Battery Recycling & Black Mass Processing Equipment
The hydrometallurgical route for lithium-ion battery recycling — dissolving black mass in a leach solution to recover lithium, cobalt, and nickel — shares real equipment classes with ore leaching. Equipment and specification support only.
The Same Duty Class, a Genuinely Different Feedstock
Battery recycling's hydrometallurgical stage dissolves spent lithium-ion cells ("black mass") in an acid leach solution instead of mined ore — but the fluid-handling problem is the same duty class covered on LibertyCES's hydrometallurgy page: abrasive, solids-bearing, corrosive leach liquor moving through pumps, valves, and piping that has to survive it. Four of Liberty's manufacturers have real, named products for this specific recovery/regeneration work, not just a general chemical-processing catalog match.
Four Confirmed Product Lines
Metal Recovery — Ion Exchange
Filter Pump's MR-SR Metal Recovery Chamber/System uses ion-exchange resin to recover up to 3 troy oz of precious metal per pound of resin from rinse/drag-out streams — a real, already-catalogued hydrometallurgical metal-recovery product, not a repurposed water-treatment part.
Cyanide Regeneration Systems
Fil-Trek's piping division names "Cyanide Regeneration Systems" explicitly, with fabrication in Hastelloy C276/B3, Duplex 2205, Super Duplex 2507, Titanium, Zirconium Zr702, Inconel, Monel 400, Alloy 20, and AL6XN — the exotic-alloy range a black-mass leach circuit's regeneration loop actually needs.
Rare-Earth Element Recycling
Richter Chemie-Technik's own Industries page names "Mining & Ore: ... Recycling of rare earth elements" verbatim — a direct, vendor-stated hit for battery-material recovery, via lined sealless mag-drive pumps rated -60°C to +200°C.
Leach Solution Transfer & Metering
The same abrasive-leach-stream architecture used in ore leaching applies to black-mass leach liquor — peristaltic/hose pumps (Graco SoloTech, ProMinent DULCOFLEX) for solids-bearing streams, knife gate valves (AVCO 6100 Series) for isolation.
What This Page Doesn't Claim
LibertyCES has not documented a named case study or vendor-published literature specific to a battery-recycling site — the equipment confirmations above are real, named products with mining/leach-duty ratings that transfer directly to this chemistry, not a marketing claim of battery-recycling-specific experience. If your project needs vendor-verified battery-recycling references, ask — we'll tell you honestly what exists.
The Full Leach Circuit
Frequently Asked Questions
What equipment does battery recycling / black mass processing need?
The hydrometallurgical route for lithium-ion battery recycling shares real equipment classes with ore leaching: ion-exchange metal recovery, cyanide/reagent regeneration piping in exotic alloys, rare-earth-element recovery pumps, and abrasive leach-solution transfer via peristaltic pumps and knife gate valves. See the equipment list below for the manufacturer confirmed for each.
Does LibertyCES supply a complete battery recycling plant?
No — LibertyCES supplies equipment and specification support for the fluid-handling side of a hydrometallurgical battery-recycling circuit (pumps, valves, tanks, piping, and instrumentation), never installation, construction labor, or engineering-of-record, and never a turn-key plant.
What is the difference between hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical battery recycling?
Pyrometallurgical (smelting) recycling uses high heat to recover metals; hydrometallurgical recycling dissolves battery material (often called "black mass") into an aqueous acid or leach solution, then recovers the target metals — lithium, cobalt, nickel — via solvent extraction, ion exchange, or precipitation. LibertyCES's equipment roster serves the hydrometallurgical route.
Specifying a battery recycling or black mass leach circuit?
Send LibertyCES the chemistry, concentration, and recovery target — we'll confirm the real equipment fit before you spec a model.
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