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.

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10 extracted minerals / metals

The main focus will be on separating, concentrating and crystallising Molybdenum, Magnesium, Scandium, Vanadium, Gallium, Boron, Indium, Lithium, Rubidium and Calcium.

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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Sea4Value @sea4value ·
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The year is 2022 A.D. Summer time is entirely occupied by vaccation. Well, not entirely!

A small group of #Sea4value scientists was meeting online and holds out against project obstacles. And life is not easy ...

Enjoy the summer! 🌊🔅

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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International Desalination Association (IDA) @idadesal ·
5 Aug

Learn more about how technology and entrepreneurship can quench our parched world, in this interesting article of Mr. Paddy Padmanathan, Vice-Chairman and CEO, @ACWAPower: https://t.co/04Q3U2Txp2

#IDA #Desalination #NonConventionalWaterResources #WaterforAll #SDG6

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Sea4Value @sea4value ·
3 Aug

Summer is here and the #sea4value team would like to wish a happy summer holidays season 🔅🌊

#seawater #brine #sustainability #minerals #metals

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European Commission 🇪🇺 @eu_commission ·
3 Aug

Freshwater resources are scarce and increasingly under pressure. 💧

We need to use this resource more efficiently.

Today, we've published guidelines for EU countries on safely reusing treated urban waste water for agricultural irrigation.

#EUGreenDeal

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3 Aug

Summer is here and the #sea4value team would like to wish a happy summer holidays season 🔅🌊

#seawater #brine #sustainability #minerals #metals

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