Controlled thermal resources, CTR recovering lithium from its hell’s kitchen optimization plant in imperial county, California.
After several months of optimizing engineering and process parameters at the company’s Hell’s Kitchen plant, CTR is pleased to report that its engineering team has improved several process stages, including optimization of the brine preparation stage, to achieve highly efficient recovery of lithium, in real-time, from the company’s live Salton Sea geothermal brine resource.
Rod Colwell, CTR’s Chief Executive Officer said.
CTR took an integrated design approach to optimize the recovery of lithium, and I’m pleased to report our team has delivered impressive results ahead of schedule.
“The plant will continue to run for a few more months. We intend to repurpose the facility to optimize recovery of other critical minerals, including manganese, in parallel with our Stage 1 construction program.”
“Our motto is to measure twice, cut once, and in most cases, we are measuring three times,” Rod added. “Designing an efficient, modular engineering framework means we can replicate these modular facilities at each project stage to scale up faster and more cost-effectively.”
Construction of Hell Kitchen Stage 1 is expected to commence this year, with the delivery of 49.9MW of clean, firm electricity and 25,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide anticipated in 2024. CTR’s total resource has the capacity to produce 1,100MW of clean power and 300,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent products each year.
CTR recovering lithium from its Hell’s Kitchen Optimization Plant in Imperial County, California., January 20,2023
