MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527059649 A) filed by Element Limited, Perth, Australia, on June 21, for 'process for the recovery of manganese.'
Inventor(s) include Graham, Neil Jonathan; and Lima, Leon Wesley.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for the recovery of manganese from a manganese containing material, the method comprising the steps of: (i) subjecting the manganese containing material to an acid leach step comprising contacting the manganese containing material with an acidic leach solution to produce a leach slurry containing a pregnant leach solution and undissolved solids; (ii) subjecting the pregnant leach solution to a pressure precipitation step, comprising maintaining the pregnant leach solution at elevated temperature and pressure for a time sufficient to precipitate impurities from the pregnant leach solution; (iii) passing the product of step (ii) to a solids/liquid separation step to substantially remove the precipitated impurities and produce a purified pregnant leach solution; and (iv) recovering manganese from the purified pregnant leach solution."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/AU2023/051202.
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