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Lithium Australia begins patent applications for game changing lithium phosphate production

Applications For Recovery Of Lithium Phosphate For Battery Manufacturing

January 13, 2020
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Lithium Australia begins patent applications for game changing lithium phosphate production

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Lithium Australia NL (ASX: LIT) reports that the international Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has published two of the company’s patent applications for the recovery of lithium phosphate from lithium-bearing silicates and solutions.

Managing Director, Adrian Griffin, said Lithium Australia’s Intellectual property (IP) is a valuable asset derived from the company’s research and development activities and its focus on delivering sustainable, efficient processing and production options for the lithium-ion battery (LIB) industry.

“The company has succeeded in developing technologies that improve the sustainability of, and reduce the environmental impacts associated with, the manufacture, use and disposal of lithium-ion batteries,” Mr Griffin said.

“Importantly, these technologies can facilitate vertical integration within the battery supply chain, potentially reducing the number of process steps involved and lowering costs for consumers.

“The ability to integrate metal recovery from lithium-ion batteries and regenerate cathode materials represents a major advance for the battery industry as a whole.”

Mr Griffin said production of lithium phosphate is a unit process common to Lithium Australia’s SiLeach and LieNA technologies which potentially reduce the number of processing steps to produce battery cathode powders

He said Lithium Australia has developed innovative processes for the recovery of lithium chemicals from lithium-bearing silicates and micas. In particular, these efforts have resulted in unit process enhancements that optimise the recovery of lithium from low- tenor solutions, while managing water-balance challenges, to produce lithium phosphate of a high quality.

The unit processes involved are the subject of the above-mentioned patent applications. 
Lithium phosphate produced by way of the company’s proprietary processes meets the specification necessary for its use as feedstock in the production of

Lithium Australia NL (ASX: LIT) reports that the international Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has published two of the company’s patent applications for the recovery of lithium phosphate from lithium-bearing silicates and solutions.

Managing Director, Adrian Griffin, said Lithium Australia’s Intellectual property (IP) is a valuable asset derived from the company’s research and development activities and its focus on delivering sustainable, efficient processing and production options for the lithium-ion battery (LIB) industry.

“The company has succeeded in developing technologies that improve the sustainability of, and reduce the environmental impacts associated with, the manufacture, use and disposal of lithium-ion batteries,” Mr Griffin said.

“Importantly, these technologies can facilitate vertical integration within the battery supply chain, potentially reducing the number of process steps involved and lowering costs for consumers.

“The ability to integrate metal recovery from lithium-ion batteries and regenerate cathode materials represents a major advance for the battery industry as a whole.”

Mr Griffin said production of lithium phosphate is a unit process common to Lithium Australia’s SiLeach and LieNA technologies which potentially reduce the number of processing steps to produce battery cathode powders

He said Lithium Australia has developed innovative processes for the recovery of lithium chemicals from lithium-bearing silicates and micas. In particular, these efforts have resulted in unit process enhancements that optimise the recovery of lithium from low- tenor solutions, while managing water-balance challenges, to produce lithium phosphate of a high quality.

The unit processes involved are the subject of the above-mentioned patent applications. 
Lithium phosphate produced by way of the company’s proprietary processes meets the specification necessary for its use as feedstock in the production of lithium-ferro-phosphate (LFP), a cathode precursor material in the manufacture of batteries for energy-storage system and transport applications.

 

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