| Partners | 1. ‘the coordinator’: FUNDACION CARTIF (CARTIF), PIC 999929836, established in PQ TECNOLOGICO BOECILLO 205, BOECILLO 47151, Spain, and the following other beneficiaries, if they sign their ‘accession form’ (see Annex 3 and Article 40): 2. ACCUREC-RECYCLING GMBH (AC), PIC 984450188, established in BATAVERSTR 21, KREFELD 47809, Germany, 3. ALIENOREU SPRL (ALIENOREU), PIC 951662442, established in RUE DE L'INDUSTRIE 11, BRUXELLES 1000, Belgium, 4. AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS (AIMPLAS), PIC 999513415, established in VALENCIA PARC TECHNOLOGIC CALLE GUSTAVE EIFFEL 4, PATERNA VALENCIA 46980, Spain, 5. L'ASSOCIATION DES FABRICANTS EUROPEENS D'ACCUMULATEURS AUTOMOBILES ETINDUSTRIELS - EUROBAT (EUROBAT), PIC 904896414, established in AVENUE DE TERVUEREN 188A, BRUSSELS 1150, Belgium, 6. AVL LIST GMBH (AVL), PIC 999952243, established in HANS-LIST-PLATZ 1, GRAZ 8020, Austria, 7. AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC), PIC 999991722, established in CALLE SERRANO 117, MADRID 28006, Spain, 8. ERION ENERGY (ERION), PIC 889429570, established in VIA MESSINA 38, MILANO 20154, Italy, 9. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (Fraunhofer), PIC 999984059, established in HANSASTRASSE 27C, MUNCHEN 80686, Germany, 10. FUNDACIO EURECAT (EURECAT), PIC 928030235, established in AVENIDA UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA 23, CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES (BARCELONA) 08290, Spain, 11. FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L'ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA (IRECCERCA), PIC 996435993, established in C/ JARDINS DE LES DONES DE NEGRE 1, SANT ADRIA DE BESOS 08930, Spain, 12. FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER (FBK), PIC 999625450, established in VIA SANTA CROCE 77, TRENTO 38122, Italy, 13. FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO SUI TRASPORTI E LA LOGISTICA (ITL), PIC 998928990, established in VIALE ALDO MORO 38, BOLOGNA 40127, Italy, 14. L'UREDERRA, FUNDACION PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO Y SOCIAL (LUREDERRA), PIC 998025144, established in ÁREA INDUSTRIAL PERGUITA C/A N°1, LOS ARCOS 31210, Spain, 15. MOV'EO (NextMove), PIC 973854490, established in 50 RUE ETTORE BUGATTI, SAINT ETIENNE DU ROUVRAY 76800, France, 16. NESSTEC ENERJI VE YUZEY TEKNOLOJILERI SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI (NESSTEC), PIC 889419676, established in ESENTEPE MAHALLESI AKADEMIYOLU SOKA LGELERI NO:2 IC KAPI NO:2 SERDIVAN/SAKAR, SAKARYA 54050, Turkey, 17. POLITECNICO DI MILANO (POLIMI), PIC 999879881, established in PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32, MILANO 20133, Italy, 18. SIG DE RAEE Y PILAS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA (RECYCLIA), PIC 917742512, established in C/ORENSE 62, MADRID 28020, Spain, 19. SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI (SAKARYA), PIC 967462481, established in ESENTEPE CAMPUS, SAKARYA 54187, Turkey, 20. TORRECID SA (TORRECID), PIC 960970465, established in PARTIDA TORRETA, ALCORA CASTELLON 12110, Spain, 21. UNIVERSITAET GRAZ (UNIGRAZ), PIC 999873188, established in UNIVERSITATSPLATZ 3, GRAZ 8010, Austria, 22. WATT4EVER (Watt4Ever), PIC 893063190, established in 46 BOULEVARD DE LA WOLUWE, WOLUWE ST LAMBERT 1200, Belgium, |
| Summary | The negative environmental impacts results from the linear ‘take, make, dispose’ and dominant economic models of our time, traditionally adopted by decision-making of main stakeholders around mobility are changing thank to EV's irruption, but Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) are not yet green enough to reduce mobility footprint to lowest levels. Thus, recycling has to be developed to achieve higher efficiencies and recovery rates to reintroduce Critical Raw Materials from End-of-Life (EOL) LIBs. Recycling technology is still at the lab-scale due to the complex structure of EOL LIBs. Currently, pyro-metallurgy is the most applied method in the industry. Although this process does not need pre-treatment, its energy-wasting, the equipment investment is large and it will cause serious pollution. In response to these problems, many companies have developed hydrometallurgical processes, that can recover Li and Al with low energy consumption. However, it requires pre-treatment, leaching, purification and other steps, and it could be a long way. FREE4LIB aims to develop at TRL 5-6 technologies to achieve 6 new sustainable and efficient processes to recycle EOL LIBs (dismantling, pre-treatment and 4 materials recovery processes) delivering innovative recycling solutions to reach highly efficient materials recovery (metal oxides, metals and polymers) improving the supply of secondary resources at EU level. FREE4LIB also will deliver 3 processes aiming at metals and polymers re-using and electrode synthesis for re-manufacturing new LIBs, and it will study options to harness non-reusable elements. It will also deliver a Battery Passport (BP) methodology to improve processes traceability. Besides, 2 Open Platforms will be deployed: BP and Data-driven models for the process’s optimisation. At end, to validate and spread FREE4LIB: new LIBs will be assembled on battery packs and engagement activities with citizens, policymakers and battery stakeholder will be carried out, respectively. |
