18686547. Harnessing Metal Ions from Brines (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Harnessing Metal Ions from Brines
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor(s)
John H. Lienhard of Lexington MA US
Andrew Bouma of Cambridge MA US
Danyal Rehman of Cambridge MA US
Zi Hao Foo of Somerville MA US
Harnessing Metal Ions from Brines
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18686547 titled 'Harnessing Metal Ions from Brines
Original Abstract Submitted
Targeted metal ions can be harnessed from brines by feeding a mixed, aqueous, brine stream including the targeted metal ions and other dissolved ions through a water-recovery module on a first side of a first membrane. In the water-recovery module, water is passed from a monovalent-ion-rich stream on a second side of the first membrane through the first membrane into the mixed, aqueous, brine stream on the first side of the first membrane to produce a diluted, mixed, aqueous, brine stream. The diluted, mixed, aqueous, brine stream is then passed through a valency-selective ion-separation module to produce the monovalent-rich stream, and a multivalent-ion-rich stream, one of which includes a concentration of the targeted metal ions.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- John H. Lienhard of Lexington MA US
- Andrew Bouma of Cambridge MA US
- Danyal Rehman of Cambridge MA US
- Zi Hao Foo of Somerville MA US
- B01D61/58
- B01D61/00
- B01D61/02
- B01D61/44
- C01D15/02
- C02F1/44
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- C22B3/22
- C22B3/42
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- CPC B01D61/58