Separation of minerals by gas injection
AssigneeGood Earth IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsJody G. Robbins, Luke Seed, Leonard Fraitag, Jaime Cohen
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Abstract
A system for separating a mineral from a clay using a gas injection module includes a solution tank configured to receive a supersaturated solution including at least one mineral. The system also includes a gas injection module in fluid communication with the solution tank and configured to receive at least a portion of the supersaturated solution. The system includes at least one gas injection port in fluid communication with a source of gas and the gas injection module. The gas injection port is configured to inject a gas to the supersaturated solution. During operation of the system, the gas causes at least a portion of the supersaturated solution to crystallize.
Claims18
A system for separating a mineral from a clay using a gas injection module, the system comprising:
- a solution tank configured to receive a supersaturated solution including at least one mineral;
- a gas injection module in fluid communication with the solution tank and configured to receive at least a portion of the supersaturated solution;
- and at least one gas injection port in fluid communication with a source of gas and the gas injection module and configured to inject a gas to the supersaturated solution;
- wherein, during operation of the system, the gas causes at least a portion of the supersaturated solution to crystallize;
- and wherein a crystallized portion of the supersaturated solution comprises lithium carbonate (Li2CO3);
- further comprising an osmosis system configured to remove at least one of metal ions and aqueous salts from a non-crystallized portion of the supersaturated solution.
A system for separating minerals, the system comprising:
- a shredder configured to receive and shred a material;
- a first crusher configured to receive the shredded material from the shredder and crush the shredded material;
- a magnetic separator configured to separate ferreous materials from non-ferrous materials contained in the crushed materials;
- a second crusher configured to receive the non-ferrous materials and crush the non-ferrous materials;
- an electrostatic separator configured to receive the materials from the second crusher and separate the materials by a first electrical charge and a second electrical charge;
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- a vibrating screen configured to receive the separated materials from the electrostatic separator and apply vibration to classify the separated materials by a particle size.
A system for separating minerals, the system comprising:
- a shredder configured to receive and shred a material;
- a crusher configured to receive the shredded material from the shredder and crush the shredded material;
- a magnetic separator configured to separate ferreous materials from non-ferrous materials contained in the crushed materials;
- an electrostatic separator configured to receive the non-ferrous materials and separate the non-ferrous materials by a first electrical charge and a second electrical charge;
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- a screen configured to receive the separated materials from the electrostatic separator and apply vibration to classify the separated materials by a particle size.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.