US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Jan. 20 for "Method of concentrating lithium-containing solutions and recovering lithium therefrom" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,053, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Method of concentrating lithium-containing solutions and recovering lithium therefrom" was invented by Ramesh R. Bhave (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Syed Z. Islam (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Priyesh A. Wagh (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of concentrating lithium containing solutions includes inputting a feed brine solution to an initial separation stage, the feed brine solution including lithium sulfate and one or more of sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, calcium sulfate, and sodium chloride dissolved in water. In the initial separation stage, t...