Life DRONE
Direct pROduction of New Electrode materials from battery recycling
LIFE Programme of the European Union
The LIFE DRONE project aims to demonstrate the environmental and economic feasibility of an innovative process for the recycling of different types of spent lithium-ion batteries, the recovery of graphite and the direct synthesis of cathode material for the construction of new NMC batteries without the need to separate metals individually.
5 Partners
FAAM RESEARCH CENTER
S.E.VAL.
TECHNOSIND
UNIROMA
ECO RECYCLING
1 Pilot Plant

Life Drone

The LIFE DRONE project aims to demonstrate the environmental and economic feasibility
of an innovative process for the recycling of different types of spent lithium-ion batteries,
the recovery of graphite and the direct synthesis of cathode material for the construction of
new NMC batteries without the need to separate metals individually.

RECOVERY YIELD 90%

Process capacity
90kg/day

Purity NMC salts +99%

660 kg NMC

Batteries treated
3000 kg

Graphite 470 kg

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Project Partners

The LIFE DRONE project involves four partners in Italy.
Technosind is the coordinator of the project and is an R&D company specialized in
the development of innovative processes from the laboratory scale up to the industrial one.
The other partners involved in the LIFE DRONE project are:
Eco Recycling, S.E.Val, UNIROMA and FAAM Research Center.

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