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Keywords: lithium, hydraulic fracturing, geomicrobiology, environmental geochemistry, water resources
Daniel S. Alessi is a Professor and the Encana Chair in Water Resources in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, who specializes in environmental geochemistry and geomicrobiology. Since 2013, his research group has focused on understanding the surface chemistry and reactivity of environmental materials such as iron oxides, bacteria, and biochar, on lithium extraction from oilfield brines, and on improving our knowledge of the water cycle in unconventional oil and gas operations. In 2022 he was elected a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2023 he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an associate editor for the journal Environmental Science & Technology .
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Lithium extraction using zirconium oxide coated lithium manganese oxide ion-exchange adsorbents T10-P06, T10-P09 University of Alberta Publication 2025-01-01 Karthik Ramachandran Shivakumar, Ashkan Zolfaghari, Salman Safari, Fangshuai Wu, Brendan A Bishop, Ning Chen, Leslie J Robbins,
Alessi, D. T10-P06, T10-P09 Surface modification coating for lithium extraction from field collected lithium bearing waters US Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 63/709, 596
This advanced sorbent meets the growing lithium demand driven by EVs and energy storage, bypassing the limitations of traditional extraction methods. A nanoscale coating on a lithium manganese oxide sorbent enhances recyclability up to 50%. This stands to enable scalable, direct lithium extraction from formation waters and sedimentary brines, opening up new lithium sources in previously nonviable regions, effectively expanding lithium supply options for the battery manufacturing market.T10-P06, T10-P09 University of Alberta IP Management 2024-10-21 Karthik Ramachandran Shivakumar,
Alessi, D. , Fangshuai Wu
T10-P06, T10-P09 Metal oxide sorbents for the sustainable recovery of lithium from unconventional resources T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2020-06-01 T10-P06 Lithium Recovery from Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback and Produced Water using a Selective Ion Exchange Sorbent T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2021-06-01 Adam Seip, Salman Safari, David M Pickup, Alan V Chadwick, Silvia Ramos, Carmen A Velasco, José M Cerrato,
Alessi, D. T10-P06 Hydrometallurgical processes for heavy metals recovery from industrial sludges T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2020-12-01 Viraj Gunarathne, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, Meththika Vithanage,
Alessi, D. , Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian, Mu. Naushad, Siming You, Patryk Oleszczuk, Yong Sik Ok
T10-P06 Cost analysis of wastewater production from conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2022-04-25 T10-P06 Selective extraction of critical metals from spent lithium-ion batteries T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2023-02-17 " Mengmeng Wang
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" Shanta Dutta
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" Marjorie Valix
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" Longbin Huang
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T10-P06 Recycling of lithium iron phosphate batteries: Status, technologies, challenges, and prospects T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2022-07-01 " Mengmeng Wang
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" Jörg Rinklebe
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T10-P06 Mechanisms of Thermal Decomposition in Spent NCM Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials with Carbon Defects and Oxygen Vacancies T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2024-01-01 Kang Liu, Zibo Xu, Mengmeng Wang,
Alessi, D. , Yuanzhi Tang, Daniel C W Tsang
T10-P06 Activating Carbon and Oxygen Bonds for Low-Temperature Thermal Decomposition of Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials T10-P06 University of Alberta Publication 2025-01-01 Kang Liu, Xiaohong Zhu, Yuying Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, Roya Maboudian,
Alessi, D. , Daniel CW Tsang
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