On Wednesday, the Indian Institute of Technologies Bombay announced a partnership with Evergreen Lithium Recycling to license technologies and promote the recovery of valuable minerals from recycled batteries. According to a release from IIT Bombay, the deal was inked on May 5. Its goals are to improve the efficiency of battery recycling operations and to speed up the extraction of essential minerals connected to battery precursors.
Working together, we have taken a giant leap toward developing tech-driven, scalable solutions for India’s new circular economy.
Optimisation of processing costs of up to 30–40 percent, enhanced process efficiency, enhanced capacities for urban mining, and resource recovery are all anticipated outcomes of the licensed technology.
This groundbreaking technology was created by a group led by Professor Swatantra Pratap Singh of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. For India’s circular economy, resource security, and sustainable future, waste-to-wealth technologies are becoming more and more important. Prof. Singh announced that his lab is working on cutting-edge membrane and electrochemical methods to extract valuable minerals, nutrients, rare earth elements, acids, and water from wastewater and industrial waste.
