Carbon footprint and water inventory of the production of lithium in the Atacama Salt Flat, Chile

The objective of this work is to estimate the carbon footprint and water footprint inventory using primary information of the lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide production of SQM and Albemarle in the Atacama Salt Flat, which represented 30 % of global lithium production in 2020. A contribution...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Lagos, Luis Cifuentes, David Peters, Laura Castro, José Miguel Valdés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-08-01
Series:Environmental Challenges
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010024001288