
Novel technologies
in seawater desalination plants to extract minerals and metals from seawater brines
Sea4Value brings together 16 partners from Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ukraine, Netherlands, Finland and Switzerland to develop and upscale technologies to sustainably mine raw materials from brines.

9 extracted minerals / metals
The main focus will be on separating, concentrating and crystallising Molybdenum, Magnesium, Scandium, Vanadium, Gallium, Boron, Indium, Lithium and Rubidium.

10 technologies
Sea4Value will develop radical innovative technologies for pre-treatment, concentration, extraction, purification and crystallisation:

Pre-Treatment
Nanofiltration membranes for monovalent and multivalent ions separation

Concentration
Advanced membrane crystallisation

Concentration
Advanced multi-effect distillation

Selective Recovery
Ion-selective polymer inclusion membranes

Selective Recovery
Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Selective Recovery
3D-printed adsorption modules

Selective Recovery
Ionic liquid solvent extraction

Selective Recovery
Binary extractant solvent extraction

Selective Recovery
Synergic solvent extraction combined with Solvometallurgy

Selective Recovery
Non-Dispersive solvent extraction
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