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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

May. 04, 2023
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gary W. Sams, Houston, TX (US);

Dominic Vincent Perroni, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Prasanna Nirgudkar, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Florence Binet, Houston, TX (US);

Rod William Shampine, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Sandeep Verma, Cambridge, MA (US);

Wenlin Zhang, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 11/00 (2006.01); B01D 11/04 (2006.01); B01D 15/20 (2006.01); B01D 15/36 (2006.01); B01D 61/02 (2006.01); B01D 61/04 (2006.01); B01D 61/44 (2006.01); B01D 61/58 (2006.01); C22B 3/22 (2006.01); C22B 26/12 (2006.01); C22C 24/00 (2006.01); C25C 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 11/0415 (2013.01); B01D 15/203 (2013.01); B01D 15/361 (2013.01); B01D 61/026 (2022.08); B01D 61/04 (2013.01); B01D 61/44 (2013.01); B01D 61/58 (2013.01); C22B 3/22 (2013.01); C22B 26/12 (2013.01); C22C 24/00 (2013.01); C25C 1/02 (2013.01); B01D 2311/04 (2013.01); B01D 2315/24 (2022.08); B01D 2317/022 (2013.01); B01D 2317/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are methods of recovering lithium from dilute lithium sources. The methods include concentrating a dilute aqueous lithium source to yield an extraction feed having an extraction lithium concentration; extracting lithium from the extraction feed using direct lithium extraction in an extraction stage to yield a lithium intermediate; concentrating a stream obtained from the lithium intermediate in a concentration stage to yield a lithium concentrate; and converting lithium in the lithium concentrate to lithium hydroxide.


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