Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia; Université de Lorraine-INRAE, Laboratoire Sols et Environment, 54000 Nancy, France.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jun 25;827:154092. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154092. Epub 2022 Feb 24.
Globally, there is a major shift to electric vehicles to combat climate change and these vehicles are currently powered by lithium-ion batteries that contain nickel cobalt manganese oxide materials. This technological change from internal combustion engines means that demand for battery minerals will need to increase by factors of >20 for the critical metals required for batteries in the next three decades. If this scenario plays out, it will require a dramatic increase in the worldwide capacity to produce nickel, manganese, cobalt, and lithium raw materials of sufficient purity. This demand could partly be met by agromining technology, which is a 'green technology' that extracts valuable products, including high-purity metal salts useful for the battery industry, from selected plants known as 'metal crops'. Farming for nickel, cobalt, and manganese is currently within reach, whereas lithium agromining has not yet been developed but has potential. SYNOPSIS: Agromining offers a sustainable approach to economically produce battery-grade raw materials from unconventional sources, thus, producing 'green technologies' from 'green sources'.
从全球范围来看，人们正在大力转向电动汽车，以应对气候变化，而这些电动汽车目前由含有镍钴锰氧化物材料的锂离子电池提供动力。这种从内燃机到电动汽车的技术转变意味着，在未来三十年，电池所需的关键金属的需求将需要增加 20 多倍。如果这种情况发生，就需要在全球范围内大幅提高生产镍、锰、钴和锂原材料的能力，以达到足够的纯度。这种需求的一部分可以通过农业矿业技术来满足，这是一种“绿色技术”，可以从选定的被称为“金属作物”的植物中提取有价值的产品，包括电池行业用的高纯度金属盐。目前已经可以实现镍、钴和锰的农业矿业开采，而锂的农业矿业开采尚未开发，但具有潜力。摘要：农业矿业为从非传统来源经济地生产电池级原材料提供了一种可持续的方法，从而从“绿色资源”中生产出“绿色技术”。
