9TH Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (Hybrid), April, 21-24, 2024, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Our technology addresses a vital national security need by producing Li salts from domestic sources with a cost-effective and environmentally benign containerized process. It displaces the environmentally damaging solar evaporation ponds used today. We project that our technology will reduce the cost of Li2CO3 by over 80% compared with today’s spot market price and by almost half compared with today’s production cost. In addition to this cost reduction, our transformational impact is in turning U.S. brine deposits into valuable resources for environmentally benign Li production, thereby enhancing our national energy security in an era marked by rapid electrification of the transportation sector and grid scale electricity storage.
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