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E3 Lithium’s Laboratory to Expand to Include Production of Lithium Carbonate
Highlights: E3 Lithium is expanding its Calgary-based lab to manufacture battery products, including lithium carbonate E3 Lithium plans to build scaled down equ
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[{"type":"text","content":"Highlights: E3 Lithium is expanding its Calgary-based lab to manufacture battery products, including lithium carbonate E3 Lithium plans to build scaled down equipment to validate lithium carbonate that will support the feasibility study and future operations The carbonate produced from this work will allow the Company to refine its process for battery-grade lithium carbonate CALGARY, Alberta / May 09, 2024 / Business Wire / E3 LITHIUM LTD. (TSXV: ETL) (FSE: OW3) (OTCQX: EEMMF), “E3 Lithium” or the “Company,” a leader in Canadian lithium, is excited to announce it is expanding the Calgary-based lab to incorporate the equipment to complete the polishing and production of battery products, such as lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. E3 Lithium’s development facility, located at the University of Calgary, has been operational since early 2021. The facilities' focus has been on the development and verification of Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) processing technologies. The internal team of experts has been beneficial in ensuring that E3 Lithium successfully completed the necessary steps towards technology development and selection, including verification testing of third-party DLE processes to support the design and decision making for the commercial facility. E3 also has its own internal analytics team that enables the Company to efficiently and quickly produce consistent results from the various testing processes. With the definition of the downstream processes utilizing chemical conversion to produce lithium carbonate and then lithium hydroxide, E3 will deploy the same validation, verification and optimization strategy to the conversion processes. This includes building scaled down process equipment that mimics the commercial systems to validate and optimize the production of lithium carbonate. The team will further investigate the necessity to complete the equipment to continue from carbonate to lithium hydroxide. This work will support E3 Lithium’s feasibility engineering study and future commercial operations. “Developing this capability in-house offers significant advantages in terms of result accuracy, cost-effectiveness and flexibility” said Chris Doornbos, President and CEO of E3 Lithium. “By building and operating scaled down equipment that closely mimics commercial operations, our highly skilled lab team will verify ...