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US 12,275,650 · App. 17/613,481 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Processes for preparing hydroxides and oxides of various metals and derivatives thereof

Inventors: Thomas Bibienne (Montréal, CA); Nicolas Laroche (Pont-Rouge, CA); Jean-François Magnan (Neuville, CA); Guy Bourassa (Québec, CA); Mathieu Charbonneau (Montréal, CA); Mickaël Dollé (Outremont, CA); David Deak (Montréal, CA)
Assignee: NEMASKA LITHIUM INC.
C01G53/006B01D61/42C01D15/02C01G1/02C01G51/04C01G51/42C01G53/42C01G53/50
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Patent No.
US 12,275,650
App. No.
17/613,481
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There are provided processes for preparing a metal hydroxide comprising (i) at least one metal chosen from nickel and cobalt and optionally (ii) at least one metal chosen from manganese, lithium, copper, magnesium and aluminum, the process comprising: reacting a metal sulfate comprising (i) and optionally (ii) with lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and/or potassium hydroxide and optionally a chelating agent to obtain a solid comprising the metal hydroxide and a liquid comprising lithium sulfate, sodium sulfate and/or potassium sulfate; separating the liquid and the solid from one another to obtain the metal hydroxide; submitting the liquid to an electromembrane process for converting the lithium sulfate, sodium sulfate and/or potassium sulfate into lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and/or potassium hydroxide respectively; reusing the sodium hydroxide for reacting with the metal sulfate; and reusing the lithium hydroxide for reacting with the metal sulfate and/or with the metal hydroxide.

Claims (24)

1. A process for preparing a metal hydroxide comprising (i) at least one metal chosen from nickel and cobalt, and optionally (ii) at least one metal chosen from manganese, lithium, copper, magnesium and aluminum, said process comprising:

reacting a metal sulfate comprising (i) at least one metal chosen from nickel and cobalt, and optionally (ii) at least one metal chosen from manganese, lithium, copper, magnesium and aluminum with lithium hydroxide, and optionally a chelating agent, in order to obtain a solid comprising said metal hydroxide and a liquid comprising lithium sulfate;

separating said liquid and said solid from one another to obtain said metal hydroxide;

submitting said liquid comprising lithium sulfate to an electromembrane process for converting said lithium sulfate into lithium hydroxide; and

reusing said lithium hydroxide obtained by said electromembrane process for reacting with said metal sulfate.

2. The process of claim 1 , wherein said solid is a precipitate comprising said metal hydroxide, said precipitate being obtained at a pH of about 8 to about 14.

3. The process of claim 1 , further comprising washing said metal hydroxide.

4. The process of claim 3 , further comprising drying said metal hydroxide.

5. The process of claim 4 , wherein drying said metal hydroxide comprises drying at a temperature of at least 80° C. for a period of time of about 1 to about 4 hours.

6. The process of claim 1 , wherein the chelating agent is present.

7. The process of claim 6 , wherein said chelating agent is ammonia.

8. The process of claim 1 , wherein said electromembrane process comprises an electrolysis membrane process.

9. The process of claim 1 , wherein said electromembrane process is electrolysis.

10. The process of claim 1 , wherein the metal sulfate is a transition metal sulfate.

11. The process of claim 1 , wherein sodium hydroxide is used to increase pH and reacted with (a) said metal sulfate comprising (i) said at least one metal chosen from nickel and cobalt and optionally (ii) said at least one metal chosen from manganese, lithium, copper, magnesium and aluminum; and (b) said lithium hydroxide, to obtain said metal hydroxide.

12. The process of claim 1 , wherein said liquid further comprises sodium sulfate.

13. The process of claim 1 , wherein said liquid further comprises sodium sulfate and said liquid is submitted to said electromembrane process for converting said lithium sulfate into said lithium hydroxide and for converting said sodium sulfate into sodium hydroxide.

14. The process of claim 13 , wherein the obtained lithium hydroxide is separated from said sodium hydroxide.

15. The process of claim 14 , wherein lithium hydroxide is selectively precipitated over sodium hydroxide.

16. The process of claim 1 , wherein the obtained metal hydroxide is reacted with an aqueous composition comprising lithium hydroxide to obtain a hydroxide composition, said hydroxide composition being then dried to obtain a mixture of hydroxides.

17. The process of claim 1 , wherein the metal sulfate is obtained by leaching used batteries and a leaching solution for the used batteries is chosen from at least one of H 2 SO 4 , H 2 O 2 , HNO 3 , HCl, nitric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid, aspartic acid, ascorbic acid, or glucose.

18. The process of claim 1 , wherein LiOH is selectively crystallized by evaporative crystallization.

19. The process of claim 1 , wherein purification of the hydroxide is carried out by precipitation of hydroxides by addition of any one of LiOH, NaOH and NH 4 OH.

20. The process of claim 1 , wherein the metal hydroxide is doped with at least one of magnesium and copper.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2025
From: BOURASSA, GUY; MAGNAN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS; LAROCHE, NICOLAS; BIBIENNE, THOMAS; DEAK, DAVID
To: NEMASKA LITHIUM INC.
Reel/Frame 070363/0994 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2025
From: CHARBONNEAU, MATHIEU; DOLLÉ, MICKAËL
To: UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
Reel/Frame 070364/0101 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2025
From: UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
To: NEMASKA LITHIUM INC.
Reel/Frame 070364/0203 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 62854306 · May 29, 2019
Provisional Application 62851596 · May 22, 2019
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