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Neometals to road test technology

NEOMETALS will test out a process that turns lithium refinery residue into synthetic zeolite in a two-year pilot plant project with the Queensland University of Technology after $2.57 million in co-funding was pledged by the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre.

 QUT's Banyo pilot plant

QUT's Banyo pilot plant

Called NMT Technology, the process has been used on residues from multiple feedstock sources. Making zeolite from lithium refinery residue could solve a common waste disposal problem in the industry...

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