The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Photoelectrochemical water splitting: a road from stable metal oxides to protected thin film solar cells

C Ros, T Andreu, JR Morante - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has attracted great attention during past decades
thanks to the possibility to reduce the production costs of hydrogen or other solar fuels, by …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study and numerical simulation on porosity dependent direct reducibility of high-grade iron oxide pellets in hydrogen

B Sadeghi, P Cavaliere, M Bayat, NE Esfahani… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The transition to more environmentally friendly steel production methods has intensified
research into hydrogen-based direct reduction (HyDR) of iron oxide pellets. The aim of this …

Sustainable steel through hydrogen plasma reduction of iron ore: Process, kinetics, microstructure, chemistry

IR Souza Filho, Y Ma, M Kulse, D Ponge, B Gault… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Iron-and steelmaking is the largest single industrial CO 2 emitter, accounting for 6.5% of all
CO 2 emissions on the planet. This fact challenges the current technologies to achieve …

Unsaturated single atoms on monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides for ultrafast hydrogen evolution

Y Luo, S Zhang, H Pan, S **ao, Z Guo, L Tang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Large-scale implementation of electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen evolution
requires cheap and efficient catalysts to replace expensive platinum. However, catalysts that …

Removal of VOCs from gas streams via plasma and catalysis

WC Chung, DH Mei, X Tu, MB Chang - Catalysis Reviews, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has resulted in various environmental
issues. Therefore, development of effective VOC removal technology is essential for …

The role of heterogeneous catalysts in the plasma-catalytic ammonia synthesis

BS Patil, N Cherkasov, NV Srinath, J Lang, AO Ibhadon… - Catalysis Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Ammonia, being the second largest produced industrial chemical, is used as a raw material
for many chemicals. Besides, there is a growing interest in the applications of ammonia as …

Energy and exergy analyses of hydrogen direct reduction iron by the fluidized bed

L Wang, G Wang, S Li - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrometallurgy is a novel metallurgical methodology that employs hydrogen as a reducing
agent, thereby facilitating efficient, low energy consumption, and eco-friendly metal smelting …

An overview of currently applied ferrochrome production processes and their waste management practices

SP du Preez, TPM van Kaam, E Ringdalen… - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ferrochrome (FeCr) is the main source of virgin chromium (Cr) units used in modern-day
chromium (Cr) containing alloys. The vast majority of produced Cr is used during the …

Hydrogen plasma processing of iron ore

KC Sabat, AB Murphy - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2017 - Springer
Iron is currently produced by carbothermic reduction of oxide ores. This is a multiple-stage
process that requires large-scale equipment and high capital investment, and produces …