UK-based startup Materia AI has secured UK government grant funding to develop its ReGenTrace AI platform to support the recycling and reintegration of spent EV batteries into the circular economy.
ReGenTrace AI is a cloud-native platform that combines machine learning, predictive modelling and blockchain traceability to turn battery recycling into a data-driven, automated and fully traceable process, according to the company.
Materia AI aims to help industry participants across the battery value chain reduce costs, maximize material recovery and ensure compliance with ESG regulations from logistics and dismantling through to materials discovery and lifecycle assessment.
The ReGenTrace AI platform will integrate a suite of AI modules, including optimization of end-of-life battery collection and logistics through AI control towers, real-time material identification using computer vision and edge AI, prediction of black mass composition and discovery and optimization of battery materials and manufacturing pathways.
The platform also incorporates blockchain-based traceability to capture battery and material sourcing across the lifecycle and forecasting of materials pricing, demand for recycled content and supply-demand imbalances.
The first ReGenTrace AI modules will go live by the end of March and will be validated through a live deployment at an unnamed UK battery recycler.
“AI models will identify battery material types and predict waste composition, enabling forecasting of elemental composition and impurity profiles,” Materia AI stated. “This will allow feedstocks to be dynamically routed to optimal processing pathways and process conditions to be tuned to maximize lithium, nickel and cobalt recovery.”
The company secured the grant funding through Innovate UK’s Early Stage Growth Catalyst competition, which aims to support the development of startups that have high potential across five of the government’s priority technologies, including AI.
Source: Materia AI
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