SWA Lithium Advances and Derisks DLE Technology with Field-Testing at South West Arkansas Lithium Project
Thursday, 19th December at 8:13 am
SWA Lithium and Koch Technology Solutions Teams Collaborate to Design, Build, and Operate a Field-Pilot DLE Facility to Confirm Engineering Design for SWA Project
Samples of Battery-Quality Lithium Carbonate Produced from the Field-Based Pilot Will be Used in the Qualification Process with Potential Off-Take Partners
EL DORADO, Ark., Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SWA Lithium, the Joint Venture ("JV") between Standard Lithium Ltd. ("Standard Lithium" or the "Company") and Equinor ASA ("Equinor") which is developing the South West Arkansas Project ("SWA" or the "Project"), is pleased to announce that, in partnership with Koch Technology Solutions ("KTS"), it has successfully designed, built, commissioned, and is now operating, a pilot Direct Lithium Extraction ("DLE") plant at the South West Arkansas Project. The pilot DLE plant is processing brine directly from SWA to confirm engineering design parameters for the Project and provide samples of battery-quality lithium carbonate for use in the qualification process with potential off-take partners.
Standard Lithium's Director and President, Dr. Andy Robinson commented: "The Standard Lithium and Equinor teams, along with our various engineering partners are working hard on the design for our first commercial lithium facility, which will be constructed in southwestern Arkansas in Lafayette and Columbia counties. To date, in order to support that design work, we have been using the huge amount of DLE and flowsheet performance data that we've collected at our demonstration plant, combined with testwork completed by KTS using our SWA Project brines. This field-based pilot DLE plant is the final step in ensuring that we have exactly the right data to confirm our design and be sure that we know how our commercial plant will operate once constructed."