# Title Funder Funding Start End Status
1 Trelavour Hard Rock Lithium Demonstration Plant Innovate UK
£1,984,771
Aug. 31, 2022 Feb. 29, 2024 Active
2 Trelavour Hard Rock Lithium Demonstration Plant Innovate UK
£9,923,855
Aug. 31, 2022 Feb. 29, 2024 Active
3 Co-production of Lithium and China Clay in Cornwall - CLiCCC ISCF
£3,580,480
April 30, 2021 April 30, 2022 Closed
4 Zero Carbon Lithium Extraction from Geothermal Fluid Innovate UK
£846,440
Nov. 1, 2020 March 31, 2021 Closed
5 Membrane distillation-crystallisation for the production of carbon neutral lithium in the UK Innovate UK
£1,718,830
Sept. 30, 2022 Sept. 30, 2023 Closed
6 Bioprocessing of lithium brines BBSRC
£1,311,345
Feb. 14, 2023 May 11, 2025 Active
7 Feasibility study to create the business case for the purchase and installation of a commercial scale geothermal Direct Lithium Extraction unit in Cornwall Innovate UK
£345,480
April 30, 2022 Sept. 30, 2022 Closed
8 Novel Extraction and Responsible Sourcing of Lithium from Unconventional Brine and Hard Rock Resources EPSRC
£0
Jan. 7, 2019 June 29, 2023 Active
9 Novel Extraction and Responsible Sourcing of Lithium from Unconventional Brine and Hard Rock Resources EPSRC, NERC
£0
Jan. 7, 2019 June 30, 2023 Closed
10 Lithium and Graphite Recovery from Lithium-Ion Batteries (LaGReLiB) Innovate UK
£119,542
Sept. 30, 2020 Dec. 31, 2020 Closed
11 R2LIB (Reclamation, Remanufacture of Li Ion Batteries) Innovate UK
£4,922,476
Sept. 30, 2018 June 29, 2021 Closed
12 Supply Chain Accelerator for Li-ion Electrode materials in UK (SCALE-Up) Innovate UK
£1,912,848
March 1, 2018 Aug. 30, 2020 Closed
13 Open Skies Cornwall Innovate UK
£1,608,271
March 31, 2022 March 31, 2024 Active
14 Open Skies Cornwall ISCF
£8,041,355
March 31, 2022 March 31, 2024 Active
15 An Integrated Smart Essential Oil Production System Innovate UK
£150,000
May 31, 2023 Feb. 29, 2024 Active
16 Pilot demonstration of a novel extraction process to recover critical metals from end-of-life Li-ion batteries for immediate entry into electric vehicle battery supply chain Innovate UK
£1,002,083
Aug. 31, 2022 Feb. 29, 2024 Active
17 Green Lithium - Rosyth Refinery Innovate UK
£630,907
March 31, 2021 March 30, 2022 Closed
18 EALIR - Development of new, highly-efficient techniques to increase the recovery of critical materials in lithium-ion battery recycling Innovate UK
£253,202
Sept. 30, 2022 March 31, 2024 Active
19 EALIR - Development of new, highly-efficient techniques to increase the recovery of critical materials in lithium-ion battery recycling Innovate UK
£1,266,010
Sept. 30, 2022 March 31, 2024 Active
20 Scaled Electricity Storage Using Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Innovate UK
£523,045
March 31, 2015 March 31, 2016 Closed
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