How to increase energy efficiency of spodumene calcination applying CFB technology

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Following the increasing demand in battery metals, the production of lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide from hard rock is gaining importance over the traditional production from brines, with spodumene ore being the most frequent hard rock source.

Recovering lithium from spodumene concentrate requires an initial thermal treatment at above 1000°C to transform mineral into a leachable form. This calcination step, also referred to as decrepitation, can beneficially be executed in Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) furnaces, which present significant advantages over traditionally applied direct fired rotary kilns in terms of energy efficiency, heat recovery and maintainability.

Our expert, Mrs. Agnes von Garnier, will be sharing more information on how CFB calcination technology benefits lithium calcination in an upcoming webinar.

After this webinar, you will understand:

How CFB technology can be used for spodumene calcination, while significantly reducing the energy consumption compared to other technologies
When best to apply CFB technology for a specific spodumene concentrate
Which options for heat recovery can be implemented into the process flowsheet
How CFB spodumene calcination has been demonstrated at pilot scale for a multitude of concentrates

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Agnes von Garnier

Senior Sales Manager Metals and Chemicals Processing

Agnes joined Outotec in 2009 as a product engineering Energy after several years spent as research associate in fuel technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since then, she has worked in different roles in sales, process engineering and product management with a strong focus on fluidized bed technologies for combustion, gasification and pyrometallurgy. Currently Agnes is responsible for sales and new business development for light metals and fluidized bed technologies. Agnes holds a diploma in process engineering from Technical University Berlin, Germany, and a master’s degree in Science & Executive Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.

Theodor Beisheim

Product Manager Light Metals

Theodor Beisheim graduated 2010 with a diploma in engineering from Technical University in Munich, Germany. In 2016, he received a PhD in process engineering from University of Stuttgart in Germany. Starting as a research scientist in academia and continuing as a process engineer at Metso Outotec, he has gained more than 10 years of experience in designing fluid bed processes throughout a variety of fields incl. solid fuel combustion, CO2-capture, pyrometallurgy and calcination.

Today, he is working as a product manager within the product group Light Metals, responsible for Metso Outotec’s CFB calcination technology.