Oluwatosin Atitebi

The University of Texas at Arlington

Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, IMSE

Dissertation: Lithium Small-Scale Recycling Process

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I am PhD candidate in IMSE department at UTA and executes my work largely in Sustainable and Equitable Allocation of Resources Laboratory. The increasing demand for cleaner energy storage systems leaves most of the world, including the US, in a supply chain dilemma regarding critical minerals (such as lithium, silicon, manganese, nickel, etc.), the building blocks for the clean energy infrastructure. Recycling is a viable path towards reclaiming trapped critical minerals in spent lithium-ion batteries, which is prevalent in virtually most electronic waste, along other rare earth elements. This ideal has led to the concept of reverse logistics for supply chains of critical minerals; and my interest is geared towards the inefficiency of the preprocessing stage of the recovery process due to the non-homogenous nature of material composition of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and electronic waste in general.