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the operating expenses (OPEX) for the large-scale production facilities. The cost of sorbent was estimated on the process successfully demonstrated at the lab-scale and based on production-scale efficiency. Table 6 below summarizes the estimated CAPEX and OPEX of a 20,000-ton-per-year plant for a brine containing 400 mg/L of lithium. Table 6. Project Costs Bare equipment cost CAPEX OPEX Revenue @ $12,000/ton lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) Source: SRI International $8,5 M $52.3 M $76.9 M $240 M Costs 20,000 MTA SRI’s estimated cost of production of lithium carbonate is less than $4,000 per ton and therefore competitive with that of traditional processes such as mining and evaporation. (Besseling E. 2018). The estimated payback of SRI’s process is less than one year, thus more favorable than mining or evaporation whose CAPEX is typically several hundred million dollars. Based on available online information, ExSorbtion, Inc. made an initial contact with the project’s principal investigator, and a collaboration between the two companies was established. SRI exclusively licensed the technology to ExSorbtion, Inc., which is currently pursuing commercial development of the technology. The company intends to further develop this technology with the demonstration of a skid-mounted system for the extraction of lithium from various brine sources, including geothermal brines. 24PDF Image | Selective Recovery of Lithium from Geothermal Brines
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