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

Dataset · Wed Sep 30 04:00:00 EDT 2015

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

Kinsey, Pamela M. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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

Related Subjects

15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Inorganic sorbent removal efficiency
Organic Sorbent removal efficiency
REEs
Recovery of rare earths from sorbents
Sharkey Hot Springs Water Chemistry
Sharkey Hot Springs aqueous chemistry
geothermal
green mining
mineral recovery
nano
precious metals
rare earth element
rare earth elements
sorbent rare earth element removal efficiency
sorbents
technical report