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.
Hydrometallurgical lithium-ion battery recycling needs ion-exchange metal recovery, cyanide and reagent regeneration piping in exotic alloys, rare-earth recovery pumps, and peristaltic pumps and knife gate valves for abrasive leach liquor. It is the same duty class as ore leaching. LibertyCES supplies 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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Reviewed by James Riggins, 30+ years specifying water and chemical process equipment · Updated