Process: Solvent Extraction
Effectively recover value from co-products using a proven liquid-liquid extraction process, adaptable to complex feed matrices.
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- Efficiently separate valuable elements from complex ores or effluents
- Identify the right extraction process based on waste characteristics and goals, whether recovery, purification, or decontamination
- Achieve high-purity final products, even from complex mixtures
- Minimize the environmental footprint of your treatment processes
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- Implement a tailored liquid-liquid extraction process to recover or purify elements from complex matrices
- Test multiple technologies, including mixer-settlers, pulsed columns, and turbulent columns, depending on your industrial constraints
- Achieve efficient separation even for elements with similar or sensitive properties, such as close molecular structures, boiling points, or thermos-sensitivity
- Reduce solvent consumption with optimized process cycles and extractant phase regeneration
- Rely on proven support for complex industrial cases involving uranium, rare earth elements, vanadium, wastes
- Accelerate scale-up from lab to semi-industrial scale with flexible infrastructure and experienced teams
- Treat waste and effluent, optimize processes, and recover by-products
- Ensure only an outgoing flow from your plant
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- Over 100,000 tonnes of uranium recovered in Niger (Somair and Cominak) using tertiary amine-based processes for selective extraction, even in the presence of impurities such as iron or vanadium
- Threefold reduction in solvent consumption through optimized extraction cycles
- Process under development for vanadium recovery
- Achieves very high purity levels, even for chemically similar elements
- Efficient treatment of high flow rates and slow reactions using proven technologies, including mixer-settlers, pulsed columns, and turbulent columns
- Modular process adaptable to a wide range of matrix types, including diverse forms, origins, and chemical complexities
- Capable of extracting nearly all elements of the periodic table, including sensitive or complex components
- Reduced environmental footprint through extractant regeneration and controlled consumption
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