Interfacial solar evaporation-driven lithium extraction from salt-lake brines for battery-grade Li <sub>2</sub> CO <sub>3</sub> production
Wenqian Xing, Deyu Wang, Kai Feng, Shihao Ding, Xinle Zhang, Haolan Xu, Jiang Gong, Jinping Qu, Ran Niu
Abstract
A three-dimensional solar evaporator with directional salt crystallization and zero-liquid discharge characteristics for simultaneous lithium extraction and freshwater generation from salt-lake brines was designed for battery-grade Li 2 CO 3 production.
Topics & Concepts
Extraction (chemistry)CrystallizationLithium (medication)Materials scienceEvaporatorChemical engineeringBrineSalt (chemistry)Inorganic chemistryChemistryElectricity generationDistillationSolar energyLithium chlorideMineralogyPhase (matter)Hydrogen productionAtmosphere (unit)MetallurgyProduction (economics)Extraction and Separation Processes