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Metso Outotec launches battery metals AC filter

Filter is used with smaller side streams of copper

Modular AC filtration technology is designed for smaller side streams of copper

Modular AC filtration technology is designed for smaller side streams of copper

Finnish mining equipment specialist Metso Outotec has released an Activated Carbon (AC) filter specifically designed for use with battery chemicals as part of a recycling process.

Metso Outotec said the AC filter was designed in response to the market's increasing demand for battery metals processing technologies.

The filter is used with smaller side streams of copper and other metal-loaded aqueous streams, and is specifically suited for efficient organics removal before the electrowinning and crystallization processes.

The AC filter utilizes the design of the Metso Outotec DM filter product family, noted the firm, and is suitable for both greenfield and brownfield installations.

"This launch will strengthen our capability to serve a large variety of industries and processes. Together with the Dual Media (DM) filter, Metso Outotec now has a complete filtration portfolio for solvent extraction (SX), electrowinning (EW) and crystallization processes. We have strong know-how from the hydrometallurgical industry with more than 50 successful filtration solutions references from SX and crystallization processes globally," says Mika Vuorikari, Director of Industrial Filtration at Metso Outotec.

Metso Outotec's positioning in the battery space was boosted last December when it signed an agreement with Li-Cycle North America Hub to supply manganese, cobalt and nickel solvent extraction technology for a battery recycling plant to be built in Rochester, New York, United States.

 

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