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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

Happy Monday! ?? Feels like a good day to unpack “cycle life” in the context of direct lithium extraction (DLE). It’s actually pretty similar to a battery: lithium ions are repeatedly moved in and out of a material, causing gradual wear and degradation over time. How long it takes to reach the end of useful life of that material = cycle life. For DLE, instead of the lithium ions moving in and out of anodes and cathodes, they move in and out of the DLE material to separate them from the brine from whence they came. Cycle life was historically the big challenge for applying ion exchange tech to lithium extraction, and for a long time folks just couldn’t get it past about ten cycles. Solving the issue of durability is one of the core advancements that Lilac has made for ion exchange, enabling this highly effective technology to be used economically for lithium extraction. ?? Our ion exchange material stands out with a durability exceeding 3,000 cycles—over a year of continuous operation—resulting in significantly lower operating expenses. In the end, cycle life really comes down to operating expenses—how much lithium can be extracted before the material needs to be replaced? Cycle life numbers are not apples-to-apples across DLE technologies, so ask your DLE tech provider about replacement frequency and lithium uptake from a batch of material. ?? Download our white paper to discover more about our modern approach to lithium extraction! https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq

Today at Lilac Solutions we had the opportunity to work on a project for Letters of Love ??, an organization that offers emotional support to children facing serious illnesses through personalized hand-crafted letters. It was truly inspiring to collaborate as a team on this impactful initiative. Plus, discovering the hidden artistic talents within our Lilac team was a delightful surprise! ?? #Teamwork #MeaningfulProjects #ArtisticTalents #lettersoflove

?? Proud to Be Among the Selected! ?? Lilac is proud to have been selected as one of only 8 companies from an initial group of 30 to support ENAMI Empresa Nacional de Minería in testing new methods for lithium extraction at the Salares Altoandinos project in Chile. This opportunity reinforces our belief that Lilac's ion exchange technology for DLE is among the best in the industry. Lilac IX provides a modern approach to lithium production, delivering higher lithium recovery at lower cost and superior product quality, enabling producers to make the most of their resources. We commend ENAMI for exploring new methods of lithium extraction that minimize environmental impact and for helping to advance DLE for the industry. We look forward to demonstrating the capabilities of our technology and contributing to a new chapter in lithium extraction in Chile. We can’t wait to receive our brine tote at headquarters and get to work! Woo! #DLETechnology #EfficientLithium #lithium #LithiumExtraction #criticalminerals https://lnkd.in/e4rFyHWY

?? Join us for a webinar hosted by Darcy Partners on September 10th. Lilac's Keerti Shukla will present data and insights on Lilac's novel ion exchange technology for clean, fast, cheap lithium extraction. A membership with Darcy Partners is required to register for the webinar.?Log onto the Darcy Connect platform to RSVP or grab a free trial membership at darcypartners.com. #lithium #lithiumextraction #criticalminerals #batterymaterials https://lnkd.in/eCR_y3Fj

Michelle Ma’s article in Bloomberg underscores the market headwinds that Lilac and other direct lithium extraction (DLE) companies face. While today’s oversupply has slowed the market, that doesn’t negate the projected shortage looming on the horizon. Investing in projects now will help bring new supply online in 2 to 3 years when the next shortage is expected to hit. For details on Lilac’s lithium recovery, impurity rejection, and cycle life, download our technical white paper now: https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq ?? #lithium #lithiumextraction #criticalminerals #electricvehicles #cleanenergy https://lnkd.in/gHRQA4nC

Great Salt Lake Series – Post 2: Pilot System Fabrication Today, let’s take a closer look at how Lilac’s pilot system is fabricated and delivered to site, and what’s in all those containers. Our pilot system, affectionately known as “Flash,” is designed, engineered, and fabricated at our Oakland, California headquarters and then shipped to site. Our skilled fabrication team starts with bare containers and transforms them into fully equipped units. They handle everything: welding, bracing, insulation, equipment installation, pipe fitting, electrical wiring, painting, and more. Off in a Flash! Once the containers are ready, they’re hoisted onto flatbed trucks using a sideloader and hit the road. Flash’s modular, reusable design allows for rapid site deployment on site. Upon arrival, the Flash containers are unloaded and then interconnected, commissioned, and tested. Inside the Flash Pilot System Flash comprises 7 containerized Lilac IX process units and 1 controls container. The 7 process containers are where the magic happens—they handle brine filtration, reagent preparation, lithium extraction, and water recovery. The process containers are all monitored and controlled from the central controls container. A Versatile Design Fun fact: Flash has a flexible design—it is equipped to go from one project site to the next and can be adapted for different brines. When the Great Salt Lake pilot is complete, Flash will be packed up and ready for the next adventure. ?? ?? Stay tuned for our next post and download our technical white paper for more info: https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq ?? #greatsaltlake #lithium #lithiumextraction #criticalminerals #batterysupplychain #batterymaterials #electricvehicles

Going to the Oilfield Water Connection conference in Pittsburgh this week? Be sure to catch the panel on lithium moderated by Lilac's Matthew Ganser.

The 90’s are making a comeback: scrunchies, crop tops, flannel shirts, overalls…and Lilac’s lithium recovery rates! What does it mean to have lithium recovery rates in the 90s? It means capturing over 90% of the lithium from brine, consistently across diverse brine compositions.?? The table below shows the initial performance of Gen 4 Lilac IX across wide-ranging brine grades and impurity profiles, from 70 mg/L Li to 2,210 mg/L Li, and varying levels of dissolved salts, including sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and boron. While those salts might make a great electrolyte drink, you need to exclude them to produce high-quality lithium concentrate. The goal is to maximize lithium extraction while minimizing other brine salts. The eluate concentration data presented in the table is measured at the output of the Lilac IX system, before any further downstream processing to further reduce impurity levels and increase lithium concentrations. Download our white paper to see more data: https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq ?? #90s #lithium #lithiumextraction #criticalminerals #batterysupplychain #batterymaterials #electricvehicles

Welcome! Today we kick off our series on building a lithium extraction pilot plant on the iconic Great Salt Lake in Utah. ?? Stay tuned for regular installments in this series covering the pilot build, brine stats, milestones along the way, and more. Great Salt Lake Series – Post 1: First Look and Pilot Purpose And we’re off!?We’re excited to share that we broke ground in June and our pilot plant is under construction on the Great Salt Lake.?The scope of the pilot includes brine pretreatment, direct lithium extraction using our Gen 4 Lilac IX technology, and downstream processing into a high-quality lithium concentrate. This pilot will showcase Lilac’s environmentally-responsible method of extracting lithium from brine resources. Our process does not contaminate the brine and maintains the lake’s water level—we send the same volume of brine back into the lake that we pump out, just minus the lithium. This is because our process does not need evaporation to pre-concentrate the brine—our Lilac IX technology will recover lithium directly from the 70 mg/L raw brine flowing from the lake. For context, 70 mg/L is about 10-30x lower lithium concentration than typical lithium production in South America. Good thing Lilac IX works really well on low-grade brines.?? The Big Picture: This pilot is an important step in the journey towards constructing a commercial-scale lithium production facility on the Great Salt Lake, also known as the Waterleaf Resources project. Lilac is working closely with partners and regulators on a phased approach to ramp up from the pilot plant to commercial production. Phase 1 of the commercial plant is planned for 5,000 tpa LCE and Phase 2 adds an additional 15,000 tpa LCE.?The combined 20,000 tpa would be a new domestic supply of lithium for the U.S. economy and is enough lithium for about 400,000 EVs. Together with our manufacturing facility in Fernley, Nevada, which will produce the IX beads needed to drive the extraction process, the Great Salt Lake project will help create a vertically integrated domestic supply chain of battery-grade lithium for the local EV industry.???? Check out photos from the pilot build including site prep, delivery of Lilac IX pilot containers, and Lilac’s Raef Sully, Mark Mulligan, and Steve Morrey on site. Stay tuned for our next post and download our new technical white paper here: https://bit.ly/4bbb0Cq ?? #lithium #lithiumextraction #criticalminerals #batterysupplychain #batterymaterials #electricvehicles