powder, then carrying out solid-liquid separation, and collecting solids;
(5) And (3) washing the solid in the step (4) by using the solvent B, directly transferring the washed solid into sintering equipment without drying, and performing heat treatment carbonization under inert atmosphere to obtain the regenerated graphite anode material.
Further, the step (1) of pretreating the waste lithium ion battery comprises the steps of disassembling the waste lithium ion battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative electrode plate, soaking the negative electrode plate in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate a copper foil current collector from a negative electrode material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative electrode material to obtain negative electrode material powder.
Further, the temperature of the heat treatment in the step (2) is 300-500 ℃, and the time of the heat treatment is 3-12h.
Further, the particle size of the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening in the step (2) is below 25-70 mu m.
Further, the water bath temperature in the step (3) is 40-60 ℃;
further, the stirring time in the step (3) is 30-60min.
Further, in the step (4), the graphite anode material powder and the solvent A are mixed according to a solid-to-liquid ratio of 10-30 g/L.
Further, in the step (4), the temperature of heating and stirring is 60-250 ℃, and the stirring time is 3-24 hours.
Further, in the step (5), the inert atmosphere is any one or more of helium, argon and nitrogen.
Further, the carbonization temperature of the heat treatment in the step (5) is 2500-3000 ℃, and the heat treatment time is 2-6h.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) When the regenerated graphite anode material is recovered, the deep eutectic solvent prepared by mixing choline chloride and glucose is used as a leaching reagent of metal element impurities, the glucose is used as a hydrogen bond donor, the choline chloride is used as a hydrogen bond acceptor, the metal oxide is well solvated within a certain temperature range, the metal element impurities in the graphite anode material powder can be effectively leached, the purity of the recovered graphite is improved, the impurity removal effect is ensured, meanwhile, acid liquor is avoided, and the sewage treatment burden is reduced.
(2) The invention divides the deep eutectic solvent into two parts, one part is used for removing impurities of metal elements in graphite anode material powder, the other part is used for washing the solid obtained after leaching reaction and solid-liquid separation, and the washing reagent and the leaching reagent are the same deep eutectic solvent, thereby being beneficial to improving the washing effect on the solid.
(3) The method uses the deep eutectic solvent B (i.e. the washing reagent) to wash the leached solid, the choline chloride and the glucose in the deep eutectic solvent are adsorbed on the surface of the solid, the washed solid is directly transferred into sintering equipment without drying, the choline chloride and the glucose adsorbed on the surface of the solid can be used as carbon sources to graphitize at high temperature, and structural defects in a graphite negative electrode can be repaired, so that the electrochemical performance of the recycled graphite negative electrode material is improved.
(4) The graphite anode material obtained by recycling and regenerating has excellent electrochemical performance, good first coulomb efficiency and long-cycle stability.
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Fig. 1 is an SEM image of the regenerated graphite anode material obtained in example 1.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further illustrated by the following examples and comparative examples.
Example 1
And disassembling the waste lithium cobalt oxide battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative plate, soaking the negative plate in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate the copper foil current collector from the negative material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative material to obtain negative material powder. And (3) carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder for 3 hours at 500 ℃ in an air atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening by a screen to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder with the granularity of less than 25 mu m.
Under the water bath condition of 60 ℃, mixing choline chloride and glucose according to the molar ratio of 1:1, and stirring for 30min to obtain a clear and transparent deep eutectic solvent, wherein the deep eutectic solvent is divided into two parts of solvent A and solvent B. Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening into the solvent A, mixing the graphite anode material powder and the solvent A according to a solid-to-liquid ratio of 10g/L, heating to 250 ℃, stirring and mixing for 3 hours, leaching metal oxides in the graphite anode material powder, filtering, and collecting solids; and (3) washing the solid obtained by filtering by using the solvent B, directly transferring the washed solid into a muffle furnace without drying, carrying out heat treatment graphitization at 2500 ℃ in nitrogen atmosphere, and carrying out heat preservation for 6 hours to obtain the regenerated graphite anode material.
The resultant regenerated graphite negative electrode material was analyzed by ICP, and the results are shown in table 1 below.
Table 1 results of ICP analysis of graphite anode material powders
Element(s) Co Cu Li
Impurity content (wt.%) 0.0004 0.0008 0.0013
And the carbon content in the regenerated graphite anode material was 99.7wt.% as detected by a carbon-sulfur analysis apparatus.
Example 2
And disassembling the waste nickel cobalt lithium manganate ternary lithium battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative plate, soaking the negative plate in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate the copper foil current collector from the negative material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative material to obtain negative material powder. And (3) carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder for 12 hours at 300 ℃ in an air atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening by a screen to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder with the granularity of less than 45 mu m.
Under the water bath condition of 50 ℃, mixing choline chloride and glucose according to the molar ratio of 1:2, stirring for 45min to obtain a clear and transparent deep eutectic solvent, and dividing the deep eutectic solvent into two parts of solvent A and solvent B. Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening into the solvent A, mixing the graphite anode material powder and the solvent A according to a solid-to-liquid ratio of 20g/L, heating to 160 ℃, stirring and mixing for 12 hours, leaching metal oxides in the graphite anode material powder, centrifuging and separating, and collecting solids; and (3) washing the solid obtained by centrifugal separation by using a solvent B, directly transferring the washed solid into a muffle furnace without drying, carrying out heat treatment graphitization at 3000 ℃ in nitrogen atmosphere, and carrying out heat preservation for 3 hours to obtain the regenerated graphite anode material.
The resultant regenerated graphite negative electrode material was analyzed by ICP, and the results are shown in table 2 below.
Table 2 results of ICP analysis of graphite anode material powders
Element(s) Co Ni Mn Cu Li
Impurity content (wt.%) 0.0005 0.0004 0.0005 0.0007 0.0016
And the carbon content in the regenerated graphite anode material is 99.5 wt percent by detection of carbon-sulfur analysis equipment.
Example 3
And disassembling the waste lithium manganate battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative plate, soaking the negative plate in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate the copper foil current collector from the negative material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative material to obtain negative material powder. And (3) carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder at 400 ℃ for 6 hours in an air atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening by a screen to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder with the granularity of less than 70 mu m.
Under the water bath condition of 40 ℃, mixing choline chloride and glucose according to the molar ratio of 1:2.5, stirring for 60min to obtain a clear and transparent deep eutectic solvent, and dividing the deep eutectic solvent into two parts of solvent A and solvent B. Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening into the solvent A, mixing the graphite anode material powder and the solvent A according to a solid-to-liquid ratio of 30g/L, heating to 60 ℃, stirring and mixing for 24 hours, leaching metal oxides in the graphite anode material powder, filtering, and collecting solids; and (3) washing the solid obtained by filtering by using the solvent B, directly transferring the washed solid into a muffle furnace without drying, carrying out heat treatment graphitization at 3000 ℃ under the argon atmosphere, and carrying out heat preservation for 4 hours to obtain the regenerated graphite anode material.
The resultant regenerated graphite negative electrode material was analyzed by ICP, and the results are shown in table 3 below.
TABLE 3 ICP analysis results of graphite negative electrode material powder
Element(s) Mn Cu Li
Impurity content (wt.%) 0.0009 0.0006 0.0018
And the carbon content in the regenerated graphite anode material was 99.6wt.% as detected by a carbon-sulfur analysis apparatus.
Comparative example
And disassembling the waste lithium cobalt oxide battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative plate, soaking the negative plate in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate the copper foil current collector from the negative material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative material to obtain negative material powder. And (3) carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder for 3 hours at 500 ℃ in an air atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening by a screen to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder with the granularity of less than 25 mu m.
Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening into 1mol/L hydrochloric acid solution, mixing the graphite anode material powder and the hydrochloric acid solution according to a solid-to-liquid ratio of 10g/L, stirring and mixing for 3h, filtering, and collecting solids; and washing the solid obtained by filtering by using deionized water, directly transferring the washed solid into a muffle furnace without drying, carrying out heat treatment graphitization at 2500 ℃ in nitrogen atmosphere, and carrying out heat preservation for 6 hours to obtain the graphite anode material.
Battery performance test
The graphite anode materials obtained in the above examples 1-3 and comparative example were prepared into electrode slurry, and the slurry ratio was graphite anode materials: binder (PAA): conductive agent (SP) =75: 15:10. the slurry is uniformly stirred and then coated on a copper foil, and then dried in vacuum. Punching the dried electrode slice to obtain a working electrode of the button cell, wherein the lithium slice is used as a counter electrode, and the electrolyte is 1mol/L lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF) 6 ) The volume ratio of the electrolyte to the electrolyte is 1: 1) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) in a solvent. The constant current charge-discharge voltage interval is 0.01-1.5V. The current density used in the first charge-discharge cycle experiment is 0.1C, and the first charge-discharge coulomb efficiency of the battery is tested under the current density; the current density used for the long cycle test was 1C.
The test results are shown in table 4 below.
TABLE 4 Table 4
Specific capacity of initial discharge (mAh.g) -1 First coulombic efficiency Capacity retention after 500 cycles of 1C down cycle
Example 1 356.8 91.3% 95.2%
Example 2 354.3 90.1% 96.4%
Example 3 353.9 92.3% 96.1%
Comparative example 298.6 83.6% 82.5%

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1. The method for recycling the graphite cathode of the waste lithium ion battery is characterized by comprising the following steps of:
(1) Pretreating a waste lithium ion battery to obtain negative electrode material powder;
(2) Carrying out heat treatment on the negative electrode material powder in air or oxygen atmosphere, oxidizing metal impurities in the negative electrode material powder, cooling to room temperature, and screening to obtain graphite negative electrode material powder;
(3) Under the water bath condition, mixing and stirring choline chloride and glucose at a molar ratio of 1:1-1:2.5 to obtain a clear and transparent deep eutectic solvent, and dividing the deep eutectic solvent into two parts of a solvent A and a solvent B;
(4) Adding the graphite anode material powder obtained by screening in the step (2) into the solvent A in the step (3), heating, stirring and mixing, leaching out metal oxides in the graphite anode material powder, then carrying out solid-liquid separation, and collecting solids;
(5) And (3) washing the solid in the step (4) by using the solvent B, directly transferring the washed solid into sintering equipment without drying, and performing heat treatment carbonization under inert atmosphere to obtain the regenerated graphite anode material.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pretreating the waste lithium ion battery in step (1) comprises disassembling the waste lithium ion battery in an argon atmosphere to obtain a negative electrode sheet, immersing the negative electrode sheet in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment to separate a copper foil current collector from a negative electrode material, and filtering, washing and drying the negative electrode material to obtain negative electrode material powder.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the heat treatment in step (2) is performed at a temperature of 300 to 500 ℃ for a time of 3 to 12 hours.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the particle size of the graphite negative electrode material powder obtained by the sieving in step (2) is 25 to 70 μm or less.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the water bath temperature in step (3) is 40-60 ℃.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the stirring in step (3) is for a period of 30 to 60 minutes.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the graphite anode material powder and the solvent a in step (4) are mixed at a solid-to-liquid ratio of 10 to 30 g/L.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the temperature of the heating and stirring in step (4) is 60-250 ℃ and the stirring time is 3-24 hours.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the inert atmosphere in step (5) is any one or more of helium, argon, and nitrogen.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the carbonization temperature of the heat treatment in step (5) is 2500 to 3000 ℃ and the heat treatment time is 2 to 6 hours.
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