Review on clean recovery of discarded/spent lead-acid battery and trends of recycled products

Abstract Emissions of lead particulates, sulfur oxides and their potential environmental risks are received great attention in traditional pyrometallurgical process for recycling spent lead-acid battery. In recent years, environmentally-friendly processes operating at near ambient temperatures show a good prospect for the recovery of spent lead-acid batteries, including electrowinning, organic acid leaching-calcination, and alkaline leaching-crystallization processes. The recovered products such as leady oxide (mixture of PbO and metallic Pb) and pure lead oxide from hydrometallurgical processes could be directly re-utilized as active materials in manufacturing of new batteries. A hydrometallurgical recovery route can eliminate the smelting procedure for lead ingot production and the following steps of Ball-milling or Barton liquid lead atomizing for leady oxide production in conventional lead mass flow from spent lead-acid battery to new lead-acid battery. Two technological challenges in hydrometallurgical recovery process for spent lead-acid battery are recognized as: removal of impurity elements (such as Fe and Ba) and loop reuse for reducing dosage of leaching reagents. Bibliometric analysis of recovery of spent lead-acid battery based on recent publications from 1987 to 2018 shows that the organic acid leaching-calcination process is the most frequently published technology in hydrometallurgical processes, meanwhile leady oxide and lead oxide are the most recovered products.

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