PhD Candidates
Kwabena Mensah
Kwabena Mensah is a PhD candidate in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Ghana, supervised by Prof. Emmanuel Asamoah. His thesis optimises selective leaching and solvent extraction workflows for recovering battery-grade cobalt and nickel from lithium-ion battery black mass generated by West African electric vehicle dismantlers, assessing economic feasibility and waste minimisation. Five publications in Hydrometallurgy and Minerals Engineering reflect his leaching kinetics and extraction selectivity findings. Kwabena was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for a collaborative period at the University of Birmingham's Faraday Institution battery recycling cluster. He has received an offer to lead a battery materials recovery pilot project at a Ghanaian mining company expanding into EV battery processing. His cobalt recovery rates exceed 94 percent on commercial black mass feedstocks.
Details
- Advisor
- Prof. Emmanuel Asamoah
- Field
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Institution
- University of Ghana
- Skills
- hydrometallurgysolvent extractionICP-OESleaching kineticsprocess simulationbattery recyclingmetals analysis
- Thesis
- Hydrometallurgical cobalt and nickel recovery from lithium-ion battery black mass
- Transition Signals
- Commonwealth Scholarship at Birmingham Faraday Institution clusterbattery materials recovery pilot project lead offer in Ghana94 percent cobalt recovery rate achieved