PhD & Postdoc
Kwabena Mensah
Metallurgical Engineering · University of Ghana
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.
Thesis Topic
Hydrometallurgical cobalt and nickel recovery from lithium-ion battery black mass
Skills
Transition Signals
Commonwealth Scholarship at Birmingham Faraday Institution cluster
battery materials recovery pilot project lead offer in Ghana
94 percent cobalt recovery rate achieved
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