with ?️ Jim Rieke - VP of Process Engineering at Veolia Water Technologies 
? Veolia Water Technologies specializes in water treatment solutions while providing a complete range of services for industrial & public authorities

What we covered:

? How HPD onboards all its hires through its service and commissioning groups and how that's the best learning experience to Veolia Water Technologies' portfolio 
? How the milestone Naraha Lithium Refinery reference started through a collaboration between Orocobre (now, Allkem) and HPD and what was the step by step road to success 
? What's the magic that turns Lithium Carbonate in South America into Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate in Japan 
? How there might be standard building blocks but how every lithium carbonate is slightly different and hence requires a tailor-made lithium refining process 
? Where do impurities appear in a lithium refinery process and how to remove them to guarantee a battery-grade output 
? How extracting lithium from clay is still a very new process and what it changes in the lithium refinery set up 
?️ How Veolia Water Technologies' holistic approach is a key differentiator in the development of a lithium refinery 
? How geopolitics and government incentives play a role in the economics of a lithium refinery 
? How the newly wed SUEZ and Veolia offer an even broader portfolio of complimentary technologies to better serve the lithium market 
? How DLE "suddenly" makes much more lithium available and how HPD's lithium refinery process copes with the source's specificities 
♻️ How batter-grade lithium is just one of the outputs of a lithium refinery: Veolia Water Technologies' expertise also allows to valorize several more by-products along the way 
? How Veolia Water Technologies' involvement in projects can help get junior lithium companies get financed as a valuable reference partner 
?️ Building a Lithium Refinery step by step; leaching, evaporation, crystallization, ion exchange: the lithium refinery keywords; lithium refining in the broader scheme of the EV battery vertical; turning sodium sulfate into sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid; empowering circularity... and much more!

? ... and of course, we concluded with the ????? ???? ????????? ?

? Come say hi to Jim on Linkedin  
? Check Standard Lithium's website 
➡️ Check out the entire article on How 'Reverse ZLD' made the World's Largest Water Company a Lithium Refinery Expert 
➡️ Reach out to me: antoine@dww.show 

More episodes in this Series:
1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!)
2 - The Shocking Requirements of Spodumene Processing (and other Lithium 101 stories)
3 - Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success (and how that rolls out in El Dorado)