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Chemical plant · Australia

Kwinana Lithium Hydroxide Plant

One of the first battery-grade lithium hydroxide plants built outside China.

Kwinana Beach Rd looking NE to Coogee · User:Orderinchaos · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Building conversion capacity next to the mine was meant to be the obvious move. Kwinana showed how hard it is: commissioning a lithium chemical plant to battery specification took years.

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Lithium

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Australian spodumene to a battery, the fast way Eight weeks instead of eighteen months, at the cost of a great deal more energy.

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Lithium to Electric Vehicle

From a salt flat or a granite pegmatite to the pack under a car floor.

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Kwinana Lithium Hydroxide Plant

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Lithium to Electric Vehicle

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