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US 2025/0121329 A1Published application
Modular extraction apparatus
AssigneeInternational Battery Metals, Ltd.
InventorJohn L. BURBA
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Abstract
Apparatuses and methods for extracting desired chemical species including, without limitation, lithium, specific lithium species, and/or other chemical compounds from input flows in a modular unit. The input flows may be raw materials in which lithium metal and/or lithium species are dissolved and/or extracted. The apparatuses and methods may include daisy chain flow through separate tanks, a column array, and/or combinations thereof.
Claims20
A modular extraction system, comprising:
- at least one tank;
- one or more valves for selectively directing a brine input stream and a second stream to the at least one tank;
- an amount of sorbent material contained within the at least one tank, in which the sorbent material extracts at least one constituent from the brine input stream;
- and
- a concentration membrane for processing the extracted at least one constituent in the second stream into at least one output stream,
- an wherein the at least one tank and the concentration membrane are sized such that the modular extraction system is mobile, and
- an wherein the at least one tank is configured to maintain a substantially sharp concentration profile between the brine input stream and the second stream that is presented to the sorbent material and travels along at least a portion of a length of the at least one tank.
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A method comprising:
- accessing a brine input stream and a second stream;
- selectively directing the brine input stream to at least one tank of a modular extraction system;
- extracting, by a sorbent material contained within the at least one tank, a constituent from the brine input stream;
- selectively directing the second stream through at least a portion of a length of the at least one tank to expose the second stream to the sorbent material, wherein the tank is configured to provide a substantially sharp concentration profile between the brine input stream and the second stream that is flowed through the at least a portion of the length of the at least one tank and the second stream is configured to strip the constituent from the sorbent material;
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- processing, by a concentration membrane of the modular extraction system, the extracted constituent into an output stream, wherein the tank and the concentration membrane are sized such that the modular extraction system is mobile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.