I am excited to announce that I have a new refining process for rare earths.
This process, (Patent pending) produces pure elements utilizing a unique and straightforward liquid purification process. The novel aspect of our technology is its ability to run the reaction in a liquid medium, near to room temperature, in minutes. It may be able to replace the current processes, with cost and environmental benefits.
Note: I am not a chemist, so this is somewhat speculative.
I started with silicon; however this process is a general purification process which can be applied to rare earths. When we apply our purification process to polysilicon production, it starts with a reasonably pure commercial chemical, so applying it to raw bastnäsite ore, may be uneconomical due to the large quantity (over 90 %) of other materials in the ore. Laboratory experiments will be required to optimize where in the sequence our process can best be applied. I expect that our process would probably be able to be best applied to the later parts of the overall extraction and purification process, once the bulk of the other materials are removed by other methods. There may be further application of the rare earths separation methods to separate the various rare earths from one another.
Now is the right time for us to explore this application to rare earths.
This process, (Patent pending) produces pure elements utilizing a unique and straightforward liquid purification process. The novel aspect of our technology is its ability to run the reaction in a liquid medium, near to room temperature, in minutes. It may be able to replace the current processes, with cost and environmental benefits.
Note: I am not a chemist, so this is somewhat speculative.
I started with silicon; however this process is a general purification process which can be applied to rare earths. When we apply our purification process to polysilicon production, it starts with a reasonably pure commercial chemical, so applying it to raw bastnäsite ore, may be uneconomical due to the large quantity (over 90 %) of other materials in the ore. Laboratory experiments will be required to optimize where in the sequence our process can best be applied. I expect that our process would probably be able to be best applied to the later parts of the overall extraction and purification process, once the bulk of the other materials are removed by other methods. There may be further application of the rare earths separation methods to separate the various rare earths from one another.
Now is the right time for us to explore this application to rare earths.
