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Great Salt Lake Series Post 3: Mechanical Completion & Commissioning In September we hit two significant milestones at the pilot: mechanical completion and the start of commissioning! 🎉 The mechanical completion phase included installing all the Flash containers, ancillary tanks and equipment, pipe fitting, and electrical wiring to connect everything together. With that done, we’ve now moved into commissioning. Commissioning involves circulating water, pressure testing, automation testing, emergency shutdown protocol, and calibrating all meters to ensure everything operates safely and smoothly. Fun fact: This pilot is a 100% temporary installation! Once operations are complete, all structures will be removed, and the site will be restored to its original state. Next up: Lake brine commissioning! 🚀 Shout out to the Lilac crew in these photos including Katie Winn, Kyle Watson, Colin Kolbus, Suchin Patel, Spencer Hutchins, and Phil Cafaro! #lithium #criticalminerals #batterymaterials #electricvehicles

❄️ Brines are like snowflakes…each one is unique. We’ve tested brines from all over the world (80+ and counting) and have encountered a broad range of lithium and impurity concentrations. Brines can have a mixture of sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, borate, sulfate, and in some cases even lead and arsenic, all of which must be removed to make a battery-grade product. For DLE technologies, how efficiently lithium is captured and impurities are rejected impacts cost across the lithium flowsheet. Luckily for us, our ion exchange technology excels at selectively capturing lithium ions and rejecting a broad swath of impurities, including some of the most challenging ones like boron and arsenic. Because of the inherent properties of Lilac’s ion exchange media, our same technology package can be applied across varied brine types with consistent results. See data👇. This means we can adapt to different projects sites with a breeze. Learn more about Lilac IX in our whitepaper: https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq

Join Lilac's Matthew Ganser tomorrow in Salt Lake City, Utah at 47G's event, "Critical Ventures: Investing in National Security Materials." This event brings together innovators, investors, and industry leaders in the field of #criticalmaterials, and in our case #lithiumextraction.🔋

It was great hosting ENAMI Empresa Nacional de Minería at our HQ in Oakland last week and demonstrating Lilac's IX technology on their brine.

Catch Lilac's CTO David Snydacker on stage tomorrow at PRODUCED WATER MANAGEMENT's Direct Lithium Extraction 2024 conference in Los Angeles.

Meet David Snydacker from Lilac Solutions discussing ‘IX in Action: First Look at Gen4 Results’ at the Direct Lithium Extraction USA 2024 Exhibition and Conference in Los Angeles, California on December 2 – 3. Join them and others at https://lnkd.in/dH6d-ReB

Today at Benchmark Week 2024, Lilac CEO Raef Sully takes the stage as part of the Critical Mineral Symposium at 2 PM on the Garden Stage. Raef will share an inside look at building and commissioning a #lithium extraction pilot in the U.S. and working with tough brine chemistry. Don't miss it!

Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!👻🎃 Our Oakland team flexed their creativity including pumpkin carving skills and some serious Heavy Metals.🎸 Shout out to Jasmine Rippey, Morgan Dumm, Hernan Perez, Colin Kolbus, Madeline C., Venkatganesh Subramanian, Daniel Breach.

Lilac is honored to be featured in Positive Sum, Emerson Collective's magazine showcasing trailblazers shaping a more sustainable future. Our innovative lithium extraction process not only reduces land and water use but also strengthens the EV supply chain as we move away from fossil fuels. Grateful to be recognized alongside other forward-thinking companies making a positive global impact.🌱

✨ New Blog Post ✨ Direct Lithium Extraction (#DLE) technology has been through several hype cycles, and skepticism is understandably high. Overcoming the technical challenges of brine impurities and low lithium concentrations has been a tough hurdle to surmount despite decades of work with conventional LDH adsorbents. In our latest blog post, David Snydacker, Lilac President and CTO, digs into the materials engineering literature to uncover the intrinsic limits of LDH adsorbents and highlights a new path forward using ion exchange (IX) technology. #lithiumextraction #ionexchange #evbatteries #criticalminerals https://lnkd.in/eDApFFNB