Empowering Lithium Mining with Precision Automation and Sustainable Digital Solutions
Drive productivity and sustainability across lithium extraction with advanced automation and digital intelligence
Emerson empowers lithium miners with advanced automation, precision measurement, and digital intelligence—helping drive greater productivity, sustainability, and profitability across every stage of lithium extraction and processing.
EVB Solutions in Action
Emerson’s solutions harness automation technology, software, and services to help industries achieve greater efficiency, enhanced safety, and sustainable operations across the value chain.
Enhance Production Efficiency in the EV Battery Value Chain
Emerson mining controls experts have developed technologies and solutions that increase the efficiency of your mining operations so you can meet your production goals—from optimizing hydrocyclones to avoid plugging and roping, to reducing loss with improved transfer chute monitoring, and improving recovery with flotation cell reagent control. Plus, real-time online vibration monitoring and model predictive control can address production loss and improve recovery.
AMS 6500
Emerson’s AMS 6500 Machinery Health Monitor is a versatile, scalable system that can be deployed in a variety of configurations to deliver online condition monitoring exactly as needed for the application.
DeltaV™ Fuzzy
The DeltaV Fuzzy function block offers a practical, field-proven substitute for PID control.
DeltaV™ Neural
DeltaV Neural gives you a practical way to create virtual sensors for measurements previously available only through the use of lab analysis or online analyzers.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Lithium mining presents unique challenges that demand innovative solutions for safety, efficiency, and environmental stewardship.
While there are a wide range in lithium extraction methods, two processes make up nearly all of today's production: spodumene ore mining and evaporitic extraction from the brines below salt flats. Ore lithium mining in Western Australia is currently the largest source of production today.
Most of the world's lithium is extracted from a mineral-rich brine around 10 meters beneath the briny lakes of high-altitude salt flats. The process begins by drilling down through the crust and then pumping the brine up to the surface into evaporation pools, where it is left for months at a time.