{"id":11675,"date":"2023-06-04T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2025-03-30T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:32:11","slug":"li-ion-battery-recycling-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/li-ion-battery-recycling-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Li-ion Battery Recycling Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Li-ion battery recycling technology:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>indigenously developed technology<\/strong> that could process assorted types of discarded Li-ion batteries.<\/li>\n<li>It has the capacity of recovering more than 95 per cent Lithium (Li), Cobalt (Co), Manganese (Mn) and Nickel (Ni) contents in the form of their corresponding oxides\/carbonates of about 98 per cent purity.<\/li>\n<li>The recycling <strong>process involves leaching<\/strong> followed by hierarchical selective extraction of metal values through the solvent extraction process.<\/li>\n<li>These secondary raw materials could be used for battery manufacturing or in other potential applications.<\/li>\n<li>This technology has been <strong>developed under<\/strong> the <strong>Centre of Excellence on E-waste Management.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Lithium<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a soft, <strong>silvery-white metal<\/strong> that heads group 1, the alkali metals group, of the periodic table of the elements.<\/li>\n<li>It has the <strong>lowest density<\/strong> of all metals and the <strong>lightest of the solid elements<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>reacts vigorously with water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It does not occur as a metal in nature but is found combined in small amounts in igneous rocks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Reserves:<\/strong> Lithium reserves are concentrated in the <strong>lithium triangle<\/strong> in South America \u2013 <strong>Argentina, Bolivia &amp; Chile<\/strong>, with 50% of the deposits concentrated in these regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is E-waste?<\/h3>\n<p>E-waste, short for electronic waste, refers to discarded electronic devices that have reached the end of their useful life or are no longer wanted by their users. It includes a wide range of electronic items, such as computers, mobile phones, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and other household appliances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1929480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MeitY transfers cost-effective Li-ion battery recycling technology to nine recycling industries and start-ups<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li-ion battery recycling technology is the indigenously developed technology that could process assorted types of discarded Li-ion batteries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}