Battery Technology + Energy Storage
Industrialization of electrochemical regeneration of sodium sulphate effluent from lithium-ion battery manufacturing
THE SOLUTION
Enabling sustainability in lithium battery manufacturing through circular processing.
NESI’s innovation eliminates liquid effluent, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and enables a circular economy for battery metal refining and recycling worldwide. Using electrochemical salt-splitting, NESI converts the liquid effluent waste from traditional lithium refining, manufacturing, and recycling processes into valuable chemicals with the NORSCAND® Electrolyser. This process ensures production with minimal environmental footprint, and can potentially eliminate up to 22 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.
CICE’s funding will support NESI in validating Ionomr’s ionic membrane technology for the industrial-scale electrochemical regeneration of sodium sulfate effluent from lithium-ion battery manufacturing.
- PROJECT STATUS
- Active
- PROJECT CATEGORY
- Battery + Energy Storage
- FUNDING RECIPIENT
- NORAM Electrolysis Systems Inc. (NESI)
- CICE FUNDING AMOUNT
- $947,500
- PROJECT VALUE
- $1,946,050
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“As the world transitions towards electrification of mobility it is crucial that the refining processes to produce the required critical minerals are sustainable and emissions free. Recycling of sodium sulphate, which is a liquid effluent from traditional lithium refining, enables the regeneration of valuable chemical reagents for re-use in the refining process. This eliminates the entire chemical reagent supply chain and the associated emissions. The funding from CICE will enable NESI to progress the technology from pilot scale to full industrial scale to start solving the sodium sulphate challenge at production levels to have a meaningful impact in the near-term”
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