AI guides Telescope's ReCRFT tech to boost efficiency and environmental sustainability of producing battery raw materials
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 29, 2024) - Telescope Innovations Corp. (CSE: TELI) (OTCQB: TELIF) ("Telescope Innovations" or the "Company"), a developer of enabling technologies for the global pharmaceutical and chemical industries, is pleased to announce the publication of a collaborative research project in Digital Discovery. The peer-reviewed paper, "Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Optimization of Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Production", introduces a cutting-edge AI-driven method to increase the yield of lithium carbonate produced from lithium brine concentrates.1 The work provides a path to using CO2 as a carbonating reagent, reducing the environmental cost of the process.
Research was conducted in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada, McMaster University, and the University of Toronto. ReCRFT™, developed by Telescope Innovations, is a carbon-negative and low-cost technology that produces battery-grade lithium carbonate from direct lithium extraction (DLE) eluates. The present collaborative work introduced an AI-driven automated experimentation platform to rapidly optimize the conversion of lithium chloride to carbonate, using CO2 as the carbonating reagent. (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Simplified depiction of the AI-enabled workflow to optimize lithium carbonate yield from DLE concentrates. Reproduced from Ref. 1 with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry.1
Researchers were particularly interested in North American brine compositions, which contain large amounts of impurities and require multiple polishing steps following DLE, resulting in higher processing costs compared to overseas resources. The AI-driven automation platform developed for this study increased lithium carbonate yields to over 83%, outperforming traditional optimization methods. The efficient production of battery-grade lithium carbonate from high-impurity feedstocks can thus contribute to a more sustainable, on-shore supply chain for battery raw materials.
"By integrating our ReCRFT™ technology with AI-driven experimentation, we've not only improved lithium carbonate yields but also enhanced the sustainability of the entire process," said Ryan Jansonius, VP of Chemistry Contract Services at Telescope Innovations. "This breakthrough offers a crucial solution for addressing the challenges of processing North American brines, helping to strengthen onshore supply chains and reduce environmental impact."
The Company further announces that it has granted a total of 807,000 incentive stock options to certain employees, directors and consultants of the Company in accordance with the Company's Equity Incentive Plan.
The options have various vesting schedules at the discretion of the Board of Directors and are exercisable to acquire common shares of the Company at a price of $0.43 until October 29, 2029.
About Telescope Innovations
Telescope Innovations is a chemical technology company developing scalable manufacturing processes and tools for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. The Company builds and deploys new enabling technologies including flexible robotic platforms and artificial intelligence software that improves experimental throughput, efficiency, and data quality. Our aim is to bring modern chemical technology solutions to meet the most serious challenges in health and sustainability.
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1 Mousavi Masouleh et al. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Optimization of Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Production. Digital Discovery2024, Advance Article. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DD00159A
