Reduction of iron oxide by carbon and gas in a novel low carbon, low energy alternative ironmaking process

钢铁行业在实现和保持竞争力方面面临着重大挑战，例如严格的环境法规、新能源、全球产能过剩以及来自其他材料的竞争。为了创造一个未来可持续发展的行业，金属提取需要能源贫乏，碳足迹低，并且在原材料/能源方面具有灵活性。该项目旨在推进氧化铁（FeO）与碳和气体在新型低能耗低碳替代炼铁工艺中的反应机制，并实现大幅减少碳足迹的潜力。这将通过使用专门设计的现代实验技术来研究高温下气体-炉渣-金属系统中的反应来实现，对所研究的系统进行热力学和动力学模拟，并在沃里克大学WMG先进钢铁研究中心的先进表征设施的帮助下表征样品和产品气体。该项目为参与下一代可持续钢铁制造的前沿研究提供了绝佳的机会。这是一个EPSRC/塔塔钢铁iCASE学生奖学金，该项目与EPSRC的“材料工程-金属与合金”和“制造技术”研究领域保持一致。

The steel industry is facing significant challenges in achieving and sustaining competitiveness, such as strict environment regulations, new energy sources, global overcapacity, and competition from other materials. To create an industry that will be sustainable for the future, extraction of metals needs to be lean in energy, low in C footprint and flexible with regards to raw material/energy sources. This project aims to advance the reaction mechanisms of iron oxide (FeO) with carbon and gas in a novel low energy, low carbon alternative iron making process, and enable the realisation of the potential to substantially reduce its carbon footprint. This will be achieved by using specifically designed modern experimental techniques to study the reactions in the gas-slag-metal systems at high temperatures, carrying out thermodynamic & kinetic simulations for the systems studied, and characterising the samples and product gases generated with the aid of advanced characterisation facilities in the Advanced Steel Research Centre at WMG of the University of Warwick. The project provides an outstanding opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge research of the next generation sustainable steel manufacturing. This is an EPSRC/Tata Steel iCASE studentship, and the project align well with the EPSRC research areas of "Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys" and "Manufacturing Technologies".