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Basf Corporation

Wolfgang Rohde

Martin Lux

Shahram Mihan

Kerstin Schierle-Arndt

Torben Adermann

Igor Shishkov

Dieter Lilge

Andreas Deckers

Guido Funk

Peter Bauer

Regina Vogelsang

Alexej Michailovski

Bernhard Schuler

Paulus De Lange

Heinz Vogt

Reinhold Rieger

Roland Saive

Peter Kölle

Oliver Kuhn

Jochem Henkelmann

Otto Machhammer

Marc Oliver Kristen

Rainer Karer

Manfred Stroezel

Guenther Schweier

Goetz-Peter Schindler

Sven Crone

Thomas Kessler

Manfred Hecker

Sirus Zarbakhsh

Stefan Bitterlich

Achim Loeffler

Sabine Weiguny

Hans-Helmut Goertz

Ansgar Gereon Altenhoff

Torsten Mäurer

Ralf Boehling

Knut Oppenl&auml;nder

Georg Degen

Piyada Charoensirisomboon

Carsten Oost

Carsten Sueling

Norbert Güntherberg

Hans-Guenter Wagner

Christian Miller

Tobias Rosendahl

Hans-Helmut Görtz

Alfred Thome

Armin Lange

Heino Sommer

Bernhard Springholz

Birgit Gerke

Jörg Schnorr

Andreas Wüst

Andreas Haufe

David Johann Gilbert

Michael Mentges

Roger Weinlein

Andreas Luz

Fabian Seeler

Rainer Sattel

Jörg Meyer

Matthias Voges

Rodrigo Enrique Munizaga

Frank Edelmann

Ulrike Reissmann

Markus Schmitt

Andreas Kempter

Thomas Michael Ryll

Nuria Huguet Subiela

Udo Handrich

Beatrice Röβler-Feigel

Martin W Kraus

Mario Emmeluth

Christoph Erk

Isa Alexandra Queiroz Da Fonseca

Michael Zeilinger

Qiang Miao

Christian Baltes

Gerardo Incera Garrido

Hans-Helmut G&ouml;rtz

Lutz-Gerd Heinicke

Thomas Holtmann

Sonja Giesa

Gauthier Luc Maurice Averlant

Dieter Boes

Laurent Deloux

Florian Blasberg

Jochen Buerkle

Ilka Beuermann

Beatrice Rössler-Feigel

Eckhard Sausen

Ruger Schlund

Markus H&ouml;lzle

Ronald Adelmann

Darren Megaw

David J Gilbert

Wilfried Berning

Anke Bold

Neil Nadalin

A process for the recovery of lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts thereof is disclosed. The process comprising the steps of A) providing a crude lithium hydroxide as a solid, which contains fluoride; and (B) dissolving the crude lithium hydroxide solid with a lower alcohol such as methanol or ethanol provides good separation of lithium in high purity.

Process for the purification of lithium salts

The present invention relates to a process for the recovery of transition metals from battery materials comprising (0.1) providing a battery material which comprises oxidic nickel and/or cobalt compounds, (1.1) heating the battery material above 350° C. to yield a reduced material which contains nickel and/or cobalt in elemental form, (2.1) carbonylating the reduced material with carbon monoxide optionally in the presence of a reactive gas to yield a solid carbonylation residue and a volatile carbonyl which comprises nickel and/or cobalt carbonyl containing compounds, and (3.1) separating the volatile carbonyl from the solid carbonylation residue by evaporation.

Battery recycling by reduction and carbonylation

A process for the recovery of lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts thereof is disclosed. The process comprising the steps of (a) providing a particulate material containing a transition metal compound and/or transition metal, wherein the transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ni and Co, and wherein further at least a fraction of said Ni and/or Co, if present, are in an oxidation state lower than +2, and at least a fraction of said Mn, if present, is manganese(II)oxide; which particulate material further contains a lithium salt and a fluoride salt, and which particulate material optionally contains calcium provided that the element ratio calcium to fluorine is 1.7 or less or is zero; (b) treating the material provided in step (a) with a polar solvent and an alkaline earth hydroxide; and (c) separating the solids from the liquid, optionally followed by washing the solid residue with a polar solvent such as water provides good separation of lithium in high purity, and recovery of valuable transition metals.

Process for the recovery of lithium from waste lithium ion batteries

Disclosed herein is a process for the recovery of one or more transition metals and lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts thereof. The process includes the steps of (a) providing a particulate material containing a transition metal compound and/or transition metal; (b) treating the material provided in step (a) with a polar solvent and optionally an alkaline earth hydroxide, (c) separating the solids from the liquid, optionally followed by a solid-solid separation step; and (d) treating the solids containing the transition metal in a way to dissolve at least part of the Ni and/or Co. The process provides good separation of lithium in high purity and of transition metal useful for the production of battery cathode active materials.

Process for the recovery of lithium and other metals from waste lithium ion batteries

Process for the recovery of transition metal from spent lithium ion batteries containing nickel, wherein said process comprises the steps of (a) heating a lithium containing transition metal oxide material to a temperature in the range of from 400 to 1200° C., (b) treating said heat-treated material with water, (c) treating the solid residue from step (b) with an acid selected from sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, methanesulfonic acid, oxalic acid and citric acid, (d) adjusting the pH value to 2.5 to 8, (e) removing compounds of Al, Cu, Fe, Zn or combinations of at least two of the foregoing from the solution or slurry obtained in step (d).

Process for the recovery of lithium and transition metal using heat

Process for the recovery of transition metal from spent lithium ion batteries containing nickel, wherein said process comprises the steps of (a) heating a lithium containing transition metal oxide material to a temperature in the range of from 200 to 900° C. in the presence of H, (b) treatment of the product obtained in step (a) with an aqueous medium, (c) solid-solid separation for the removal of Ni from the solid residue of step (b), (d) recovery of Li as hydroxide or salt from the solution obtained in step (b), (e) extraction of Ni and, if applicable, Co from the solid Ni-concentrate obtained in step (c).

Process for the recycling of spent lithium ion cells

A process for concentrating desired particles containing a carrier-magnetic-separation with the following steps, providing a feedstock which contains the desired particles; adding hydrophobic magnetic particles to the feedstock which results in a loaded feedstock containing agglomerates of the magnetic particles and the desired particles or of the magnetic particles and the undesired material; separating the agglomerates from the loaded feedstock by a separation method which results in isolated agglomerates, breaking up the isolated agglomerates to obtain a suspension having magnetic particles in de-agglomerated form; and separating the magnetic particles from the suspension obtained in step d) by a separation method and provided that at least one separation method is a magnetic separation, and where the process has at least one further separation and where the further separation is s sorting, electric separation, screening, classification, gravity concentration, and flotation.

Combination of carrier-magnetic-separation and a further separation for mineral processing

A process for concentrating graphite particles comprising a) providing a feedstock which contains the graphite particles and an undesired material, b) adding hydrophobic magnetic particles to the feedstock which results in a loaded feedstock containing agglomerates of the magnetic particles and the graphite particles, and c) separating the agglomerates from the loaded feedstock by a magnetic field which results in isolated agglomerates.

Concentrating graphite particles by agglomeration with hydrophobic magnetic particles

The present invention relates to a process for separating at least one first material from a mixture comprising this at least one first material, at least one second material and at least one third material, which comprises at least the following steps: (A) providing a mixture comprising at least one first material, at least one second material, at least one third material and at least one hydrocarbon in an amount of more than 0.4% by weight, based on the sum of mixture, in the presence or 10 absence of at least one dispersion medium, (B) if appropriate, addition of at least one dispersion medium to the mixture obtained in step (A) in order to obtain a dispersion, (C) treatment of the dispersion from step (A) or (B) with at least one hydrophobic magnetic particle, so that the at least one first material and the at least one magnetic particle agglomerate, (D) separation of the adduct from step (C) from the mixture by application of a magnetic field, (E) if appropriate, dissociation of the adduct which has been separated off in step (D) in order to obtain the at least one first material and the at least one magnetic particle separately.

Separation of a mixture using magnetic carrier particles

The present invention relates to a process for the separation of at least one valuable matter containing material from a dispersion comprising said at least one valuable matter containing material and at least one second material. The process according to the present invention comprises at least the steps (A) to (E) and the optional steps (F) to (H) which are described herein.

Concentrate quality

The present invention relates to a process for the separation of at least one hydrophobic or hydrophobized material from a dispersion comprising said at least one hydrophobic or hydrophobized material and at least one second material. The process according to the present invention comprises the steps (A) to (D) which are described herein.

Ultraflotation with magnetically responsive carrier particles

The present invention relates to core-shell-particles, wherein the core comprises at least one metal, or a compound thereof, or a mixture of at least one metal or a compound thereof and at least one semimetal or a compound thereof, and the shell comprises at least one silicon comprising polymer, to a process for the preparation of these core-shell-particles, to the use of these core-shell-particles in an agglomeration-deagglomeration process, in particular in chemical, physical or biological test methods or separation processes, decontamination processes, water purification, recycling of electrical/electronic scrap or gravity separation, and to a process for separating at least one first material from a mixture comprising this at least one first material and at least one second material.

Silicon comprising polymer coated particles

The present invention relates to a porous inorganic body comprising pores A having a pore size Sin the range of from 0.005 to 20 micrometer and a total pore volume V, and comprising pores B having a pore size Sin the range of from more than 20 to 1000 micrometer and a total pore volume V, wherein the total pore volume of the pores having a pore size in the range of from 0.005 to 1000 micrometer is Vand wherein the ratio R=V/Vis in the range of from 0.3 to 0.7 as determined via mercury intrusion porosimetry.

Porous inorganic body

In a process for the cooligomerization of olefins, an olefin starting material comprising olefins having n carbon atoms and olefins having 2n carbon atoms is reacted over an olefin oligomerization catalyst to give a reaction product. The process is carried out under such conditions that the conversion of olefins having 2n carbon atoms is less than 10%. Both the cooligomer having 3n carbon atoms and the olefin having 2n carbon atoms which has been separated off from the reaction product have a high hydroformylatability.

Process for the cooligomerization of olefins

The invention relates to a method for conditioning double metal catalysts which are used in the production of polyether polyols. The conditioning enhances the performance of the catalyst, so that lower concentrations of the DMC catalyst can be used in polyether polyol production.

Conditioning of double metal cyanide catalysts

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Wolfgang Rohde