US 11,986,816 B2
Ion exchange devices for lithium extraction
David Henry Snydacker, Oakland, CA (US); Nicolás Andrés Grosso Giordano, Oakland, CA (US); Amos Indranada, Oakland, CA (US); Alysia Lukito, Oakland, CA (US); Mustafa Juzer Bootwala, Oakland, CA (US); Daniel Keane Laporte, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Christina Fleming, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to LILAC SOLUTIONS, INC., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by Lilac Solutions, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/859,875.
Application 17/859,875 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2022/025810, filed on Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/179,153, filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0349027 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B01J 8/02 (2006.01); B01D 15/18 (2006.01); B01J 8/04 (2006.01); B01J 39/09 (2017.01); B01J 47/022 (2017.01); C02F 1/42 (2023.01); C22B 3/42 (2006.01); C22B 26/12 (2006.01); B01J 39/02 (2006.01); C02F 101/10 (2006.01); C02F 103/08 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 8/0292 (2013.01) [B01D 15/1842 (2013.01); B01J 8/04 (2013.01); B01J 8/0453 (2013.01); B01J 39/09 (2017.01); B01J 47/022 (2013.01); C02F 1/42 (2013.01); C22B 3/42 (2013.01); C22B 26/12 (2013.01); B01J 8/02 (2013.01); B01J 8/0242 (2013.01); B01J 39/02 (2013.01); C02F 2001/425 (2013.01); C02F 2101/10 (2013.01); C02F 2103/08 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for industrial lithium extraction from a liquid resource, the system comprising one or more beds and one or more flow distributors,
wherein the one or more flow distributors are configured to direct a flow of a liquid through the one or more beds,
wherein the one or more beds comprise an ion exchange material, wherein the ion exchange material exchanges lithium ions and hydrogen ions, wherein the ion exchange material selectively absorbs lithium relative to other ions,
wherein the one or more flow distributors and one or more beds are configured to minimize a distance required to flow the liquid through each of the one or more beds,
wherein the distance required to flow the liquid through each of the one or more beds is less than about one meter, and
wherein the distance required to flow the liquid through each of the one or more beds is less than the diameter, height, or width of the one or more beds.