E3 Lithium’s Laboratory to Expand to Include Production of Lithium Carbonate
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E3 Lithium Calgary -based lab to manufacture battery products, including lithium carbonate -
E3 Lithium plans to build scaled down equipment to validate lithium carbonate that will support the feasibility study and future operations - The carbonate produced from this work will allow the Company to refine its process for battery-grade lithium carbonate
E3 Lithium’s development facility, located at the
With the definition of the downstream processes utilizing chemical conversion to produce lithium carbonate and then lithium hydroxide, E3 will deploy the same validation, verification and optimization strategy to the conversion processes. This includes building scaled down process equipment that mimics the commercial systems to validate and optimize the production of lithium carbonate. The team will further investigate the necessity to complete the equipment to continue from carbonate to lithium hydroxide. This work will support E3 Lithium’s feasibility engineering study and future commercial operations.
“Developing this capability in-house offers significant advantages in terms of result accuracy, cost-effectiveness and flexibility” said
The Post-DLE to Lithium Carbonate Flowsheet
DLE technology extracts lithium ions from E3 Lithium’s brine efficiently and effectively producing a lithium rich concentrate stream. The process to convert the lithium rich solution (a liquid) to lithium carbonate (a solid) utilizes conventional chemical reactions and industry standard processes and is comprised of two main steps: purification with volume reduction and precipitation of lithium products.
- Purification and Volume Reduction: This step removes the contaminants, mainly calcium, magnesium and boron, from the DLE lithium rich product stream, further concentrates the lithium stream and recovers water for reuse in the process. Example of process technology used in this step can include precipitation, nanofiltration, ion exchange, reverse osmosis (RO) and evaporation.
- Precipitation: The final step involves a conversion process achieved by mixing soda ash with the purified, concentrated lithium solution to produce a solid lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) precipitate.
About E3 Lithium’s Lab
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