IDA is accepting Extended Abstracts for the Technical Sessions of the 2021 IDA-SWCC DTRI Specialty Conference on Ocean Brine Mining for Desalination, March 21-23, 2022, in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, at the Le Meridien Hotel.

This conference is organized by the International Desalination Association (IDA) and the Desalination Technologies Research Institute (DTRI) of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) under the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Agriculture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Focus on the Value of Brine form Desalination Plants

Brine from desalination plants contains valuable minerals and Desalination Brine mining has the potential to surpass earth mining as a source of rare-earth metals such as lithium, strontium, cesium, rubidium, barium and others. Desalination brine mining brings a new era of exploration of the vast water resources of the planet. This conference opens a venue for presenting and discussing the latest advanced technologies for extraction of minerals and rare metals from brine generated by desalination plants.

Purpose of this Conference

The main purpose of the 3-day Desalination Brine Mining Conference is to provide a forum for expert scientists, applied researchers, practitioners and innovators in the field of desalination brine mining to share their latest technologies and experience of mineral and metal extraction. Emphasis will be given to membrane based ocean brine concentration and advanced extraction methods and technologies which combine low energy use and competitive production of rare metals and minerals.

The focus of the presentations will be technologies and systems that are advanced to the point of proof-of-concept and beyond, that have potential to yield minerals and rare metals at cost lower than that of earth mining and conventional methods of production. Presentations sharing case studies for demonstration or full-scale implementation of brine concentration and mineral extraction technologies are very welcome.

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