The present invention provides a preparation method of a battery composite material, wherein a precursor with the chemical formula FePO.sub.4 is formed by introducing air or oxygen during calcination. The precursor is then reacted with a first reactant containing lithium atoms and a carbon source to form a battery composite material with the chemical formula LiFePO.sub.4.

Sustainable upcycling method of preparing an electrocatalyst, the method including: providing an electrode material obtained from a lithium-ion battery, wherein the electrode material includes LiFePO.sub.4@N-doped carbon core-shell particles; contacting the electrode material with an aqueous solution comprising an acid thereby forming the electrocatalyst; and optionally drying the electrocatalyst.

The invention belongs to the field of battery material recovery, and discloses a preparation method and application of heterosite phosphate. The method comprises the following steps: mixing lithium iron phosphate with a solvent, adding an acid solution, and adjusting the pH to obtain an acidic lithium iron phosphate liquid; adding a transition metal additive to the acidic lithium iron phosphate liquid, and performing leaching in an intensifying micro-environment, followed by filtrating to obtain heterosite iron phosphate and a lithium-rich solution. The leaching rate of lithium in the leaching solution reaches 90.5-99.9%, and both of the iron and phosphorus content in the leaching solution are less than 0.1 ppm; the recovered heterosite iron phosphate has a purity of 99.9%, and the recovery rate of the heterosite iron phosphate is 99.3%.

The present disclosure provides a method for preparing lithium iron phosphate from ferric hydroxyphosphate, including: purifying ferrous sulfate to form a ferrous sulfate solution, adding hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid, an ammonium dihydrogen phosphate solution and ammonia water into the ferrous sulfate solution and then reacting to form a mixed slurry, holding the mixed slurry at a temperature for a period of time, and then washing with water and subjecting to press filtration to form ferric hydroxyphosphate precursors with different iron-phosphorus ratios; then flash drying, sintering at a high temperature, and pulverizing to obtain ferric hydroxyphosphate precursors with different iron-phosphorus ratios and different specific surface areas.

The present disclosure discloses a method for recycling all types of lithium batteries. First, the lithium battery waste is acid-leached to obtain a solution containing most of metal ions. After filtering, the solution is separated from the remaining solids, and then the obtained solution is subjected to separate precipitation many times. After separately adjusting the pH value of the solution many times, adding precipitants with a high selectivity ratio, and matching with filtration and separation reaction, all ions in the lithium battery waste are sequentially precipitated in forms of iron phosphate (FePO.sub.4), aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH).sub.3), manganese oxide (MnO.sub.2), dicobalt trioxide (cobalt oxide, Co.sub.2O.sub.3), nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH).sub.2), and lithium carbonate (Li.sub.2CO.sub.3).

The invention relates to a method of recycling lithium iron phosphate batteries with the aim of enabling the isolated recovery of elements from black mass. Black mass comprising at least cathodic and anodic components is immersed in a pH 13-14 solution to obtain a first leachate and first solid residue. The first leachate is immersed in a 4-6M acid solution to obtain a second leachate. The second leachate is passed through a first ion-exchange column where fluoride ions are retained and a second ion-exchange column where copper ions are to obtain a second eluate. The pH of the second eluate is adjusted to about 2.5-5 and a quantity of phosphoric acid that is sufficient to achieve an equivalent stoichiometric ratio of ferric iron and phosphate anions is added to obtain a first solution and an iron (III) phosphate precipitate. The first solution is combined with the first leachate to obtain a second solution. The pH of the second solution is adjusted to about 6.5 to a residual precipitate and a lithium solution.

A source of phosphate for agriculture and food industry comprises a phosphate salt in solid form of formula M.sub.n(HPO4)y.zH2O in which M is Na, K, NH4, n=2, and y=1; or M is Ca, n=1, y=1; or M is Al or Fe, n=2, y=3; and in which z is 0, 1 or 2, wherein said phosphate salt has a phosphate content expressed as a P2O5 content of between 30 and 50% by weight of the phosphate salt, and it has a cadmium content lower than 0.40 ppm.

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a phosphate containing fertilizer product, comprising the steps of providing a phosphate containing precipitate from a wastewater treatment process; separating water from the precipitate to provide a dewatered slurry cake; and optionally admixing a compound selected from nitrogen, potassium and additional phosphorous containing compounds. The present invention further relates to a fertilizer and uses.

Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and processes for the conversion of lithium phosphate into a low-phosphate solution containing lithium which may be suitable as feedstock for the production of saleable lithium products.

A process for the preparation of carbon-coated lithium transition metal phosphate having the formula Li.sub.0.9+xM.sub.yMn.sub.1yPO.sub.4 and its use as cathode material in secondary lithium-ion batteries wherein the process includes few synthesis steps which can be conducted easily, therefore providing a low cost process and results in a complete reaction of the starting material compounds or the mixtures thereof. At least one starting material compound is dispersed or dissolved in an essentially aqueous medium and heated to a temperature between 50 C. and 100 C. prior to addition of the remaining starting material compounds.