Portable solar powered Electricity Supplies Using Recovered Batteries (PESURB)
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Millions of functional rechargeable lithium ion batteries are disposed of each year. Some of these are recycled
to recover the materials they are made of, but this is expensive and the recovered value is low. A better, and
more sustainable approach, is to identify those batteries that have remaining functional lifetimes and to use
them in new applications. This project is developing a process whereby these end of life batteries can be
recovered, rapidly tested, and integrated into portable, low cost, lightweight, solar cell rechargeable power
supply units that can be used to charge mobile phones and to power low energy lighting. There are around 600
million people globally with mobile phones that have no access to electricity at home. To charge them, they
often have to walk for many hours to charging stations to connect their phones to car battery-based chargers; a
privilege for which there are high charges. The power supply units developed in this project will provide low
cost energy for phone charging and low energy lighting applications, using a circular economic approach to the
reuse of lithium ion batteries.
| Mtg Research Ltd | LEAD_ORG |
| Valpak Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| University of Oxford | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Mtg Research Ltd | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Emma Goosey | PM_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Accumulators
- Batteries
- Cell phones
- Chargers
- Ions
- Reuse
- Sustainable use
- Energy costs
Extracted key phrases
- Solar cell rechargeable power
- Functional rechargeable lithium ion battery
- Portable solar
- Low energy lighting application
- Power supply unit
- Low cost
- Life battery
- Cost energy
- Car battery
- Mobile phone
- Electricity Supplies
- High charge
- Phone charging
- Functional lifetime
- Circular economic approach