03/04/2025
VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research), is a leading international research and consultancy centre in the domains of regenerative economy, healthy living environment and resilient ecosystems. Its research agenda focuses on today’s major social challenges: climate change, food security, raw materials scarcity, a sustainable energy supply and population ageing. VITO transform fundamental research into market-ready solutions to create additional value and increased competitiveness for companies and governments. With multidisciplinary approach and unique lab, scale-up, and testing infrastructure, VITO creates practical technological innovations.
Main tasks and responsibilities in the project:
The Electrochemical Excellence Centre (ELEC) at VITO develops electrochemical processes, designs the relevant electrochemical components, integrates the system to achieve TRL 6-7, in the field of green electricity, electrochemical metal recovery and electrosynthesis towards high value chemicals. Gas-diffusion electrocrystallisation (GDEx) is one of the electrochemical processes developed within ELEC. GDEx will be implemented for the direct repairing and customisation of cathodic materials obtained by the delamination of electrodes from spent Li-ion batteries. Additionally, direct recycling of cathode active materials from the black mass using GDEx process will be carried out.
