Yes, it can be Done! Modular Hydromet Lead Recycling – and Lithium too – Recycle 100

Yes, it can be Done! Modular Hydromet Lead Recycling – and Lithium too

Lead recycling has seen some incremental developments in the past couple of decades to achieve the continuous improvements necessary for compliance to ever-tougher regulations. ACE Green Recycling now presents a quantum leap in environmental performance with its modular hydrometallurgical process that generates zero Scope 1 carbon emissions with no solid or liquid waste. This offers new groundbreaking technology to the best performers in the secondary lead industry to do an even better. Crucially, it also gives a feasible alternative to some of the worst practices in recycling that can and do generate hostility and suspicion towards our industry. The ACE technology will be outlined in the paper, together with contextualising why it is so important to overhaul some parts of the industry for a truly sustainable secondary lead industry well into the future. How ACE then extended this technology for recycling lithium-ion batteries will also be examined, together with the latest developments achieved with super-low environmental impact.

Presenters

Farid Ahmed

VP Global Strategy & Business Development, ACE Green Recycling

Farid Ahmed joined ACE Green Recycling in July 2022 as Vice President for Global Strategy & Business Development, bringing nearly forty years of metals and battery industry experience including commercial, technical, operations and market research roles.

Prior to joining ACE, Farid was a principal analyst at Wood Mackenzie, leaders in commercial intelligence. As a regular speaker at the key metals industry events, he was acknowledged as a foremost expert on global lead markets. Before this, Farid founded a business consultancy, focused on the metals industry, with engagements including market strategy and analysis, raw materials acquisition, speciality products, process development, product failure analysis, capital investment and expert witness.

Farid holds a BEng honours degree in Metallurgy from the University of Leeds and is a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Institute of Consulting.