處鋰科技 won the gold medal at the 2023 Korea WiC World Innovation and Invention Competition
Chairman Chen Wenxian of 處鋰科技 led the team, using environmentally friendly innovative technology to help Taiwan turn waste lithium batteries into "turning waste into gold". Photo / provided by 處鋰科技
處鋰科技 participated for the first time in the World Innovation and Invention Competition and won the Gold Medal with its original waste lithium battery recycling and processing technology, hailed as a pride of Taiwan; 2023 9th Korea WiC World Innovation and Invention Competition, the Taiwanese entrant 「處鋰科技」participated for the first time and, among fierce competition from participants from 16 countries, won the top Gold Medal in one fell swoop, astonishing everyone; 處鋰科技 has injected the lithium battery recycling and processing industry with a new, more environmentally friendly recycling and processing method through its proprietary innovative technology, and its innovative business model has also attracted significant attention.
Chairman Chen Wenxian of 處鋰科技, after 10 years of effort, successfully developed an innovative "enzyme degradation" method, which is a very environmentally friendly way to recycle and process lithium batteries; in May 2022 the company 處鋰科技 was established and officially entered the waste lithium battery recycling and processing industry with its own patented innovative technology, beginning commercial operations.
Chen Wenxian said that, unlike the physical and chemical treatment methods currently on the market, 處鋰科技's recycling and processing technology uses non-toxic, pollution-free, food-grade enzymes to degrade the toxicity of waste lithium batteries, reducing the toxic substances generated by typical waste lithium battery treatments, and separates various cathode and anode powders as well as other metals and plastic materials for reuse. Currently, the overall waste lithium battery recovery efficiency can reach over 90%, recovering more than 10 types of materials including cathode and anode powders, metals, and plastics.
Among them, the anode powder in the first round of recycling already reaches battery material grade purity and can be used directly in battery manufacturing. In addition, it can be supplied for uses including boiler fuel and thermal power generation, or converted into activated carbon for use in wastewater and air pollution filtration and then used as fuel after use; it can also be made into carbon nanoballs for carbon reduction, which can adsorb atmospheric CO2, giving it a wide range of applications.
The decomposed cathode powder, due to the uniqueness of the recovery processing method, yields powders different from those produced by general physical and chemical decomposition; the purity is sufficient for use as regenerated cathode material, and it can also be supplied to refiners for precious metal extraction, improving refining efficiency.
As Taiwan's new pioneer in waste lithium battery recycling and processing, 處鋰科技's innovative recycling and processing method not only increases recovery rates to achieve circular use of recycled materials, but the process is completely environmentally friendly and non-toxic, meeting global industrial and commercial demands for ecological friendliness. The circular use of recycled materials can also help enterprises achieve ESG energy-saving and carbon-reduction goals.
By Zhang Bingfeng