Investigations into innovative and sustainable processes for the carbothermic production of gaseous aluminum

Efhtymios Balomenos; Panagiotis Diamantopoulos; Dimitrios Gerogiorgis; Dimitrios Panias; Ioannis Paspaliaris; Christoph Kemper; Lars Peters; Bernd Friedrich; Irina Vishnevetsky; Michael Epstein; Martin Halmann; Andreas Haselbacher; Zoran Jovanovic; Aldo Steinfeld

doi:10.1002/9781118888438.ch130

Investigations into innovative and sustainable processes for the carbothermic production of gaseous aluminum

Efhtymios Balomenos, Panagiotis Diamantopoulos, Dimitrios Gerogiorgis, Dimitrios Panias, Ioannis Paspaliaris, Christoph Kemper, Lars Peters, Bernd Friedrich, Irina Vishnevetsky, Michael Epstein, Martin Halmann, Andreas Haselbacher, Zoran Jovanovic, Aldo Steinfeld

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Considerable efforts have been applied to produce aluminum by alternative ways. Two novel processes for the carbothermic reduction of alumina towards gaseous aluminum production in Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) and solar furnace have been
investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The EAF process was tested at ambient pressures and temperatures above 2500°C in a customized 25 KW hollow electrode EAF, while the vacuum process was preliminary tested at 0.03-2.6 mbar absolute CO partial pressure and temperatures of 1400-1850°C in an
induction furnace. Results of both processes confirmed that the full reaction and volatilization of alumina to produce metallic aluminum in the vapor condensers can be achieved only at proper matching of temperatures and pressures at reaction and condensation zones. The solar reactor concept was further explored in a concentrated solar radiation furnace on a 10 kW scale.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TMS Light Metals
Editors	John Grandfield
Publisher	Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Pages	771-776
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781118889084
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118888438.ch130
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2014
Event	Light Metals 2014 - TMS 2014 Annual Meeting and Exhibition - San Diego, CA, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Feb 2014 → 20 Feb 2014

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Name	LIGHT METALS
Publisher	TMS
ISSN (Print)	0147-0809

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Conference	Light Metals 2014 - TMS 2014 Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	San Diego, CA
Period	16/02/14 → 20/02/14

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Carbothermic reduction of alumina
Gaseous A1 production
Solar furnace
Vacuum carbothermic reduction

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Balomenos, E., Diamantopoulos, P., Gerogiorgis, D., Panias, D., Paspaliaris, I., Kemper, C., Peters, L., Friedrich, B., Vishnevetsky, I., Epstein, M., Halmann, M., Haselbacher, A., Jovanovic, Z., & Steinfeld, A. (2014). Investigations into innovative and sustainable processes for the carbothermic production of gaseous aluminum. In J. Grandfield (Ed.), TMS Light Metals (pp. 771-776). (LIGHT METALS). Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118888438.ch130

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