Patent Update
(20 November 2022, Manchester UK) - Manchester-based Watercycle Technologies Ltd (‘Watercycle’ or ‘the Company’), a pioneering critical minerals and water filtration specialist, is pleased to announce that it has successfully submitted six patent applications and been granted one surrounding the Company’s deep tech mineral extraction and water treatment systems.
Watercycle has an active patent protection strategy. This ensures that its IP and core technology based on the design of membrane based mineral extraction and crystallisation systems and components within it are protected, as it moves to commercialisation. The markets currently being targeted are mineral extraction from brines and other concentrated mediums, battery recycling and desalination. The latest applications are focussed on Direct Lithium Extraction and Crystallization (DLEC), as well as its shell and tube module, desalination hybrid process, Black Mass treatment process, mineral extraction membrane operation and lithium salt precipitation.
Watercycle co-founder and CEO Dr Seb Leaper said, “Our core technology spans selective mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallisation, and we are currently targeting the three key sectors of lithium mining, battery recycling and desalination. However, our IP is also highly applicable to other industries such as agriculture, textiles, power generation and food and beverage, translating into the ability to create advanced systems that can be applied to most concentred fluids where the by-product is clean water. Our IP is fundamental to our commercial success, and we are taking every step possible to ensure it is protected as we rapidly advance to the commercial testing of multiple products and applications.”
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About Watercycle Technologies - www.watercycletechnologies.com
Watercycle, spun out from the University of Manchester and backed by business accelerator Aer Ventures, is an innovative, sustainability-driven deep tech company focused on developing high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its advanced innovative membrane distillation-crystallisation (‘MDC’) technology is capable of treating highly concentrated water and is initially being utilised in lithium production from sub surface water and brines, as well as lithium-ion spent battery recycling, particularly relevant with regards to the current global transition towards a Circular Economy. The Company is operating from the world class facilities at the Masdar Building at the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre in Manchester, enabling the team to conduct critical R&D in state-of-the-art laboratories. Watercycle has a strong ethics-based business model that delivers profitable commercial solutions that are also focused on sustainability, environmental protection, and remediation.