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Lithium Extraction & Refining
Lithium’s essential role in powering electric vehicles and energy storage makes it critical to decarbonizing transportation. However, scarce raw material supplies struggle to meet surging lithium demand, driving miners to develop new reserves and achieve maximum purity in processing lithium-bearing minerals and brines.
End-to-End Process Solutions to Produce Technical and Battery-Grade Lithium
Lithium occurs naturally in mineral and brine sources, requiring tailored extraction methods. Aquatech is a recognized global leader in end-to-end process solutions to produce technical and battery-grade lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, and lithium salts. Aquatech offers complete solutions from raw lithium feeds to technical and battery-grade compounds, including:
- Battery-Grade: lithium carbonate (>99.9% purity), lithium hydroxide
- Lithium Salts: lithium chloride, lithium sulfate, lithium bromide, lithium phosphate
- Resource Recovery: boric acid, potassium chloride, potassium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium chloride
Why Choose Aquatech?
Applied Testing & Development
We optimize your lithium process and ensure purity targets through specialized bench- and pilot-scale testing tailored to your specific deposit characteristics.
End-to-End Solutions
Recognized global leader in end-to-end process solutions to produce technical and battery-grade lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, and lithium salts.
Proven Process Technologies
Bring 50+ years of expertise in evaporation and crystallization technologies to optimize your project from concept to high-purity project.
Customized Solutions
We engineer customized process solutions tailored to your product purification and resource recovery needs.
Aquatech's Applied Development & Testing Center
Located in Wisconsin, our Applied Development & Testing Center serves as the catalyst for advancing our process technologies. Fueled by a legacy of innovation demonstrated through the in-house R&D capabilities and the expertise of our process specialists, our capabilities range from comprehensive analysis, meticulous process decision solutions, and support for process development studies, testing, and the progression into commercial process development.
Solutions for Lithium Concentration & Processing
Aquatech Awarded Contract for Lithium Refining Process at Lithium Americas Thacker Pass Project
Aquatech has commenced work on the Thacker Pass lithium project, which involves multiple process trains incorporating evaporation and crystallization systems to produce lithium carbonate (Li2CO3), reaching our 99.9% purity from lithium-bearing clays.
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Controlled Thermal Resources Selects Aquatech for its Hell's Kitchen Lithium and Power Project
Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. announces it has engaged Aquatech as its technology partner to deliver the engineering and process plants for the conversion of lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate at the company’s Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility located in the Salton Sea.
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The Latest News
CTR Commences Construction at its Integrated Lithium and Geothermal Clean Energy Campus
Aquatech joined Controlled Thermal Resources to celebrate the groundbreaking of its Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility, where we are delivering the engineering and process plant for converting lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide.
Aquatech Awarded Contract for Lithium Refining Process at Lithium Americas Thacker Pass Project
Aquatech has commenced work on the Thacker Pass lithium project, which involves multiple process trains incorporating evaporation and crystallization systems for the production of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3).
Controlled Thermal Resources Selects Aquatech for its US$ 1 Billion Lithium Hydroxide Facility in California
Controlled Thermal Resources has engaged Aquatech as its technology partner to deliver the purification process plants for the company's Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility.
Aquatech and FTS Partner to Deliver The Next Generation of Sustainable Brine Concentration Technology
Aquatech and Fluid Technology Solutions have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at delivering the next generation of advanced separation, brine concentration, and water reuse solutions.
Export-Import Bank of The United States Approves First-Ever Term Financing for Domestic Manufacturing to Aquatech
The Board of Directors of EXIM approved a direct loan for more than $4.7 million, marking the first transaction authorized under the Make More in America Initiative.
Aquatech to Provide Egypt's First Integrated Zero Liquid Discharge Plant with ETHYDCO Contract
Aquatech has been awarded a contract by the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO) to provide a water treatment facility that includes the first integrated Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant in Egypt.
Venkee Sharma Poses Thoughts on Primary Issues Facing the Mining Sector with S&P Global
Venkee Sharma discusses how lengthy permitting processes and limited access to sustainable financing are two of the biggest issues facing the critical minerals and mining industry during Benchmark's Giga USA 2024 conference.