US 12,136,713 B2
Battery recycling
Nicholas Reed Perkins, Somerville, MA (US); Isabella Caruso, Cambridge, MA (US); Rachel Elizabeth Mumma, Somerville, MA (US); Anthony Tran, Boston, MA (US); Rupak Chakraborty, Brookline, MA (US); Matthew Edward Via, Boston, MA (US); Jocelyn Marie Newhouse, Somerville, MA (US); Jarrod David Milshtein, Arlington, MA (US); Liang Su, Medfield, MA (US); Michael Andrew Gibson, Philadelphia, PA (US); Danielle Cassidy Smith, Cambridge, MA (US); William Henry Woodford, Somerville, MA (US); and Amelie Nina Kharey, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to FORM ENERGY, INC., Somerville, MA (US)
Filed by FORM ENERGY INC., Somerville, MA (US)
Filed on May 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/313,865.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/021,169, filed on May 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0351450 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 10/54 (2006.01); C21B 13/00 (2006.01); C22B 1/02 (2006.01); C22B 3/04 (2006.01); C22B 3/12 (2006.01); C22B 3/16 (2006.01); C22B 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 10/54 (2013.01) [C21B 13/0046 (2013.01); C22B 1/02 (2013.01); C22B 3/04 (2013.01); C22B 3/12 (2013.01); C22B 3/16 (2013.01); C22B 7/00 (2013.01); C22B 7/006 (2013.01); Y02P 10/20 (2015.11); Y02W 30/84 (2015.05)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
decommissioning an electrochemical system; and
converting at least one portion of a metal electrode of the electrochemical system into a commodity metal source,
wherein converting the at least one portion of the metal electrode into the commodity metal source includes pumping an organic solvent into the electrochemical system, where the organic solvent causes an exothermic reaction used for heat in an energy plant and produces the commodity metal source including a metal oxide with crystalline features and uniform composition.