Battelle, Rare Earth Salts Team on Department of Energy Project

Oct. 23, 2017 09:02AM PST

Battelle is teaming with Rare Earth Salts (RES) on a potentially groundbreaking project for the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The project, Recovery of High Purity Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Coal Ash via a Novel Separations Process, will produce valuable Rare Earth Oxides from coal fly ash, converting them to the …

Battelle is teaming with Rare Earth Salts (RES) on a potentially groundbreaking project for the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The project, Recovery of High Purity Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Coal Ash via a Novel Separations Process, will produce valuable Rare Earth Oxides from coal fly ash, converting them to the high purities necessary for a saleable product.

The two organizations will advance the development of REE processing by combining RES novel separation and purification process and Battelle’s Acid Digestion Process. Under this project they will validate that they can generate environmentally benign and economically sustainable REE products from domestic coal ash sources at purities above 90 percent.
The total funding for the project is about $875,000.

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