S9E3 - What are the 10 Simple Secrets behind Standard Lithium's DLE Success? - a podcast by Antoine Walter
from 2023-05-31T03:00
with ποΈ Robert Mintak - CEO of Standard Lithium
π§ Standard Lithium coins itself America's 21st century Lithium Company. They're expected to become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado
What we covered:
5οΈβ£ How Standard Lithium built a plan to grow to commercial direct lithium extraction (DLE) scale in five years
π How you can't take lithium extraction processes off-the-shelf and how you can't copy-paste what works on a lab scale for a commercial scale
π§ How there's an overlooked part of DLE: managing high brine volumes and flows
π How Standard Lithium "surprised" Lanxess with a lithium add-on to their bromine business
π€ How you need to know what you know but also know when to team up and get support to take your project off the ground
π° How Standard Lithium used a simple trick most companies wouldn't dare to apply: paying their partner to kick things off
πΊοΈ How the Lanxess project will serve as a Blueprint for replication across Arkansas' Smackover formation
βοΈ How there's no silver-bullet universal lithium extraction process and how you need to tailor it to your regional parameters
β‘ How to be future-proof and keep all options open to the evolutions in battery technology
π Why El Dorado, Arkansas is the absolute best place to build a lithium chemical business in North America
π How having a positive impact and walking the talk is key to be serious about supporting the energy transition and the EV Revolution
π Fluid handling as a boring but necessary evil, developing win-win agreements, relationships to Koch Engineering and Lanxess, California and further Arkansas projects... and much more!
π₯ ... and of course, we concluded with the π§ππ₯ππ πππ§π π¦πͺππ¨π©ππ€π£π¨ π₯
π Come say hi to Robert on LinkedinΒ
π Check Standard Lithium's websiteΒ
β‘οΈ Check out the entire article on Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success Β
β‘οΈ Reach out to me: antoine@dww.showΒ
More episodes in this Series:
1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!)
2 - The Shocking Requirements of Spodumene Processing (and other Lithium 101 stories)
3 - Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success (and how that rolls out in El Dorado)
4 - How 'Reverse ZLD' made the World's Largest Water Company a Lithium Refinery ExpertΒ
Further episodes of (don't) Waste Water!
Further podcasts by Antoine Walter
Website of Antoine Walter