Gavin Co-Authors Paper on High-Throughput Graphite Recovery from Battery Anode Scrap

Gavin is a co-author of the open-access paper "High-Throughput Graphite Recovery from Battery Anode Scrap: Impacts of Using In-Line Near-Infrared Processing on Material Integrity", published in the American Chemical Society journal Sustainable Resource Management.

Recovering high-purity graphite from anode manufacturing scrap is often energy-intensive, with furnaces needed for hours to decompose residual binders. The team demonstrated an in-line near-infrared thermal approach that deactivates the organic binders in 15.6 seconds, more than 200 times faster than conventional furnace processing.

The work was led by the EPSRC TREFCo project (EP/W019167/2), with learning drawn from the Faraday Institution's ReLiB Project. It is a collaboration between Swansea University, the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath. Read the open-access paper.