【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】World’s First Brine Adsorption Project Launched for Commissioning from 2027 to 2025

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Let’s give praise and support to the achievements made in China’s chemical engineering technology and equipment; your participation in discussions is the greatest encouragement. **********************【Ten Years of Great Progress in Chemical Engineering Equipment】Continuous updates and summaries are available; feel free to join the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** The world’s first brine adsorption project has begun trial operation. Recently, the world’s first brine adsorption project – the third-phase upgrade project for the lithium production facility in Yiliping, operated by China Minmetals – completed its trial operation after 10 hours of stable operation, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent production of products and the full-scale launch of the facility. The Phase III technical upgrade project for the lithium facility is located in the Yiliping area of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province. With a total construction area of around 12,000 square meters, the project includes components such as salt field pumping stations, pipelines, and a lithium carbonate production area. Building on the existing production line that can produce 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate per year, this project will upgrade the existing production process by using the brine-based lithium extraction method, thereby adding an additional capacity of 5,000 tons of lithium carbonate per year. The third phase of the lithium project’s technical upgrade utilizes the \"Research on Efficient Lithium Extraction from Brine in Salt Lakes\" technology developed by Minmetals Salt Lake. This approach effectively combines forward-looking research in salt lake technologies with improvements to production techniques, thereby further verifying the feasibility of extracting lithium from salt lake brine and carrying out large-scale production. Once the project is completed, the overall lithium recovery rate in the Yiliping mining area can nearly double, the production cycle for lithium carbonate will be significantly shortened, the service life of the mine will be extended, and the production costs of lithium carbonate will continue to decline.