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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2021
Applicant:
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Inventor:
Mark Holtzapple, College Station, TX (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 17/06 (2006.01); B01D 9/00 (2006.01); B01D 15/36 (2006.01); B01D 17/04 (2006.01); C01D 3/06 (2006.01); C02F 1/04 (2023.01); C02F 1/52 (2023.01); C02F 1/463 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 17/06 (2013.01); B01D 9/0018 (2013.01); B01D 15/362 (2013.01); B01D 17/047 (2013.01); C01D 3/06 (2013.01); C02F 1/041 (2013.01); C02F 1/52 (2013.01); C02F 1/463 (2013.01); C02F 2001/5218 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a new and improved separation process that isolates individual minerals from brines containing a mixture of minerals. The brines may be derived from seawater, brackish water, oilfield brines, solution mining, mine run-off, and other sources. Typically, the minerals are recovered as chlorides using a variety of processing steps including evaporation, centrifugation, elutriation, filtration, electrocogulation, crystallization, adsorption, and chromatography.