Standard Lithium Announces Delivery of Its SiFT Lithium Carbonate Plant to El Dorado Arkansas Project Site
July 15 2021 - 7:00AM
Standard Lithium Ltd. (“Standard Lithium” or
the “Company”) (TSXV: SLI) (NYSE: SLI) (FRA: S5L), an innovative
technology and lithium project development company today announced
the delivery of its ‘SiFT’ lithium carbonate plant to the El Dorado
Arkansas project site, located at the LANXESS South Plant facility.
The SiFT Plant will be installed adjacent to and connected to the
Company’s LiSTR Direct Lithium Extraction (“DLE”) pre-commercial
scale demo plant. The SiFT plant is designed to take the
intermediate product made by the company’s DLE process (a high
purity, concentrated lithium chloride solution) and convert that
into a battery-quality (or better) lithium carbonate.
The modular plant was sent as several
truck-loads and has been reassembled on its purpose-built
foundations. Standard Lithium and its team of engineers and
operators in Arkansas, assisted by the experienced on-site team of
Milam and HGA, is now reconnecting the modules, and making all
utility, instrumentation, control, reagent and process-flow
connections between the SiFT plant and the existing operating SLI
Demo Plant. Following the connections being completed, a
weatherproof structure will be installed at the site, scheduled for
later this month. Once the SiFT Plant is made weatherproof, then it
can be hydraulically integrated and site-specific commissioning can
be completed; note that the SiFT Plant has been fully commissioned
previously, and has been running successfully for several months in
Vancouver. Photos of the installation process are shown below.
Figure 1: One of the SiFT lithium carbonate
crystallization plant modules being lowered into position at
Standard Lithium’s Demonstration Plant in El Dorado, Arkansas,
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Figure 2: The final module being loaded into
position, with the Company’s LiSTR DLE Plant behind. Note the
climate-controlled container adjacent to the SiFT Plant, which will
be used to store battery-quality lithium carbonate samples produced
by the
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The fully automated lithium carbonate
crystallization plant has been designed around the Company’s
proprietary ‘SiFT’ continuous fractional crystallisation
technology, which has demonstrated to produce >99.9% purity
(also known as ‘three-nines’) battery-quality lithium carbonate.
The crystallization plant was constructed by Saltworks Technologies
Inc (see the Company’s June 6, 2020 news release). The SiFT plant
has been operating for the past year at a facility in the Greater
Vancouver area; processing lithium chloride produced at the
Company’s Arkansas site, as well as reprocessing technical grade
lithium carbonate sourced from South American brine operations into
battery quality Li2CO3.
Dr. Andy Robinson, President and COO of Standard
Lithium, commented, “Due to constraints imposed on our operations
by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have, up until now, been running the
SiFT Plant separately at a location in the Vancouver area. This
work has been extremely successful, and we have produced large
volumes of better-than battery quality lithium carbonate from
lithium chloride concentrates made by the El Dorado Plant. We’ve
also been reprocessing very large quantities of low-quality
material sourced from existing South American brine producers, and
have demonstrated that the SiFT technology can easily upgrade
off-spec material in a single, simple step. We’re now thrilled to
move the SiFT Plant to El Dorado, which was always our plan, get
the plant connected and running, and then operate the only
continuous, 24/7 start-to-finish brine-to-carbonate plant in North
America.”
About Standard Lithium Ltd.
Standard Lithium is an innovative technology and
lithium development company. The company's flagship project is
located in southern Arkansas, where it is engaged in the testing
and proving of the commercial viability of lithium extraction from
over 150,000 acres of permitted brine operations. The company has
commissioned its first-of-a-kind industrial-scale direct lithium
extraction demonstration plant at Lanxess's south plant facility in
southern Arkansas. The demonstration plant utilizes the company's
proprietary LiSTR technology to selectively extract lithium from
Lanxess's tail brine. The demonstration plant is being used for
proof-of-concept and commercial feasibility studies. The scalable,
environmentally friendly process eliminates the use of evaporation
ponds, reduces processing time from months to hours and greatly
increases the effective recovery of lithium. The company is also
pursuing the resource development of over 30,000 acres of separate
brine leases located in southwestern Arkansas and approximately
45,000 acres of mineral leases located in the Mojave Desert in San
Bernardino county, California.
Standard Lithium is jointly listed on the TSX
Venture and the NYSE American Exchanges under the trading symbol
“SLI”; and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol “S5L”.
Please visit the Company’s website
at www.standardlithium.com.
On behalf of the Board of Standard Lithium
Ltd.
Robert Mintak, CEO & Director
For further information, contact Anthony Alvaro
at (604) 240 4793
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