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

Dataset · Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15121/1236946· OSTI ID:1236946

Kinsey, Pamela M.

The 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. The nanostructured materials typically performed better than commercially available sorbents. Data contains organic and inorganic sorbent removal efficiency, Sharkey Hot Springs (Idaho) water chemsitry analysis, and rare earth removal efficiency from select sorbents.

• Research Organization: USDOE Geothermal Data Repository (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-2C)
• Contributing Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: FY15 AOP 2.5.1.6
• OSTI ID: 1236946
• Report Number(s): 686
• Availability: [e-mail]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Recovery of rare earths from sorbents
Sharkey Hot Springs aqueous chemistry
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