Professor Kumar co-led Ever Resource Ltd to make great progress on Battery Upscaling

Ever Resource Ltd (Regenerate Inc USA) is making great progress on Battery Upscaling with the Research Team in the group led by Prof. Kumar and Prof J Robinson (HOD).

Project Title: Circular Economy Innovation for the Recycling and Upcycling of Batteries

Company: Ever Resource Ltd (UK), subsidiary of Regenerate Inc (USA)

Ever Resource Ltd was established in June 2020 to develop, scale up and commercialise technology for the upcycling of batteries with full support and collaboration with Prof. Kumar’s Research Group Members – Drs. Tomov, Knight, Yiao and Cambridge Enterprise for Licensing and commercial support of Intellectual Properties. Prof. Jason Robinson, the HOD of the Department, is the Chief Mentor of the Research activities. Since incorporation, Ever Resource has filed and/or taken control of three patent families in the lead-acid battery recycling and upcycling space and has developed new technologies in collaboration with UK, European and overseas partners. This includes a novel electrolytic cell for the recycling of lithium from lithium-ion batteries (collaboration with South Korean partners); upcycling technology for lead acid batteries batteries (collaboration with Italian and US partners); and in Zn-based batteries (with Swedish Partners). The company is diversifying into multiple battery chemistry upcycling operations and is seeking to continue the research project at the University of Cambridge relating to preliminary steps for recovering components from used batteries:

1. Use of hydrometallurgical processes, for recovering lithium and other metallic and oxidic components from end-of-life primary and secondary lithium and zinc batteries, and secondary lead acid batteries with considerable improvement in carbon and waste footprints.
2. The Cambridge-sponsored researchers possess expertise in electrochemistry, hydrometallurgy and/or innovative  liquid reagents to enable downstream recycling, recovery and upgrading of the metals and materials to manufacture battery-ready precursors.
3. Use of green solvents for recovering components for spent batteries as nano-structured oxides for making new upgraded batteries.
4. Fabrication of cells from upgraded materials to benchmark against other available materials.

Please stay tuned for our future progress with Ever Resource Ltd.