Novel technologies
in seawater desalination plants to extract minerals and metals from seawater brines
Sea4Value brings together 15 partners from Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ukraine, Netherlands, and Finland 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 10 new highly disruptive technological solutions 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
News & Events
Converting waste from seawater desalination plants into a source of raw materials
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