Lin Yuan is a senior process engineer with a Master’s Degree. She has worked in the metals’ industry for over 13 years within Hatch. Lin’s work has focused largely on process development for lithium chemical plants, where she has developed flowsheets and plant designs for the production of lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide monohydrate from a range of feedstocks. These chemicals are a key feedstock for the manufacture of cathode active materials and battery cells.

Lin has been a key member in Hatch teams on over 10 lithium projects at different phases of maturity. Currently, she is working on the Covalent Lithium plant for Western Australia and for a POSCO plant in Korea. Lin has been involved in design, construction and commissioning one of the most modern lithium plants in the world, a Hatch plant designed and constructed in Jiangsu, China for Galaxy Resources, an Australian company. Lin is recognised as a key team member of the Hatch Global Centre of Excellence based in Brisbane.