Aqua Metals Announces Completion of 3Rd Generation Aqualyzer
August 03, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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Aqua Metals, Inc. announced it has completed its V1.5 Aqualyzer program just six months after completing V1.25. This latest Aqualyzer configuration has now achieved lead production that is over 300% greater than the V1.0 Aqualyzer deployed at the AquaRefinery during commercial production in 2018 and 2019. These results are expected to positively impact capital and operating expenses for the Company’s current and future equipment supply and technology licensing customers. The increase in throughput results in a reduction of more than 60% in the number of Aqualyzers needed for equivalent lead production delivered by the V1.0 model, reducing capital and labor and footprint requirements. This latest iteration has also increased electrical efficiency to 97%, which further improves operating costs. The current design has a single button start and stop functionality with no manual interaction required during operation and automated maintenance capability. The 60% overall reduction in operating expenses and 50% reduction in capital expenditures from V1.0 to V1.5 greatly exceeds the targets set in early 2020.
Aqua Metals, Inc. is engaged in the business of recycling metals. The Company is reinventing metals recycling with its patented AquaRefining technology. It provides sustainable recycling solution for materials strategic to energy storage and electric vehicle manufacturing supply chains. The Companyâs AquaRefining technology is a low-emissions, closed-loop recycling technology that replaces polluting furnaces and hazardous chemicals with electricity-powered electroplating to recover valuable metals and materials from spent batteries with higher purity, lower emissions, and minimal waste. AquaRefining is designed to deliver raw materials back into the manufacturing supply chain and replaces the need for polluting furnaces and hazardous chemicals with electricity-powered electroplating to recover valuable metals and materials from spent batteries with higher purity, lower emissions, and minimal waste. AquaRefining process produces purity metals and alloys.