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The 2024 ARi Short Course

2024 Short Course Ad

The 2024 ARi Short Course on Adsorption, Ion Exchange and Industrial Chromatography will be held in Twin Falls, Idaho, on September 10 - 11, 2024. This year, the focus will be on direct lithium extraction (DLE) and the lithium industry.

To learn more about this exciting educational opportunity, click on the image to read our course brochure. We hope to see you there!

ARi Lithium Technology

ARi's scalable technology and equipment for direct lithium extraction (DLE) and lithium brine polishing was recently featured in volume 17 of the Innovation Platform magazine. To find out more, click on the link below and choose "Launch Publication". ARi's technology and equipment are featured on page 77.

Contact us to find out how we can help bring your lithium project to low-risk commercial-scale operation using technology and equipment solutions proven over more than 40 years at a large industrial scale.

Link to the Innovation Platform magazine

Pilot Equipment for Technology Development

DLE Pilot System

ARi has an extensive suite of pilot equipment that is used for process evaluation and technology development. This equipment can be flexibly configured to suit a very wide range of process configurations and operating conditions, and includes sanitary systems, explosion-proof systems and systems designed to work with highly-corrosive process streams.

Customers can also rent equipment for testing in-house at their own facility – with comprehensive support throughput the process from ARi’s specialist engineers. This is often the best solution when the feedstock for a separation cannot readily be transported to ARi’s pilot facility for testing, due to the volumes required or due to potential product deterioration. ARi also builds laboratory-scale, pilot-scale, demonstration-scale and commercial-scale equipment for customers.

Currently, as illustrated in the image above, a number of corrosion-resistant pilot-scale systems are being fabricated for use in direct lithium extraction from various brines.

Contact us if you would like to learn more about how our experts can help you develop and commercialize your separation process.

New Sanitary Explosion-Proof Pilot Equipment

Fabrication of the new ARi sanitary explosion-proof pilot system

To better serve the specific needs of particular markets, such as in precision fermentation or advanced bioprocessing, ARi is currently fabricating an eight-column sanitary explosion-proof pilot system that can be used to test adsorption or ion exchange processes in a single-column operation, or in multi-column continuous operation. The system can also be configured operate as simulated moving bed chromatography system. With its explosion-proof capabilities, the system will be able to meet the needs of customers developing separation technologies using flammable solvents, and its sanitary design allows it to be used to generate pilot quantities of final products that can be directly tested in markets involving human or animal consumption.

As well as being a leading provider of adsorption, ion exchange and industrial chromatography technology and equipment to a wide range of industries worldwide, ARi offers customers a customized technology development and commercialization service. We can work with you to develop innovative processes to solve your specific separation problems. This service can include the characterization and selection of resins or adsorbents at a laboratory scale, optimization and performance testing of the separation process at a pilot scale, and / or scale-up to full commercial production on an industrial scale. This work can be done at our extensive pilot facility in Twin Falls, Idaho, or at your own site using our leased equipment and with the guidance of our knowledgeable experts.

Contact us If you would like to learn more about our capabilities, and how we could help you to bring your project to commercialization quickly and at low risk.

ARi at Trade Shows & Conferences

Teams from ARi will be attending various trade shows and conferences during 2024. If you are also planning to attend any of these events, please find us and introduce yourself. Our schedule currently includes:

  • The Sugar Industry Technologists conference in Vancouver in April,
  • The European Society of Sugar Technologists conference in Vienna in May,
  • The Wisconsin Cheesemakers' Association Conference on April 16 - 18, 2024,
  • The SOCMA conference in Georgia in June,
  • The Battery Raw Materials conference in Las Vegas on June 24 - 27, 2024,
  • The IEX 2024 conference in Cambridge on July 10 - 12, 2024,
  • The Lithium Extraction and Processing Forum in California on July 22 - 23, 2024, and
  • The Supply Side event in Las Vegas in October.

Short Course

ARi offers a short course on Adsorption, Ion Exchange and Industrial Chromatography. The last course was held in Twin Falls, Idaho, on June 8th, 2023. To review the content of the 2023 course, download a copy of the course brochure at the link below.

The 2024 ARi short course will focus on the theory and applications of adsorption, ion exchange operations and industrial chromatography in direct lithium extraction (DLE and the lithium industry. It will be held in Twin Falls, Idaho, on September 10 - 11, 2024. More information and a course brochure will follow shortly.

2023 ARi Short Course Brochure

ARi on Television

ARi was featured on Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland®! Watch Kathy Ireland’s interview with Vadim Kochergin, President, and Erin Johnson, Chemical Engineer and Project Leader, to learn more about ARi’s innovative fractal technology.