Redefined: Lithium Extraction
(No sorbents, no acids, no solid additives)
Revealing a ground-breaking process that extracts lithium and generates lithium carbonate directly from ground water, sea water, DLE eluates, concentrates, and brines, in a single step, just a matter of 10 minutes. It uses no sorbents. It requires no liquid chemicals like sulfuric acids. It needs no solid additives like soda ash. It consumes no freshwater. No post-evaporation (post-concentration) to enable carbonate conversion. No inter-facility transportation. Production right at the source. Fully scalable. It operates alone end-to-end or, if integrated, substantially lowers environmental and economical burdens of lithium production from existing operations such as evaporation pond, direct lithium extraction, rock/clay mining, geothermal power plants, and oil & gas production.
The best of all, it’s carbon-neutral even upon conversion at battery factories.
Redefined: Ironmaking
(No carbon, no hydrogen, no methane)
Revealing a low-capex super clean solid-state ironmaking process without using carbon, methane, and hydrogen. It rapidly converts iron oxides to metal while removing gangue and impurities from the iron ores at the ironmaking stage. If integrated to DRI, it can significantly improve the metalization efficiency of DRI processing while dramatically reducing energy burden and resulting slag waste.
No melting. No reductants. No chemical agents. No carbon in, thus no carbon out. No methane. No hydrogen. Enables true decarbonization of the ironmaking processes. Removal of gangue and impurities is conducted in a way to collect valuable minerals in useful forms.
The best of all, the process can be fully elecrified.
Redefined: Steel Scrap Recycling
Revealing a no-carbon no-hydrogen environmental process that removes scrap impurities and mixed-in elements such as copper to reduce energy burden on subsequent steel reproduction in electric arc furnaces. No carbon in, thus no carbon out. No chemicals. No reductants. Designed to enable decarbonization of the steel recycling. Removal is conducted in a way to collect valuable minerals in useful forms.
The best of all, it can be fully electrified.
Redefined: Slag Beneficiation
Revealing a molecular-flow technology that rapidly, economically, and selectively extracts electronics and battery elements from industrial fossil fuel waste, which are critical to enable the clean energy transition. The process induces no melting thus low maintenance. It uses no chemicals, no reductants, and no acids: very, very clean.
The fossil fuel waste, primarily slag and ash, is industrial byproduct from generation of power, chemicals, and metals, which is largely landfilled with limited utilization efforts. The fossil fuel waste however contains many valuable elements. Economical and environmental extraction of those elements has been a major challenge at commercial level.