Standard Lithium Commissions Saltworks for Design & Build of Selective Crystallisation Portion of Its Pilot Plant
Standard Lithium Ltd. (“Standard Lithium” or the “Company”) (TSXV:SLL) (FRA:S5L) is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Saltworks Technologies Inc. (“Saltworks”) to design and build a novel, selective crystallisation plant to make battery-grade lithium carbonate in a continuous process. The feedstock to the crystallisation plant will be the high-purity lithium solution produced by the full-scale Selective Extraction Pilot Plant previously announced by the Company on 26th March 2018. The crystallisation plant will be intelligently automated and will utilise machine-learning to optimise the crystallisation conditions. The selective crystallisation plant will be designed, built and tested in Vancouver, BC, and will then be deployed at the Company’s Pilot Plant location in El Dorado, Arkansas. This novel, continuous selective crystallisation plant is based on work conducted by Professor Jason Hein, a member of Standard Lithium’s Technical Advisory Committee, that has been demonstrated at bench scale to result in reproducible and high purity lithium carbonate crystallisation.