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Available for Licensing - Electrochemical Rare Earth Recovery from Coal Fly Ash: Turn Waste Stockpiles into Critical Materials Revenue
Battelle Energy Alliance�DOE CNTR · ID 83401
Battelle Energy Alliance�DOE CNTR in the United States has published a notice (Special Notice) about “Available for Licensing - Electrochemical Rare Earth Recovery from Coal Fly Ash: Turn Waste Stockpiles into Critical Materials Revenue”. It is not a call for bids: no tender is open to bid on yet, or the buyer has already chosen a supplier.
The tender in brief
Idaho National Laboratory seeks industrial partners to license and commercialize a patent-pending electrochemical process that extracts rare earth elements from coal fly ash leachate using electricity instead of chemical reagents. The technology is at laboratory-scale validation, with pilot-scale demonstration as the next step. It is applicable to coal power plants, rare earth recovery companies, environmental remediation, and the critical materials supply chain.
Key facts
- Procedure
- Special Notice
- Published
- 24 Aug 2026
- Reference
- BA-1747
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