en.Wedoany.com Reported - U.S. industrial water treatment company Aquatech has announced the launch of the PEARL™ technology platform, designed to help lithium developers reduce capital intensity and operating costs while delivering projects with greater certainty. This platform is a proven end-to-end lithium processing solution that integrates full-process optimization, modular delivery, and lifecycle performance management, reducing total capital and operating costs by over 20% compared to traditional methods. It also provides cost and schedule certainty, long-term operational reliability, and replaces fragmented multi-vendor delivery models with a unified approach. The platform reduces interface risks, enhances execution certainty, and establishes a repeatable path to scale. Currently, Aquatech is executing over 100,000 tons per year of lithium capacity in the Americas, continuing to support resource owners in transitioning to standardized, scalable delivery models to reduce risk and improve capital efficiency.
Venkee Sharma, Executive Chairman of Aquatech, stated that developers and resource owners need a toolkit that spans from brine to battery-grade lithium. The PEARL platform is designed to address core challenges such as high costs, technical performance risks, and cost and schedule certainty, and he believes PEARL is a disruptor in accelerating lithium production. The PEARL platform adopts a modular architecture covering the entire project lifecycle, including five core services: PEARL™ Origin for resource treatability assessment to accelerate investment-grade feasibility studies; PEARL™ Core as a fully integrated lithium processing solution encompassing key equipment and DLE media, with licensing and guarantees; PEARL™ Train as factory-manufactured lithium processing modules that compress project schedules and reduce installation costs; PEARL™ Pure for ongoing operational support, providing media, membranes, and consumables to maintain product purity and lithium recovery rates; and PEARL™ Vision, which leverages advanced sensing and AI-based digital twins for continuous operational intelligence to improve recovery rates, uptime, and lifecycle efficiency.
By removing barriers of high project costs and technical performance risks, PEARL™ provides resource owners and developers with a clear path to produce battery-grade lithium from any brine resource. Aquatech executes over 100,000 tons per year of lithium and critical mineral processing capacity globally, and its PEARL™ technology licensing platform covers direct lithium extraction, refining and purification, process design, modular execution, and digital optimization, offering comprehensive processing solutions. With over 45 years of experience in solving complex water and process challenges, the company provides reliable delivery for critical mineral and lithium processing.
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