Empower EIT, a vertically integrated lithium technology and operating company, has begun operation of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) and conversion process at its new new 17,000-square-foot facility in Dallas.
The process turns extracted lithium chloride into battery-grade lithium carbonate. The company is aiming to make its first commercial sales in 2027.
Empower EIT ran five processing campaigns, each starting from eluate representing 40,000 gallons of brine, extending capabilities the company demonstrated on multiple domestic brine resources in earlier trials. The results of all five campaigns were evaluated by an independent testing lab, which verified battery-grade lithium carbonate at 99.68% to 99.91% purity.
DLE pulls lithium directly from brine rather than concentrating it in evaporation ponds, the slower method used in conventional brine operations.
Alongside the processing line, the Dallas center houses an environmental lab that the company says will support resource owners with brine testing, resource validation and the design of lithium recovery systems from bench scale through field-deployable units. Empower EIT says it has also shipped battery-grade lithium carbonate to a confidential offtake partner for final evaluation.
“The commissioning of our Dallas Operations & Innovation Center represents the culmination of more than a decade of research, development and technical optimization,” said Preston McEachern, Chief Technology Officer at Empower EIT. “Combined with the field deployments to date, this validates that our technology is ready to support commercial deployment.”
Source: Empower EIT
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