Battery Recycling

First at Batrec, batteries are pyrolised at temperatures of up to 700° Celsius. In the process water and mercury are vaporised. This gases burn at over 1000° Celsius, so that dioxins and furanes are destroyed. The exhaust gases are then led into the exhaust-gas purification plant where the gases are washed with circulating water as a wet-chemical process, and cooled to 4° Celsius. The solid materials are washed out, and the mercury condensed out as a metal. The sludge which arises is further processed in the mercury-distillation plant. By heating to over 360° Celsius, the mercury contained in the waste vaporises, and condenses again as pure mercury in a condensation column.
A downstream activated carbon filter removes the remaining traces of mercury from the exhaust-gas stream.

furnace at BATREC plant