E3 Lithium Outlines Demonstration Program Objectives to Advance Lithium Production in Alberta
Overview of the Demonstration Program
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Brine Production: likely to occur in two stages, the brine will be sourced from the aquifer to feed the production equipment to generate lithium carbonate. A second stage will increase brine production volume to emulate a commercial production well, testing the reservoir properties at this scale.
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Pre-DLE Brine Treatment: separate the entrained gas in the brine, this step will remove these gases using conventional petroleum industry two-phase separation equipment, producing a brine that can be fed directly into the DLE system.
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Scaled-up DLE system: A larger scale, fully automated, DLE system will be deployed to mimic, as closely as possible, the same process operations that will be deployed in the commercial facility. This includes the numbers of vessels per module, how brine enters and exits the vessels and the sequence of rinse and desorption steps. The sorbent will be sourced from a third-party vendor for the DLE system in line with our Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”).
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Post- DLE Treatment: This step further concentrates and refines the lithium chloride from the DLE system, optimized to produce battery-grade lithium as the final step.
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Carbonation equipment: Sodium carbonate, sourced from a commercial supplier, will be added to the lithium chloride in a reactor to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. As outlined in E3 Lithium’s PFS, the byproduct of this step is sodium chloride (table salt), which can be added back into the brine for disposal.
- Water recovery: process water streams from the post-DLE treatment will be collected, where appropriate, to be used as strip fluid for desorbing the lithium from the sorbent in the DLE step.
As outlined,
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The engineering and design of the equipment are well underway, with the focus on a design that closely resembles a commercial operating unit.
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Equipment manufacturing is set to begin in the new year, with an expected four to five months to delivery on site.
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Commissioning will occur on-site with brine that has already been produced, accelerating the commissioning process.
- Once the system is operating to the designed specifications, the live brine stream will be connected, enabling end-to-end operations to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate.
The lithium carbonate can be further converted to lithium hydroxide with one of our partner equipment vendors to define the process operations for that final step.
The success of our
Confirm the process to achieving battery-grade lithium carbonate under commercial conditions.
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“The success of the demonstration project will provide critical data and validation to our processes, while enabling our commercial initiatives,” said
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