The Firm is progressing the Pre-Feasibility Research (PFS) at its main Laguna Verde venture which is able to incorporate the outcomes from intensive check work over six months utilizing the lab scale multivalve DLE system. As well as, the DLE Pilot Plant and downstream course of plant to supply battery grade lithium carbonate will allow the Firm to advance discussions with potential strategic companions who can assist the event and financing of the Firm’s initiatives.
Highlights:
- Supply of ultimate parts of the DLE Pilot Plant at CTL’s warehouse amenities in Copiapó means the pilot plant might be absolutely assembled and testing begins.
- Technicians from Sunresin are scheduled to go to on the finish of November 2023 for the ultimate testing and commissioning section.
- The DLE Pilot Plant is designed to supply as much as 1 tonne per 30 days of lithium carbonate equal (LCE) in concentrated lithium eluate which can be processed to battery grade lithium carbonate at an present third social gathering facility.
- Samples of the product can be made obtainable to potential strategic companions and offtakers, reminiscent of main auto and battery producers, for testing and product qualification.
- Just lately, a workforce from CTL’s senior management visited a number of DLE operations in China. The go to demonstrated how quickly DLE know-how is advancing.
- CEO Aldo Boitano, Non-Govt Director, Maha Daoudi and DLE Course of Supervisor, Rodrigo Rivas, visited DLE operations and producers spanning the DLE provide chain to see first hand the industrial utility of the know-how in China.
Aldo Boitano, Chief Govt Officer, CleanTech Lithium stated:“The current go to to China has proven me the good alternative DLE affords to supply lithium with an ESG led method. It’s clear in my thoughts that DLE is the best way ahead for lithium manufacturing if we’re to fulfill EV manufacturing targets.
The businesses we visited in China are forging forward with lithium extraction from brine with no evaporation ponds and this has offered additional certainty in our initiatives as we progress with the PFS for Laguna Verde. This necessary section of CTL’s development will assist with the discussions we’re planning to have with strategic companions in 2024.
The following six months goes to be a busy interval for CTL, with the mix of the PFS and the evaluation of outcomes from the DLE Pilot Plant making this an thrilling interval within the Firm’s journey.”
Maha Daoudi, Unbiased Non-Govt Director, CleanTech Lithium stated:“It has been unbelievable to return to China and see the tempo of technological development. With the assist of a neighborhood specialist marketing consultant with whom I’ve labored earlier than for a few years, we’ve got been capable of meet the Chairmen and CEOs of among the world’s main DLE builders to debate how we will apply their technical experience to CTL’s initiatives. It has been general a really constructive go to and offers optimistic views for the event of CTL’s initiatives.”
DLE Pilot Plant
The pilot plant is designed for course of optimisation and to supply a purified concentrated eluate that can feed the downstream course of to ship 1 tonne per 30 days of LCE for product qualification by potential offtakers and strategic companions.
The US$2 million plant has been fabricated in Belgium by Puritech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Firm’s DLE accomplice, Sunresin, who’re the main supplier of operational DLE amenities on the earth.
The ultimate cargo for the DLE Pilot Plant has arrived in Chile and can be transported to CTL’s warehouse facility in Copiapó the place will probably be assembled. Technicians from Sunresin are scheduled to go to on the finish of November 2023 for the ultimate testing and commissioning section.
The DLE pilot plant will course of feed brine to supply an eluate through which lithium has been selectively extracted and concentrated, whereas different parts within the brine are significantly decreased (see determine 1). The eluate will then bear a number of phases of focus and impurity removing earlier than carbonation into battery grade lithium.
Determine 1: CleanTech Lithium’s simplified DLE processing flowsheet
China Go to by Senior Administration
CEO, Aldo Boitano, Non-Govt Director Maha Daoudi and DLE Processes Supervisor, Rodrigo Rivas, lately visited China the place they met with a number of DLE operators and builders. Ms Daoudi has important expertise in China from her time at world main buying and selling firm, Trafigura, the place she helped develop strategic partnerships and important offtake agreements over numerous years. A key goal of the journey was to share learnings and developments of CTL’s initiatives, meet the management groups of DLE corporations and see the amenities of present operators.
Determine 2: Sunresin’s senior management workforce welcoming CleanTech Lithium to their amenities
Determine 3: Lanshen’s senior management workforce welcoming CleanTech Lithium to their amenities
CTL visited Sunresin New Supplies Co. Ltd. and Lanshen Expertise which included seeing amenities much like the Firm’s DLE pilot plant being assembled in Copiapó. This included a visit to Geermu, Golmud to see a resin manufacturing course of which is used for his or her three working DLE crops.
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