The primary driver in the recovery of Desalination concentrates, Brine Solutions, brackish water,
fracking & other waste waters is the purification of
Clean Water.
Once usable quality water has been reclaimed you are left with the residual brine residues that need to be sustainably managed.
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A Brief History
For millennia mankind has harvested salts from seawater and in some societies salt was valued greater than gold.
Traditional methods of natural pond evaporation, or boiling off the water with the use of fire, yields crystallized salt.
Various methods of precipitating salts out of brine solutions have been applied and freezing salt water naturally drops the salts
out as ice forms.
Typical water
Desalination
operations have historically ignored the sustainable management of the brine concentrates.
Brine Residuals
The management of Brine Residuals is a multi stage procedure that is
outlined
in the Mineral Recovery and Refining process.
Mineral Recovery & Refining
Mineral Salts
- Sodium Chloride
- Magnesium Salts
- Calcium
Clays & Silicates
- Bentonite
- Feldspar
- Gypsum
- Silicates
Nutrients
- Phosphorus Recovery
- Nitrogen Reclamation
- Potassium Wastes
- Sulphur Recovery
Halogens
- Bromine
- Chlorine
- Fluorine
- Iodine
Metals
- Base Metals
- Precious Metals
- Strategic & Minor Metals
-
Lithium
- Rare Earth Elements (REE)
Other Materials
- Critical Materials Consolidation
- Trace Residues
- Residual Waste Materials
Mineral Recovery & Refining
The bulk of the
materials contained
in typical brine residues is Sodium Chloride, followed by smaller amounts of
Magnesium salts and calcium. The Mineral Salts along with the Clays & Silicates may commonly represent well in excess of
90% of the
volume
of brine residue solids.
Depending on the source of the brine, Nutrients and Halogens make up the next most common chunk of recoverable materials.
Once these common materials are recovered and removed, the remaining residual materials containing Metals,
which are typically considered as
trace elements,
become concentrated into a rich ore quality feedstock of interest
for refining and strategic resource recovery.
In todays market conditions, battery metals, such as
Lithium,
Indium, Gallium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Vanadium, and Rare Earth Elements are highly sought after.
Within the Mineral Salts Recovery process, brine electrolysys is one of the methods that may be explored,
this generates a source of
Hydrogen
and provides an opportunity for
Exothermic Element
Energy Extraction.
Brine Recovery Information
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