Development of advanced technologies for sustainable production of lithium salts and derivatives from salt flats in Chile - 2024/2027

The LiSE (Sustainable Lithium Extraction) research ring seeks to develop scientific-technological research to advance towards a direct lithium extraction solution (LDE) from brines based on previously patented preliminary developments. The LDE technology allows to extract the lithium ion from the solution in a selective way, leaving the other ions in solution and allowing to return the brine to the brine. In this way the LDE technologies developed by the LiSE group seeks to leave behind conventional methods of evaporation in wells that are demanding in water and environmental impacts and that do not allow the country to increase the capacity of lithium production in a sustainable way. 

Competition: Research Rings in Specific Thematic Areas 2024.

Project duration: 36 months

Director: R. Rojas.

Director Alterno: D. Diaz.

Investigadores Principales: A. Videla, A. Leiva, C. Núñez.

Investigadores Asociados: D. Ortega, V. Villalobos.