TECHNOLOGIES AND FEATURES OF DISPOSAL OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES

Abstract

Lithium-ion batteries are the main type of battery used to power electrified energy-saturated vehicles. The mass of lithium-ion batteries is 15-30 percent of the total mass of the machine. They include a significant amount of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as other valuable materials, which, at the end of its operation, is advisable to restore and reuse. (Research purpose) The research purpose is to show the relevance and prospects of utilization of lithium-ion batteries of energy-saturated equipment with an electric drive. (Materials and methods) With the increase in the total number of energy-saturated vehicles in the national economy, in particular, in the agro-industrial complex, the question of their negative impact on the environment at the end of the life cycle is increasingly being raised. There is the need to dispose of environmentally hazardous materials that are used in the production of parts of energy-saturated vehicles, for example, lithium-ion batteries, the number of which is constantly growing from year to year. (Results and discussion) The disposal of lithium-ion batteries is a new serious and urgent problem that needs to be solved in the shortest possible time in all sectors of the national economy, including the agro-industrial complex. The methods of utilization of these elements of energy-saturated self-propelled equipment presented in the article partially solve this problem. (Conclusions) The considered methods of disposal of lithium-ion batteries reflect the real possibilities of their implementation at specialized enterprises for the disposal of equipment and its elements and in organized workshops (sites) created at enterprises for the technical support of machines.