2019.06.19 Webinar – Recycling of Li-ion batteries in Denmark

Time: June 19, 2019 from 10am to 11am CEST

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Battery recycling is key to a successful electrification of our society. Today, more than 500,000 tons of Li-ion batteries are produced globally each year and this number is expected to grow many-fold in the coming years. Recycling is necessary in order to ensure key metals like cobalt, nickel and lithium, and to obtain a low carbon footprint. Today, successful recycling is often not implemented and when it is, only the expensive metal cobalt is extracted. Successful recycling and reuse of metals like cobalt, nickel and lithium is not easy and require new technologies, incentives and standardization.

This webinar is the first in a series of events focusing on battery collection, waste sorting, 2nd use and reuse of battery materials in a Danish context. The scope of the webinar is to invite relevant parties, introduce the challenges ahead and discuss the most important topics that we should address in future events.

The agenda is:

  • Battery recycling in a Danish context by Kristian Oluf Sylvester-Hvid from Danish Technological Institute
  • The outlook of the European Battery Directive by Anne Nielsen from Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark
  • QnA and possibility to vote for the most interesting subjects for future events.

During the presentation you can send questions, which will be answered in the last part of the webinar.

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Materials

You can see the presentation of the webinar here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AnFUfR2f2piLHgN7ALT90gEo5zbUH1pC/view?usp=sharing

You can watch the recorded webinar here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/6504844230699340035

Jonathan Højberg

Jonathan Højberg received his Cand. Polyt. in Physics and Nanotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011 with a specialization within atomic scale physics related to sustainable energy solutions.

He is currently pursuing a PhD within the field of Lithium-air batteries in a collaboration between DTU Energy Conversion and Haldor Topsøe A/S. He has been heavily engaged in building up state-of-the-art test facilities for Lithium-air batteries at both places and deciding which experiments to conduct.

Jonathan is highly motivated by the interplay between universities and industry, and how the synergies can accelerate the development of new and sustainable energy technologies. In 2009 he founded a company to leverage a newly developed technology to harvest ocean wave energy. The proof-of-concept was developed by making bachelor projects and courses for 15 students at DTU with different competences and coordinating this work. The work resulted in a top-3 in the national start-up competition Venture Cup in the cleantech category and the ideas were adapted in a national collaboration granted 48 MDKK by the Advanced Technology Foundation in 2011 to further develop the technology.

Besides ocean wave power and batteries, Jonathan has worked extensively with the development of cathode materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at the Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Division at Risø, DTU (now part of DTU Energy Conversion). The work focussed on building electrochemical models to describe the cathode, and identify and optimize the most important parameters.

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