Automation solutions to increase efficiency and optimize lithium chemical processing for EV batteries.
Chemicals and fuels gas are costly. Inaccurate and unresponsive control of valve movement can cause off-spec product and unnecessary cost. Emerson Smart Positioners and valve analytics software continuously analyze performance data and maintain accurate and responsive control on valves and recommends corrective action to restore valve performance.
Fisher DVC6200 (or DVC2000)
The Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 instrument allows for your operation to run closer to setpoint, improving product quality with more accurate control. Using FIELDVUE Performance Diagnostics, valve operation is monitored online to evaluate performance and reliability.
Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ ValveLink™ Software
Fisher FIELDVUE ValveLink software allows your maintenance and operations personnel to monitor control valve health and performance online to improve reliability by spotting problems before they affect your process.
Rosemount™ 5408 Level Transmitter - Non-Contacting Radar
The Rosemount™ 5408 Non-Contacting Radar Level Transmitter uses enhanced technology and Human Centered Design to deliver accurate, reliable measurements on both liquid and solid materials.
Capacity Management with Digital Twin
Emerson’s portfolio of digital twin solutions delivers that foresight through dynamic simulation software that models physical environments, enabling you to perform advanced testing and train operators without affecting running processes.
The most common cause of downtime in refining operations is critical equipment failure. These failures can cause risks to personnel, unplanned downtime, and reactive maintenance practices. Continuous real-time monitoring of equipment using wireless vibration monitoring, predictive analytics, combined with reliable valves reduce ensure your critical mining equipment like hydrocyclones keep running reliably and safely.
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
The AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor delivers full vibration data over a self-organizing wireless mesh network.
AMS Machinery Manager
AMS Machinery Manager integrates multiple predictive maintenance techniques with comprehensive analysis tools to provide easy and accurate assessment of the machinery health across different types of mechanical assets in your facility.
Fisher™ V500 Eccentric Plug Valve
The Fisher V500 rotary control valve combines globe valve ruggedness with the efficiency of a rotary valve. It is designed to control erosive, coking, and other hard-to-handle fluids, providing either throttling or on/off operation.
Fisher Exotic Alloy Globe and Rotary Control Valves
Severe service control valves are used in the most difficult installations within your process plant.
The need to optimize operations to reduce energy usage and waste, and meet ever-changing emissions and environmental regulations is critical. By partnering with Emerson, you’ll gain the ability to identify root causes for energy loss and access better energy consumption data. This insight will enable you to achieve improved results and keep your refinery operating at peak performance while meeting all regulations.
DeltaV™ Predict and PredictPro
DeltaV Predict/Pro enables you to obtain greater throughput, reduced variability, and increased safety for your model predictive control strategies. DeltaV Predict/Pro is fully embedded in the DeltaV system which makes it easy to configure, validate, test and deploy.
Enardo Series 950 PRV with Flame Arrestor
Enardo Series 7 In-Line Flame Arrestors are designed to stop the propagation of confined low-pressure deflagrations.
Fisher™ 67C Series Instrument Supply Regulators
67C Series direct-operated regulators and filter regulators are typically used to provide constantly controlled, reduced pressures to pneumatic and electropneumatic controllers and other instruments.
Solutions to ensure safety and improve efficiency
Emerson’s leading measurement, control and electrical technologies, global network of application experts, and engineering solution services make the company the ideal partner in this emerging technology.
Emerson is an expert solution partner with the flexibility to meet a wide variety of demanding applications, from mining, refining, cell production and battery assembly.
Emerson is an expert solution partner with the flexibility to meet a wide variety of demanding applications, from mining, refining, cell production and battery assembly.
Emerson’s ability to provide technology, engineering and deep expertise across the Lithium Ion Battery supply chain, accelerates the development of EV Batteries as a viable sustainable energy source.
Frequently Asked Questions about Lithium Refining
Lithium processing plants are water plants, refining a high-grade lithium output and clean water that can be returned and re-used. Generally, the steps include concentrating a brine, chemical conversion steps to change the lithium form, washing, and final crystallization.
Critical raw materials used in manufacturing Li-ion batteries (LIBs) include lithium, graphite, cobalt, and manganese. As electric vehicle deployments increase, Lithium EV battery production for vehicles is becoming an increasingly important source of demand.
Lithium battery component (or battery cell) manufacturing is done in sets of electrodes and then assembled into battery cells. To produce electricity, lithium EV batteries shuttle lithium ions internally from one layer, called the anode, to another, the cathode. The two are separated by yet another layer, the electrolyte.
Every generation of battery design – cylindrical, prismatic, polymer pouch, and now, solid state - challenges technical limits and demands more from battery assembly technology. Ultrasonic welding solutions reliably bond the thinner, more delicate metals and advanced hybrid films needed to build more energy-dense batteries.
The extraction of lithium is currently restricted to Australia, Chile and Argentina and to a few companies, with only four businesses controlling almost 60% of global production. However, the boom in lithium over recent years has demonstrated that the lithium market is facing major changes. Alongside the expansion of existing facilities, large-scale projects are being planned and implemented in other countries, such as Canada, Mexico and Bolivia. Europe also has significant potential.
Emerson helps customers across some of the world’s most essential industries make measurable sustainability progress, and we stand poised to help others along the same journey.
