Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to removal of aluminum impurities from battery waste. In some aspects, a method for removing aluminum impurities includes preprocessing a quantity of battery waste to improve removal of aluminum impurities from the quantity of battery waste. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the aluminum impurities from the quantity of battery waste, modifying the removed aluminum impurities to form a coating precursor and/or a doping precursor, and applying the coating precursor and/or the doping precursor to an electrode material. In some embodiments, the method further includes characterizing the aluminum impurities in the quantity of battery waste and regenerating the electrode material. In some embodiments, the removing can be via sieving, cyclone separation, air separation, elutriation, and/or dissolution. In some embodiments, the doping precursor can include aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3).

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods of recycling battery waste. In some aspects, a method can include applying a first heat treatment at a temperature of between about 100° C. and about 700° C. to the battery waste, the first heat treatment decomposing at least about 80 wt % of the binder, separating the electrode material from the current collector, and applying a second heat treatment at a temperature between about 400° C. and about 1,200° C. to the electrode material to produce a regenerated electrode material, the second heat treatment decomposing at least 90 wt % of binder remaining in the electrode material to produce a regenerated electrode material. In some embodiments, the method can include applying a surface treatment to the electrode material to remove surface coatings and/or surface impurities from the electrode material. In some embodiments, the surface treatment can include applying a solvent to the electrode material.

Abstract: Systems and methods for forming finished electrode materials are described herein. The method includes mixing an electrode material and an electrode material precursor to form a material mixture and heating the material mixture to produce a finished electrode material. In some embodiments, at least one of an electrode material or an electrode material precursor can be partially or entirely formed from a battery waste material. The methods provided herein provide a sustainable and efficient pathway to produce finished electrode materials, and also expand the pool of source materials for the production of finished electrode materials.

Abstract: This application discloses a software loading method, applied to a network device on which software is deployed. In the method, a software version identifier is indicated by using a version file, and when loading software, the network device compares a version identifier of to-be-loaded software with the version identifier in the version file, to determine whether a version of current to-be-loaded software is a secure version. This implements protection of a software loading process.