Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics

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This work evaluates, develops and demonstrates flexible, scalable mineral extraction technology for geothermal brines based upon solid phase sorbent materials with a specific focus upon rare earth elements (REEs). The selected organic and inorganic sorbent materials demonstrated high performance for collection of trace REEs, precious and valuable metals beyond commercially available sorbents. This report details the organic and inorganic sorbent uptake, performance, and collection efficiency results for La, Eu, Ho, Ag, Cu and Zn, as well as the characterization of these select sorbent materials.

The report also contains estimated costs from an in-depth techno-economic analysis of a scaled up separation process. The estimated financial payback period for installing this equipment varies between 3.3 to 5.7 years depending on the brine flow rate of the geothermal resource.

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TY - DATA AB - This work evaluates, develops and demonstrates flexible, scalable mineral extraction technology for geothermal brines based upon solid phase sorbent materials with a specific focus upon rare earth elements (REEs). The selected organic and inorganic sorbent materials demonstrated high performance for collection of trace REEs, precious and valuable metals beyond commercially available sorbents. This report details the organic and inorganic sorbent uptake, performance, and collection efficiency results for La, Eu, Ho, Ag, Cu and Zn, as well as the characterization of these select sorbent materials. The report also contains estimated costs from an in-depth techno-economic analysis of a scaled up separation process. The estimated financial payback period for installing this equipment varies between 3.3 to 5.7 years depending on the brine flow rate of the geothermal resource. AU - Addleman, Shane A2 - Chouyyok, Wilaiwan A3 - Palo, Daniel A4 - Dunn, Brad M. A5 - Brann, Michelle A6 - Billingsley, Gary A7 - Johnson, Darren A8 - Nell, Kara M. DB - Geothermal Data Repository DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - 10.15121/1360763 KW - geothermal KW - Sorbents KW - Nano KW - rare earth elements KW - REEs KW - precious metals KW - mineral recovery KW - green mining KW - Inorganic sorbent removal efficiency KW - Organic Sorbent removal efficiency KW - composite thin film KW - Technoeconomics KW - Lanthanum KW - Europium KW - Holmium KW - Silver KW - Copper KW - Zinc LA - English DA - 2017/05/25 PY - 2017 PB - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory T1 - Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics UR - https://doi.org/10.15121/1360763 ER -
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Addleman, Shane, et al. Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 25 May, 2017, Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1360763.
Addleman, S., Chouyyok, W., Palo, D., Dunn, B., Brann, M., Billingsley, G., Johnson, D., & Nell, K. (2017). Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics. [Data set]. Geothermal Data Repository. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.15121/1360763
Addleman, Shane, Wilaiwan Chouyyok, Daniel Palo, Brad M. Dunn, Michelle Brann, Gary Billingsley, Darren Johnson, and Kara M. Nell. Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, May, 25, 2017. Distributed by Geothermal Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15121/1360763
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The report also contains estimated costs from an in-depth techno-economic analysis of a scaled up separation process. The estimated financial payback period for installing this equipment varies between 3.3 to 5.7 years depending on the brine flow rate of the geothermal resource.}, url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/927}, year = {2017}, howpublished = {Geothermal Data Repository, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, https://doi.org/10.15121/1360763}, note = {Accessed: 2025-05-07}, doi = {10.15121/1360763} }
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Data from May 25, 2017

Last updated Jun 13, 2018

Submitted May 26, 2017

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Pamela Kinsey

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Authors

Shane Addleman

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wilaiwan Chouyyok

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Daniel Palo

Barr Engineering Co.

Brad M. Dunn

Barr Engineering Co.

Michelle Brann

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Gary Billingsley

Star Minerals Group Ltd.

Darren Johnson

University of Oregon

Kara M. Nell

University of Oregon

DOE Project Details

Project Name Recovery of Rare Earths, Precious Metals and Other Critical Materials from Geothermal Waters with Advanced Sorbent Structures

Project Lead Holly Thomas

Project Number FY15 AOP 2516

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