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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Toxco, Inc., Anaheim, CA (US);
Inventors:
W. Novis Smith, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Scott Swoffer, New Castle, DE (US);
Assignee:
Retriev Technologies Incorporated, Anaheim, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 3/44 (2006.01); C22B 59/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided a process for recovering ABalloy from spent nickel hydride storage batteries and/or their cells without thermal melting or dissolving the ABalloy. The process comprises a step of dissolving the Ni(OH)and separating ABalloy and still containing the lanthanum metal.