Described herein are aluminum alloy products for packaging and/or producing a beverage. The aluminum alloy products include beverage capsules. The aluminum alloy products can include a 3xxx series aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy products can include at least 50 wt. % recycled aluminum. Also described herein are methods for processing the aluminum alloys to produce beverage capsules and other packaging products.

A method and apparatus to reclaim metals from scrap material such as automobile shredder residue (ASR) that, after separating out light density components, separates out friable material such as rock and glass by crushing and screening operations to generate a high metal content product.

Methods and systems for the extraction of metals from an aqueous feed solution containing the metal ions. The aqueous feed solution is contacted with one side of a hydrophilic membrane support while an organic liquid is contacted with an opposite side of the hydrophilic membrane support. Metal ions migrate from the aqueous feed solution through the membrane support and into the organic liquid. The metal ions may be re-extracted from the organic liquid using a strip solution. The steps of extraction and reextraction may be carried out in a system including two hollow fiber membrane modules that each include a plurality of hydrophilic polymer hollow fibers.

A scrap submergence device for mixing molten metal in a furnace may include an upper structure, a shaft extending down from the upper structure, and an impeller at a lower end of the shaft. The impeller may include a plurality of blades and a plate. Each of the plurality of blades may have a blade height and a blade radius. A ratio of a blade height to a blade radius may be approximately 0.3 to approximately 1.

The disclosure relates to a method for producing feedstock in piece form from metal, in particular aluminium and/or aluminium alloys, for a metal-casting installation, in particular aluminium-casting installation, in which scrap parts of metal, in particular of aluminium and/or aluminium alloys, are sorted on the basis of their alloying constituents and/or alloy contents and subsequently, on the basis of an alloy to be produced in the feedstock, the scrap parts are mixed into a composition having a homogeneous distribution of the alloy and fed to a press, in which the scrap parts of the composition are subjected to a pressure that compresses the scrap parts while generating a temperature, wherein, as a result of the application of pressure, the scrap parts are heated up to the transition temperature between solid and liquid of at least some of the scrap parts and/or the alloys and/or alloying constituents thereof before the feedstock is discharged in a specific geometrical form.

A metal removal agent used when removing Mg from an aluminum alloy melt whose raw material is scrap or the like and used for formation of a molten salt layer that takes in Mg from an aluminum alloy melt. The metal removal agent contains: a specific metal element one or more of Cu, Zn, or Mn; a specific halogen element one or more of Cl or Br; and Mg. The metal removal agent may also contain: a base halide that serves as a base material of the molten salt layer; and a specific metal halide that is a compound of a specific metal element and a specific halogen element. When the molten salt layer formed using the agent and the aluminum alloy melt containing Mg are brought into contact with each other, Mg is taken into the molten salt layer side from the aluminum alloy melt side and efficiently removed.

Provided is a method for recovering lithium, for recovering lithium from a lithium ion secondary battery, the method including: a thermal treatment step of thermally treating a lithium ion secondary battery having a residual voltage higher than or equal to 80% of a rated voltage, to obtain a thermally treated product; a pulverizing step of pulverizing the thermally treated product, to obtain a pulverized product; and a lithium recovering step of recovering lithium from the pulverized product.

The present invention relates to techniques for producing 2024 and 7075 aluminum alloys by recycling waste aircraft aluminum alloys, which belong to technical fields for circular economy. The present invention develops techniques for obtaining the 2024 and 7075 aluminum alloys by subjecting waste aircraft aluminum alloys as raw materials to pretreatment, smelting, impurity removal, melt ingredient assay, ingredient adjustment, refining, and casting. Through utilizing the waste package aluminum alloys and the waste aluminum pop-top cans to adjust the ingredients, the waste aircraft aluminum alloys would be recycled at a lower cost without downgrading. The present invention has some advantages, such as low cost, and applicability for industrial production, as well as prominent economic benefit.

A method for producing a mixed metal solution containing manganese ions and at least one of cobalt ions and nickel ions, the method including: an Al removal step of subjecting an acidic solution containing at least manganese ions and aluminum ions, and at least one of cobalt ions and nickel ions, to removal of the aluminum ions by extracting the aluminum ions into a solvent while leaving at least a part of the manganese ions in the acidic solution in an aqueous phase, the acidic solution being obtained by subjecting battery powder of lithium ion batteries to a leaching step; and a metal extraction step of bringing an extracted residual liquid obtained in the Al removal step to an equilibrium pH of 6.5 to 7.5 using a solvent containing a carboxylic acid-based extracting agent, extracting at least one of the manganese ions and at least one of the cobalt ions and the nickel ions into the solvent, and then back-extracting the manganese ions and at least one of the cobalt ions and nickel ions.

Provided herein are aluminum alloys and methods of making these alloys. The aluminum alloys described herein are produced with a high content of recycled scrap. The recycled scrap may include used beverage can scrap and mixed alloy scrap (e.g., automotive scrap containing one or more of 5xxx, 6xxx, and/or 7xxx series aluminum alloys). Surprisingly, aluminum alloy products produced from the aluminum alloys including a high content of recycled scrap as described herein exhibit mechanical properties comparable to those displayed by high-performance aluminum alloy products, such as high tensile strength, good formability without cracking and/or fracture, and/or high elongation before fracture.