LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN

MANAGEMENT

ASSIGNMENT

Submitted to: Mr. SYED RIZWAN ASHFAQ

Submitted by: MUHAMMAD MUNEEB (24)
RAJA NADEEM ASGHAR KIANI (32)
Date: 8th Jan, 2023
Scope of project: Sustainability and Reverse Logistics of UPS batteries
After a battery’s first life in a automobile and earlier than it is recycled, it is able to be reused,
refurbished, and repurposed.
If the battery isn’t damaged all through its use in an UPS, consisting of in a vehicle accident,
those batteries have extra usable potential – an estimated 80% of the unique rated potential.
Because of this if the battery changed into synthetic to save one hundred kWh, it could now
keep up to 80 kWh. That allows you to employ the ultimate potential, the batteries may be
damaged down to salvage smaller components for reuse and refurbishment, or they may be
repurposed and utilized in a less traumatic utility, which includes desk bound garage.
For stationary storage, agencies such as repurpose electricity and b2c storage solutions are
repurposing these batteries for use for renewable energy technology aid. They connect a
couple of batteries together, at the side of battery monitoring and cooling technology, to
create a larger battery this is about the size of a delivery field. The battery shops sun strength
generated for the duration of the day and materials power at excessive-call for instances in
the evening. Because the grid will become cleanser, delivered grid storage will become more
vital to help the generation variability of renewable assets. Those used batteries are a amazing
way to each extend the lifespan of a product that has already been manufactured and help the
renewable electricity transition. After this 2nd-existence use, the batteries are then prepared
to be recycled.
Those recycling groups are securing a battery flow through partnering with vehicle
manufacturers. As an example, important automakers are partnering with redwood materials,
a recycling enterprise primarily based in Nevada. Redwood isn't always best recycling
however will soon be remaining the cloth loop through production battery additives with
recovered materials.
Redwood substances has also applied a recycling application to study greater approximately
the vicinity of retired and uncollected batteries, and the way to decrease the prices of
transporting those batteries to the recycling facility. Transportation from their area of
retirement to the recycling plant is high priced, representing about 50-60% of the recycling
prices. Those charges are because of the unique packaging and necessities needed for
delivery retired batteries and their huge length and weight. But, transportation fees can
doubtlessly be decreased if a extra green collection device is evolved.
 UPS battery Supply Chain:

Mining Refinery Battery Cell Battery Pack End Use

Anode
Cathode
Separator
Electrode Foils
Electrolyte

Components
Recycling

A supplier is someone who sells and gets lead- acid batteries or components thereof to and
from the customers or other dealers or retailer on behalf of the manufacturer, importer,
assemblers and conditioner or otherwise. The misuse and mismanagement of lead acid
batteries for the duration of its deliver chain is a primary problem for the batteries.

Lithium-ion batteries comprise many treasured materials really worth recuperating and saving
from a landfill.
Previous to recycling, the battery is disassembled and shredded the usage of huge equipment,
breaking the battery into small portions. Once the shredding is finished, the substances are
sifted and separated based totally on length. This divides them into three distinct classes:
plastics, ferrous substances, and non-ferrous materials (additionally referred to as black
mass). The black mass consists of the essential substances, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and
manganese, which could individually be recovered using a hydrometallurgical procedure.
Hydrometallurgical recycling begins with leaching to create a solvent that consists of the
crucial materials. The character materials are then recovered the usage of solvent extraction,
precipitation, and purification. Hydrometallurgy is widely recognized in the metals industry
as a comparable method is also used to extract the substances from ore after it's far mined.
Many us-primarily based lithium-ion recycling groups use a version of this technique and file
a fabric healing price of 95%–98%.