Noram Electrolysis Systems Inc.

Published purpose

The Project, a collaboration between the NRC and NORAM Electrolysis Systems Inc. (NESI) includes three work scopes. The NRC will provide NESI with a Lithium rich brine produced via two lithium extraction processes, a solvent-based approach and a Lithium leaching approach. NESI will process the Lithium streams using NESI's proprietary electrolysis and pre-treatment technologies. Then, NESI will take the electrochemical cell products and further process them by evaporation crystallization and other concentration and purification methods to form a battery grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM), a sulfuric acid stream, and a salt recycle stream. NESI will analyze the LHM and acid product and provide an impurity profile. Based on dialogue with NESI and results produced throughout the Project, the NRC will provide novel membrane composite materials for use in the NESI electrolysis cells. NESI will perform electrolysis with the novel membrane composites to quantify process improvements resulting from the novel membranes.