Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining

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Baspineiro, Celso Fernando; Flexer, Victoria
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2024
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Lithium mining from brines raise environmental issues due to huge volumes of both saline and freshwater being constantly pumped in desertic environments. Data indicating the slow depletion of both underground water levels and lagoon surfaces in the regions where large lithium brine mining exploitations are located have recently being disclosed. Amongst different direct lithium extraction methodologies, DLE, for more sustainable lithium recovery, a few proposals aim at the recovery of freshwater from the high salinity brines. About 900 kg of freshwater could potentially be recovered per cubic meter of processed native brine. The water evaporation and freshwater production capabilities of a simple and an active solar still are compared in this work. These are two simple and relatively low-cost technologies that could be adapted to existing solar evaporation ponds. The two systems were thermodynamically modelled. Equations were derived which were fed with real meteorological data from the Olaroz salt lake location and brine properties derived from the Pitzer model for the said brine. Analysis of the heat fluxes show that the behavior of both systems is relatively similar with large heat losses that are responsible for neither of the systems reaching the evaporation rate of the evaporation ponds.
Fil: Baspineiro, Celso Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; Argentina
Fil: Flexer, Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; Argentina
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Hydrometallurgy
Sustainable mining
Freshwater production
Direct Solar Desalination
Energy storage
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spelling Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine miningBaspineiro, Celso FernandoFlexer, VictoriaHydrometallurgySustainable miningFreshwater productionDirect Solar DesalinationEnergy storagehttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2Lithium mining from brines raise environmental issues due to huge volumes of both saline and freshwater being constantly pumped in desertic environments. Data indicating the slow depletion of both underground water levels and lagoon surfaces in the regions where large lithium brine mining exploitations are located have recently being disclosed. Amongst different direct lithium extraction methodologies, DLE, for more sustainable lithium recovery, a few proposals aim at the recovery of freshwater from the high salinity brines. About 900 kg of freshwater could potentially be recovered per cubic meter of processed native brine. The water evaporation and freshwater production capabilities of a simple and an active solar still are compared in this work. These are two simple and relatively low-cost technologies that could be adapted to existing solar evaporation ponds. The two systems were thermodynamically modelled. Equations were derived which were fed with real meteorological data from the Olaroz salt lake location and brine properties derived from the Pitzer model for the said brine. Analysis of the heat fluxes show that the behavior of both systems is relatively similar with large heat losses that are responsible for neither of the systems reaching the evaporation rate of the evaporation ponds.Fil: Baspineiro, Celso Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; ArgentinaFil: Flexer, Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; ArgentinaElsevier2024-06info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/251535Baspineiro, Celso Fernando; Flexer, Victoria; Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining; Elsevier; Next Sustainability; 4; 6-2024; 100055-1000682949-8236CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100055info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:01:30Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/251535instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:01:31.168CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
title Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
spellingShingle Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
Baspineiro, Celso Fernando
Hydrometallurgy
Sustainable mining
Freshwater production
Direct Solar Desalination
Energy storage
title_short Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
title_full Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
title_fullStr Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
title_sort Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Baspineiro, Celso Fernando
Flexer, Victoria
author Baspineiro, Celso Fernando
author_facet Baspineiro, Celso Fernando
Flexer, Victoria
author_role author
author2 Flexer, Victoria
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Hydrometallurgy
Sustainable mining
Freshwater production
Direct Solar Desalination
Energy storage
topic Hydrometallurgy
Sustainable mining
Freshwater production
Direct Solar Desalination
Energy storage
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Lithium mining from brines raise environmental issues due to huge volumes of both saline and freshwater being constantly pumped in desertic environments. Data indicating the slow depletion of both underground water levels and lagoon surfaces in the regions where large lithium brine mining exploitations are located have recently being disclosed. Amongst different direct lithium extraction methodologies, DLE, for more sustainable lithium recovery, a few proposals aim at the recovery of freshwater from the high salinity brines. About 900 kg of freshwater could potentially be recovered per cubic meter of processed native brine. The water evaporation and freshwater production capabilities of a simple and an active solar still are compared in this work. These are two simple and relatively low-cost technologies that could be adapted to existing solar evaporation ponds. The two systems were thermodynamically modelled. Equations were derived which were fed with real meteorological data from the Olaroz salt lake location and brine properties derived from the Pitzer model for the said brine. Analysis of the heat fluxes show that the behavior of both systems is relatively similar with large heat losses that are responsible for neither of the systems reaching the evaporation rate of the evaporation ponds.
Fil: Baspineiro, Celso Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; Argentina
Fil: Flexer, Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy. - Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Materiales Avanzados y Almacenamiento de Energia de Jujuy; Argentina
description Lithium mining from brines raise environmental issues due to huge volumes of both saline and freshwater being constantly pumped in desertic environments. Data indicating the slow depletion of both underground water levels and lagoon surfaces in the regions where large lithium brine mining exploitations are located have recently being disclosed. Amongst different direct lithium extraction methodologies, DLE, for more sustainable lithium recovery, a few proposals aim at the recovery of freshwater from the high salinity brines. About 900 kg of freshwater could potentially be recovered per cubic meter of processed native brine. The water evaporation and freshwater production capabilities of a simple and an active solar still are compared in this work. These are two simple and relatively low-cost technologies that could be adapted to existing solar evaporation ponds. The two systems were thermodynamically modelled. Equations were derived which were fed with real meteorological data from the Olaroz salt lake location and brine properties derived from the Pitzer model for the said brine. Analysis of the heat fluxes show that the behavior of both systems is relatively similar with large heat losses that are responsible for neither of the systems reaching the evaporation rate of the evaporation ponds.
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Baspineiro, Celso Fernando; Flexer, Victoria; Comparison of simple and active solar stills for freshwater recovery during lithium brine mining; Elsevier; Next Sustainability; 4; 6-2024; 100055-100068
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