Several years of laboratory testing and development, and continuous monitoring, have enabled the teams at Eramet Ideas, the Group’s R&D center, in association with IFPEN (Institut Français du Pétrole et des Énergies Nouvelles) and the company Seprosys, to develop a new battery-grade lithium carbonate production process, with a very high level of direct extraction yield.
- ~90% extraction yield
- ~ 2 times less brine pumped than a conventional extraction process
- 60% recycled water
The technology developed by Eramet Ideas has been transferred to an on-site pilot plant at Centenario. It is used both to fine-tune the lithium carbonate extraction process and to train future operators.
