Veolia Water Technologies is providing HPD® Evaporation and Crystallisation equipment vital to the operations of General Lithium Ltd’s new lithium hydroxide monohydrate and lithium carbonate plant in Jiangxi Province, China. General Lithium is a leader in lithium compounds production in China. The facility is the first of several new production units expected to come on line in the coming years to supply lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate for use in green technology products such as advanced batteries for electric vehicles and “3C” (Computer, Communication and Consumer Electronics) applications.
Veolia will supply three of its proprietary HPD® crystallisers to process spodumene rock into lithium products. Veolia is providing a unique Mechanical Vapour Recompression solution that enables the process to remove impurities to a very low level with low energy consumption, allowing a low cost production of high value products. Battery grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate will be produced in a two-stage crystalliser.
In addition to responding to specific technical and commercial requirements, Veolia proposed a fast-track approach to implementation to enable General Lithium to respond to the increasing demand on an accelerated timetable. The increasing production of lithium hydroxide is occurring globally, with current mineral- and/or brine-based operations located in China, Australia and North and South America. Reflecting the growing demand, the price for lithium hydroxide has more than doubled during the past year
