Demobat Industrial dismantling of battery modules and electric motors to secure economically strategic raw materials for E-mobility

“DeMoBat” is a research project funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment which is investigating how robots can assist in the dismantling of traction batteries and e-drive units for e-mobility, and thus facilitate more efficient recycling. The dismantling plant is to be built close to the relevant industrial locations. A competence centre is also being set up to provide technological and business-related assistance and support. It is the only project of its kind in Germany.

The researchers at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Technology and Mobility (INEM) at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences are members of a consortium of 13 project partners from industry, business and science. Esslingen’s role in the collaborative project over the next three years is to investigate two aspects: the recycling of the battery cells and also the feasibility of using an admixture of recovered material in the production of new cells.

Principal researchers at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Ralf Wörner
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Scheibe
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frederik Reichert
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai-Andre Böhm
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Appel
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hanno Käß

Project duration:

12/2019 to 11/2022

Funding:

Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Sector

Collaboration partners:

• acp systems AG
• BTU Cottbus – Fachgebiet Physikalische Chemie
• CTC battery technology GmbH
• CUTEC Clausthaler Umwelttechnik Forschungszentrum
• ERLOS GmbH
• Greening GmbH & Co. KG
• KIT – Institute for Industrial Production (IIP)
• KIT – wbk Institut für Produktionstechnik
• Silberland Sondermaschinenbau GmbH

People to contact

Prof. Dr. Ralf Wörner

Dr. –Ing. Ines Klugius

Further information about the project

Project DeMoBat: Direktförderung für Batteriezell-Recycling (in German) (06.02.2020)