Research group Electrolysis and High Temperature Materials
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- Sustainable electrochemical production of metals and alloys from both primary and secondary sources.
- New electrochemical processes with elimination of CO2 emissions and new CCS ready process solutions.
- Recycling concepts for critical raw materials and metals.
- Large scale electricity storage in new battery technologies based on metals and molten salts.
- Carbon, bio-carbon and refractories development with quality control test methods and advanced analysis.
Research areas
- Fluoride and chloride chemistry
- Molten salt electrolysis
- Aqueous solutions electrolysis
- Molten salt/metal batteries
- Carbon electrode technology
- Bio-carbon and bio-binders
- Refractories
- Gas analysis of process gas/emissions
Infrastructure
- Molten salt laboratories
- Aqueous solutions laboratories
- High temperature furnaces (to 1700 °C)
- Electrochemical methods and instrumentations
- Refractories and Carbon test methods and analysis methods
- Advanced material characterisation (XRD, SEM/OM, CT, LECO, Laser Flash)
- Software modelling
Employees in the research group for Electrolysis and High Temperature Materials