Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM represents a combination of metals and includes nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and aluminum and manganese. The process includes: (a) combining an aqueous slurry of metallic nickel and at least one metal selected from aluminum and transition metals other than nickel with an oxidant selected from oxygen and nitrate in a first reaction vessel or in a first group of reaction vessels at a temperature of from 5° to 40° C., (b) transferring aqueous reaction medium from the first reaction vessel to a second reaction vessel, where the second reaction vessel contains a slurry of a hydroxide of TM, (c) removing the particles from step (b) from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method, and drying the particles, and (d) returning liquid phase obtained in step (c) to the first reaction vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM represents metals and includes nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and aluminum and manganese. The process includes the steps of: (a) combining an aqueous slurry of metallic nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and manganese and aluminum with an oxidant selected from nitrate and peroxide in a reaction vessel under an atmosphere with less than 100 ppm O2, thereby obtaining an aqueous reaction medium with a pH value in the range of from 7.5 to 12 containing particles, (b) removing the particles from step (a) from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method, and drying the particles, and (c) returning mother liquor obtained in step (b) to the reaction vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide or oxide, a particulate (oxy)hydroxide or oxide, and a method of using the particulate (oxy)hydroxide or oxide. Also disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide or oxide of TM where TM represents metals, where the process is performed in a cascade of at least three stirred tank reactors.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for removing water from a particulate material selected from (oxy)hydroxides and carbonates containing at least one of nickel, cobalt, and at least one metal other than nickel. The process includes the step of introducing at least one particulate material with a water content in the range of from 1 to 30% by weight, referring to said particulate material, into a rotary kiln with external heating elements and moving it through the rotary kiln together with a flow of a gas. The residual moisture of the resultant product is in the range of from 50 ppm to 1.5% by weight.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM where TM refers to a combination of nickel and at least one metal selected from Co and Mn and where the process includes the steps of: (a) providing one or more aqueous solution(s) (?) containing water-soluble salts of Ni and of at least one transition metal selected from Co and Mn, and, optionally, at least one further metal selected from Ti, Zr, Mo, W, Al, Mg, Nb, and Ta, and an aqueous solution (?) containing an alkali metal hydroxide and, optionally, an aqueous solution (?) containing a complexing agent, and (b) combining in a stirred tank reactor solution(s) (?) and solution (?) and, if applicable, solution (?) in one or more sub-steps, at a pH value in the range of from 10.5 to 12.5 determined at 23° C.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making an (oxy)hydroxide of TM where TM refers to metals of which at least 97 mol-% are transition metals and where TM includes manganese and nickel, and where at least 50 mol-% of TM are manganese, the process including the steps of: (a) providing at least one aqueous solution (?) of water-soluble salts of such metals and an aqueous solution (?) including alkali metal hydroxide selected from the group consisting of NaOH and KOH, (b) combining solutions (?) and (?) at a pH value in the range of from 9.5 to 10.3, where such step (b) is carried out using at least one coaxial mixer including two coaxially orientated pipes through which an aqueous solution (?) and an aqueous solution of (?) are introduced into a stirred vessel, thereby precipitating an (oxy)hydroxide of TM, and (c) recovering and drying the (oxy)hydroxide of TM.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM is a combination of nickel and at least one metal selected from Co and Mn, the process including: (a) providing an aqueous solution (?) containing water-soluble salts of Ni and of at least one transition metal selected from Co and Mn, (b) combining a solution (?) and a solution (?) and, if applicable, a solution (?) at a pH value in a range of from 12.0 to 13.0 determined at 23° C. in a continuous stirred tank reactor, thereby creating a slurry of solid particles of a hydroxide containing nickel, and (c) transferring slurry from step (b) into a batch-wise operated stirred tank reactor where a solution (?) and a solution (?) and optionally a solution (?) are combined with the slurry at a pH value in a range of from 11.0 to 12.0 determined at 23° C.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM represents a combination of metals and includes nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and aluminum and manganese. The process includes: (a) combining an aqueous slurry of metallic nickel and at least one metal selected from aluminum and transition metals other than nickel with an oxidant selected from oxygen and nitrate in a first reaction vessel or in a first group of reaction vessels at a temperature of from 5° to 40° C., (b) transferring aqueous reaction medium from the first reaction vessel to a second reaction vessel, where the second reaction vessel contains a slurry of a hydroxide of TM, (c) removing the particles from step (b) from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method, and drying the particles, and (d) returning liquid phase obtained in step (c) to the first reaction vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM represents metals and includes nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and aluminum and manganese. The process includes the steps of: (a) combining an aqueous slurry of metallic nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and manganese and aluminum with an oxidant selected from nitrate and peroxide in a reaction vessel under an atmosphere with less than 100 ppm O2, thereby obtaining an aqueous reaction medium with a pH value in the range of from 7.5 to 12 containing particles, (b) removing the particles from step (a) from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method, and drying the particles, and (c) returning mother liquor obtained in step (b) to the reaction vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide, carbonate, or oxide of TM which includes nickel and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, manganese, and aluminum. The process includes providing an aqueous solution (?1) containing a water-soluble salt of Ni, one of an aqueous solution (?2) containing a water-soluble salt of Co, an aqueous solution (?3) containing a water-soluble salt of Mn, or an aqueous solution (?4) containing a water-soluble compound of Al, an aqueous solution (?) containing an alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate and, optionally, an aqueous solution (?) containing ammonia or an organic acid or its alkali metal salt, combining solution (?1) and solution (?) and at least one of solutions (?2), (?3), (?4), and, if applicable, solution (?), in different locations of a continuous reactor, and removing the particles from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method.

Abstract: Described herein is a process for making a nickel composite hydroxide with a mean particle diameter d50 in the range from 3 to 20 ?m including combining (a) an aqueous solution of water-soluble salts of nickel and of at least one of cobalt and manganese, and, optionally, at least one of Al, Mg, B, or transition metals other than nickel, cobalt, and manganese, (b) an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide and (c) an aqueous solution of alkali metal (bi)carbonate or ammonium (bi)carbonate in the molar ratio of 0.001:1 to 0.04:1, and, optionally, (d) an aqueous solution of alkali metal aluminate, in a continuous stirred tank reactor or in a cascade of at least two continuous stirred tank reactors.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate oxyhydroxide or oxide of TM with a bimodal particles diameter distribution where TM represents metals, and where TM includes nickel and at least one metal is selected from the group consisting of cobalt and manganese.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide, carbonate, or oxide of TM which includes nickel and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, manganese, and aluminum. The process includes providing an aqueous solution (?1) containing a water-soluble salt of Ni, one of an aqueous solution (?2) containing a water-soluble salt of Co, an aqueous solution (?3) containing a water-soluble salt of Mn, or an aqueous solution (?4) containing a water-soluble compound of Al, an aqueous solution (?) containing an alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate and, optionally, an aqueous solution (?) containing ammonia or an organic acid or its alkali metal salt, combining solution (?1) and solution (?) and at least one of solutions (?2), (?3), (?4), and, if applicable, solution (?), in different locations of a continuous reactor, and removing the particles from the liquid by a solid-liquid separation method.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for removing water from a particulate material selected from (oxy)hydroxides and carbonates containing at least one of nickel cobalt, and at least one metal other than nickel. The process includes the step of introducing at least one particulate material with a water content in the range of from 1 to 30% by weight, referring to said particulate material, into a rotary kiln with external heating elements and moving it through the rotary kiln together with a flow of a gas. The residual moisture of the resultant product is in the range of from 50 ppm to 1.5% by weight.

Abstract: Process for precipitating a carbonate or (oxy)hydroxide comprising nickel from an aqueous solution of a nickel salt wherein such process is carried out in a vessel comprising (A) a vessel body, (B) one or more elements that control the hydraulic flow of the slurry formed during the precipitation and that induce a loop-type circulation flow, and (C) a stirrer whose stirrer element is in the vessel but located separately from the element(s) (B).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for precipitating a mixed hydroxide of TM where TM includes Ni, at least one of Co and Mn, and, optionally, one of Al, Mg, Zr or Ti from an aqueous solution of salts of such transition metals or of Al or of Mg. The process is carried out in a stirred vessel and includes the step of introducing a 10 to 40% by weight aqueous solution of ammonia and an aqueous solution of transition metal salts through at least two inlets into the stirred vessel. An aqueous solution of alkali metal hydroxide is added separately from the at least two inlets.

Abstract: Process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM wherein TM comprises nickel and where-in said process comprises the steps of: (a) Providing an aqueous solution (?) containing water-soluble salts of Ni and of at least one transition metal selected from Co and Mn, and, optionally, at least one further metal sel-ected from Ti, Zr, Mo, W, Al, Mg, Nb, and Ta, and an aqueous solution (?) containing an alkali metal hydroxide and, optionally, an aqueous solution (?) containing ammonia, (b) combining a solution (?) and a solution (?) and, if applicable, a solution (?) at a pH value in the range of from 12.0 to 13.0 in a stirred tank reactor, thereby creating solid particles of a hydroxide containing nickel, said solid particles being slurried, (c) transferring said slurry into another stirred tank reactor and combining it with a solution (?) and a solution (?) and, if applicable, a solution (?) at a pH value in the range of from 11.0 to 12.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling and/or monitoring equipment (110) of a chemical plant is proposed.

Abstract: Process for precipitating a mixed carbonate or mixed (oxy)hydroxide comprising nickel from an aqueous solution comprising a nickel salt, wherein such process is carried out in a vessel comprising (A) a vessel body, (B) one or more elements selected from draft tubes and guide vanes, (C) at least one stirrer whose pressure zone is in or between element(s) (B), and wherein the process comprises the step of simultaneously adding said solution comprising a nickel salt in or between element(s) (B) and a solution of alkali metal carbonate or hydroxide in or between or outside element(s) (B).

Abstract: Process for precipitating a mixed hydroxide of TM wherein TM comprises Ni and at least one of Co and Mn and, optionally, Al, Mg, Zr or Ti, from an aqueous solution of salts of such transition metals or of Al or of Mg, wherein such process is carried out in a stirred vessel and comprises the step of introducing an aqueous solution of alkali metal hydroxide and an aqueous solution of transition metal salts through at least two inlets into said stirred vessel wherein the distance of the locations of introduction of salts of TM and of alkali metal hydroxide is equal or less than 6 times the hydraulic diameter of the tip of the inlet pipe of the alkali metal hydroxide.