Author Identifier
Mohsen Farrokhrouz: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-6894
Amin Sarmadi: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4461-6988
Mehdi Khiadani: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-9342
Amir Razmjou: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3554-5129
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Water Process Engineering
Volume
72
Publisher
Elsevier
School
Mineral Recovery Research Centre / School of Engineering
Publication Unique Identifier
10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.107593
Funders
Australian Federal Government through the AusIndustry Innovation Connections Grant Program (ICG002430)
Grant Number
ICG002430
Abstract
As demand and pressures to produce more lithium increases in the world in a more cost effective and environmentally sustainable, the existing proven methods such as aluminate-based adsorption should be adapted and combined with naturally heated brines to reduce cost, complexity and carbon footprint of production. In this study, an improved type of aluminate-based adsorbent was utilized to adsorb Li content of different brine sources, to show the relationship between the performance of the adsorbent and other factors in the brine. Different brine samples were synthesised from various geographical locations around the world to check the adsorption capacity of the proposed adsorbent. While the results showed that the brines from some locations have similar adsorption trends, the brine from other locations did not follow that pattern. It was found that the main reasons for such differences were total dissolved solids and the presence or absence of certain cations. Theoretical models and kinetics of reactions were also studied and confirmed the findings of experimental results. The findings of this research can be applied with high confidence to brine samples with similar ion compositions.
DOI
10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.107593
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Farrokhrouz, M., Madelatparvar, M., Boroumand, Y., Sarmadi, A., Khiadani, M., & Razmjou, A. (2025). Sorption-based lithium extraction from diverse brines using aluminium-based adsorbent. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 72, 107593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.107593