Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Battery Recycling in China, 2020-2060

Haoyang Li's dataset provides high-resolution estimates for the costs and greenhouse gas emissions of hydrometallurgical battery recycling processes in China. It covers 337 prefecture-level cities from 2020 to 2060 and is disaggregated across six typical battery cathode chemistries. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-17.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of recycling costs and emissions across 337 Chinese cities based on the spatial coverage.
• Forecasting long-term trends in recycling impacts from 2020 to 2060 based on the temporal coverage.
• Assessing the influence of different battery cathode chemistries on recycling outcomes based on the disaggregated data.
• Supporting network design for recycling facilities based on the integrated process-based framework.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution covering 337 prefecture-level cities in China.
• Long-term temporal coverage from 2020 to 2060.
• Data is disaggregated across six typical battery cathode chemistries.
• Constructed using a process-based framework integrating spatial and temporal heterogeneities.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is specific to hydrometallurgical recycling processes in China, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Haoyang Li via figshare.

Collection Method

Constructed using a process-based framework integrating spatial and temporal heterogeneities in battery retirements, factor costs, and energy mixes.

Time Range

2020 to 2060

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 19:39:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, covering 337 prefecture-level cities.