Impact of electromobility on resource availability and recycling strategies
Impact of electromobility on resource availability and recycling strategies
Description of the
Electromobility goes hand in hand with the use of energy storage devices such as batteries. As not enough electric vehicles are currently in everyday use, it is difficult to estimate the future potential for resource consumption or resource recovery.
The following work packages are to be developed in the context of a bachelor thesis:
- Estimation of the number of future electric vehicles on the market
- Lifetime prediction of the Li-ion batteries available for recycling from previous vehicle models
- Estimation of resource recovery from state-of-the-art recycling technologies
- Estimation of alternative battery technologies
- Costs of collecting and processing used batteries (incl. value share of batteries on the market)
- Recycling strategies for the further utilisation of recovered resources from batteries and material quantity representation in Sankey diagrams
A Master's thesis is possible after consultation with a customised topic.
| End-of-life vehicles, batteries, Li-Ion, recycling, resource utilisation, material flows |