“…In many of the proposed hydrometallurgical recycling processes, the active cathode materials are separated from the cathode current collectors by dissolving the Al foils with NaOH, and the binder, Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), is removed with N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) (Weng et al, 2013;Li et al, 2010). The obtained active cathode materials are then leached by either HCl (Wang et al, 2009;Joulie et al, 2014;Li et al, 2009a), HNO 3 (Ferreira et al, 2009), H 2 SO 4 (Zhu et al, 2012;Shin et al, 2005;Chen et al, 2011) or their mixtures (Bok et al, 2004). The valuable metals are separated from the Al in the leaching liquid by solvent extraction with extractants such as D2EHPA, PC-88A, Cyanex 272 and Acorga M5640 (Zhao et al, 2011;Granata et al, 2012;Pranolo et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 1998), followed by ion exchange (Li et al, 2009b) and electrochemical (Freitas and Garcia, 2007) or chemical precipitation processes (Li et al, 2009c).…”