At a glance
| Booth | Q6235 |
| Country | JP |
| Website | emulsion-flow.tech/en |
Company profile
Emulsion Flow Technologies Ltd. was founded on April 5, 2021 as a startup established to bring Emulsion Flow, a solvent-extraction technology born at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, into practical society-wide use. The technology originated in nuclear research and was originally developed for separating elements in spent nuclear fuel. The company develops Emulsion Flow as a separation and purification platform for resource circulation and environmental protection. Its stated resource-circulation goal includes recovering rare metals and returning them to high-tech industries through horizontal recycling. Its environmental work includes recovering PFAS from high-concentration industrial wastewater. The company also connects the technology with a broader objective of building circular-resource infrastructure and a sustainable industrial society. Emulsion Flow Technologies Ltd. identifies environmental protection, resource circularity, and supply-chain reconfiguration as major global trends shaping the need for new separation technologies. Within those trends, the company focuses on challenges including PFAS remediation, lithium-ion-battery recycling, rare-earth processing, and rare-metal recovery. Emulsion Flow is positioned as an approach for separating, recovering, and regenerating valuable resources where conventional separation and purification methods face limitations. The company applies the technology to both resource circulation through LIB recycling and environmental-pollutant removal including PFAS. Its business scope includes environmental solutions for pollutant recovery, resource-recycling solutions for recovering rare metals from lithium-ion batteries, and rare-earth and rare-metal separation technologies related to supply-chain reconfiguration. Emulsion Flow Technologies Ltd. also provides custom development services for extraction-process development, plant design, and commissioning. Since founding, the company has brought in expertise in process development and plant design while also building capabilities in management, business development, and global marketing. It is expanding overseas through partnerships with trading companies and the use of support programs. The company has capital of 100 million yen and develops its business around transferring nuclear-research-derived separation technology into commercial environmental and resource-recycling applications. Its operating purpose is summarized as using technology from nuclear science to support resource circulation, environmental protection, and a sustainable future.
Exhibits
Emulsion Flow is a solvent-extraction method developed by JAEA and is used to separate and purify substances by selectively extracting target components between immiscible liquid phases. The technology emerged from a phenomenon in which oil and water mix cleanly and then separate cleanly, a discovery that became the starting point for the Emulsion Flow method. Conventional solvent extraction typically requires separate mixing, settling, and liquid-phase separation steps. Emulsion Flow instead enables extraction through a one-step liquid-feeding approach and can perform continuous extraction through simple liquid-feeding and agitation operations. Compared with a conventional mixer-settler, Emulsion Flow is presented as a high-efficiency process that can reduce the size of solvent-extraction plants. The same process is used for refining high-purity rare metals at lower cost than the conventional mixer-settler approach described by the company. Emulsion Flow enables energy-efficient separation for PFAS removal, rare-metal recovery, and battery recycling. The technology combines a compact design and high productivity for environmental and circular-economy applications. Commercial-scale development includes Emulsion Flow equipment for PFAS removal and lithium-ion-battery recycling. The company has confirmed that extraction efficiency remains high regardless of scale and reports sufficient performance at the 1000L scale. That 1000L result supports the company’s scale-up work toward full-scale implementation of the equipment. Beyond rare-metal recycling, Emulsion Flow can be used in separation and extraction processes for metal smelting, chemical industries, and biotechnology. Specific application types include separation and refinement, recovery of valuable components, and organic synthesis. For lithium-ion batteries, the company uses Emulsion Flow as part of a resource-recycling approach aimed at recovering rare metals for further circulation. For PFAS, the technology is applied to environmental solutions involving pollutant removal or recovery from industrial wastewater. For rare earths and rare metals, the company connects separation technology with supply-chain reconfiguration and resource-security needs. The company’s technical development therefore spans laboratory-originated solvent extraction, commercial equipment scale-up, extraction-process development, plant design, and commissioning support. Across these applications, Emulsion Flow Technologies Ltd. presents Emulsion Flow as a compact, productive separation technology that links nuclear-research origins with practical resource-recovery and environmental processes.
Capabilities and products
- Emulsion Flow solvent-extraction technology
- PFAS removal and recovery
- lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling
- rare-metal recovery
- high-purity rare-metal refining
- 1000L Emulsion Flow equipment scale-up
- separation/refining and valuable-component recovery in metal smelting
- separation and extraction for organic synthesis
- extraction-process development, plant design, and commissioning support
- rare-earth and rare-metal separation technologies