2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 6: Rare Earths & Ionic Liquids

Editors:Kongoli F
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication Year:2014
Pages:432 pages
ISBN:978-1-987820-08-9
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    The Molten Salt Electrolytic Winning of Metal and Oxygen from Lunar Materials

    Carsten Schwandt1; Ian Crawford2; Derek Fray3;
    1UNIVERSITY OF NIZWA, Nizwa, Oman; 2DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, London, United Kingdom (Great Britain); 3DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND METALLURGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain);
    Type of Paper: Regular
    Id Paper: 232
    Topic: 11

    Abstract:

    This article summarizes the main characteristics of the FFC-Cambridge process for the molten salt electrolytic winning of metals from metal oxides, presents the key features of in-situ resource utilization and lunar geology, discusses the recent identification of anodes capable of evolving oxygen, and finally highlights the new LunarRox process for the combined molten salt electrolytic winning of metal and oxygen from oxidic lunar materials.

    Keywords:

    High-temperature electrochemistry, Molten salts, FFC-Cambridge process, Metal production, Oxygen production, In-situ resource utilization

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    Schwandt C, Crawford I, Fray D. The Molten Salt Electrolytic Winning of Metal and Oxygen from Lunar Materials. In: Kongoli F, editors. Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2014 Volume 6: Rare Earths & Ionic Liquids. Volume 6. Montreal(Canada): FLOGEN Star Outreach. 2014. p. 281-290.