In order to comply with the expected tightening of discharge limits for lithium to surface waters, the lithium-ion battery industry will need access to methods to reduce the concentration of lithium in wastewater down to ppm levels. In this Communication, we discuss the possibility of using sodium and choline soaps as precipitating agents for lithium, comparing the two soap classes and probing the influence of the carbon chain length. It was found that lithium concentrations down to 10 ppm can be reached with sodium stearate, and down to 1 ppm with choline stearate, using a slight excess of the precipitating agent. However, in solutions containing sodium salts, sodium interferes with lithium removal, such that the equilibrium lithium concentration is proportional to the concentration of sodium in the feed. After precipitation, lithium could be recovered from the precipitate by dissolution in an ethanolic hydrogen chloride solution.
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