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In-Situ Process for Sorption and Stripping of Rare Earth Elements from Simulated Geothermal Brine
Department of Energy —
Description of a conceptual commercial process to remove rare earth elements (REEs) from geothermal brine, based on a small-scale laboratory experiment to load,... -
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Method to Recover Media Ligand Losses During Sorption of Rare Earth Elements from Simulated Geothermal Brines
Department of Energy —
This document describes the method and results of an in-situ experiment used to confirm that ligand bleed from a sorptive media can be contained. The experiment... -
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Rare Earth Adsorption and Desorption with PEGDA Beads
Department of Energy —
We synthesized PEGDA polymer hydrogel beads for cell embedding and compared REE biosorption with these beads via a gravity-driven flow through setup. One way to set... -
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Rare Earth Element Biomining from the Great Salt Lake Brine Using Engineered E. Coli
Department of Energy —
This data describes rare earth element adsorption onto E. coli cells engineered to express a lanthanide binding tag (LBT). We used a Great Salt Lake synthetic... -
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Lithium and Manganese Uptake Data from Initial Set of Imprinted Polymers
Department of Energy —
Batch tests of cross-linked lithium and manganese imprinted polymers of variable composition to assess their ability to extract lithium and manganese from synthetic... -
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Rare Earth Desorption Test with Citrate and Bicarbonate
Department of Energy —
LBT (lanthanide binding tag) cells were grown overnight in LB media with 0.05% Amp. 1:100 subculture taken from overnights, grown for 2 hours. LBT was induced with... -
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Protocol for Regeneration of Ligand-Depleted Adsorption Media for Rare Earth Element Recovery from Geothermal Brine
Department of Energy —
Description of experimental protocol used to characterize the effectiveness of regenerating ligand-based adsorption media through the addition of ligands when media... -
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Chelating Resins for Selective Separation and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Low Temperature Geothermal Water
Department of Energy —
Study on the use of organic ligands to extract lanthanides from low temperature geothermal water. -
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Design of an Airlift Bioreactor
Department of Energy —
An important consideration for the process design is cell immobilization-enabled flow-through operation. Large-scale biosorption relies on cells that are immobilized... -
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Adsorption Heat Pump Coatings Investigation
Department of Energy —
In this study, a theoretical investigation was made to predict the performances of zeolite Y and SAPO-34 coatings for an adsorption cooling system operated by waste... -
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Experimental Parameters Affecting Stripping of Rare Earth Elements from Loaded Sorptive Media in Simulated Geothermal Brines
Department of Energy —
Experimental results from several studies exploring the impact of pH and acid volume on the stripping of rare earth elements (REEs) loaded onto ligand-based media via... -
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Fiber Optic Thermal Slug Experiments Conducted at Texas Tech University - Report
Department of Energy —
The report details a thermal circulation test at Red Raider #2 at the Oil Field Technology Center (OTC) involving staged hot water injections and distributed... -
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REE Adsorption Performance with Immobilized Caulobacter Biofilms
Department of Energy —
This submission includes data collected from experiments on the performance of rare earth adsorption by immobilized bacteria that accompany the FY18 Q2 and Q3 quarter... -
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Great Salt Lake Composition and Rare Earth Speciation Analysis
Department of Energy —
We have conducted aqueous speciation analyses of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) brine sample (Table 1) and a mock geo sample (Table 2) spiked with 1 ppb Tb and 100 ppb Tb.... -
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Comparison of Rare Earth Element Sorption Between Fresh and Partially Loaded Media Using Simulated Geothermal Brine
Department of Energy —
A study comparing the REE sorption characteristics of fresh ligand-based sorption media and media partially loaded with REEs when exposed to a simulated geothermal... -
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Gd Uptake Experiments for Preliminary Set of Functionalized Adsorbents (With Content Model)
Department of Energy —
These data summarize adsorption experiments conducted with Gd in 0.5 M NaCl. Results represent preliminary, proof-of-concept data utilizing fine-powder silica gel as... -
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EGS Collab Experiment 1: DNA tracer data on transport through porous media
Department of Energy —
This submission contains DNA tracer data that supports the analysis and conclusions of the publication, "DNA tracer transport through porous media -The effect of DNA... -
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Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Geothermal Fluids through Bacterial Cell Surface Adsorption
Department of Energy —
We summarized the FY17 and part of FY18 results of the analysis of the effect of several parameters (e.g., total dissolved solids, specific competing metals, pH, and... -
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Techno-Economic Assessment for Integrating Biosorption into Rare Earth Recovery Process
Department of Energy —
The current uncertainty in the global supply of rare earth elements (REEs) necessitates the development of novel extraction technologies that utilize a variety of REE...