FRAY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

VOLUME 3: MOLTEN SALTS & IONIC LIQUIDS 2011

 

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Chairman/ Editor Foreword........................................................................................................lxvii

Professor Derek Fray - Biography.............................................................................................lxxix

Editor's Biography...................................................................................................................lxxxiii

Organizers.................................................................................................................................lxxxv

International Committees.......................................................................................................lxxxvii

Session Chairpersons...............................................................................................................lxxxix

Sponsors/Financial Supporters...................................................................................................xciii

Sponsors Logos..........................................................................................................................xcvii

Corporate Section :

SOMIKA, Société Minière du Katanga ...............................................................................ciii

RHI..........................................................................................................................................cv

Oschatz GmbH....................................................................................................................cvii

Berzelius Metall...................................................................................................................cix

Umicore, Precious Metals Refining......................................................................................cx

FLOGEN® Technologies Inc..............................................................................................cxi

 

 

PLENARY

 

Sustainability - The Challenge of 21st Century-Reflections on the Role of Science and Technology.........3

Florian Kongoli

 

Examples of Synergy Leading to Innovations in Materials Science.............................................15

Derek Fray

 

Doing More with Less: The Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century (Speech).....................25

Janez Potocnik

 

Investment into R&D, use of Urban Mines and International Cooperation:

Elements of a Win-Win Strategy (Speech)....................................................................................27

Reinhard Butikofer

 

The Quest for Sustainable and Responsible Mining (Speech).......................................................29

Stephan Dion

 

Sustainability is not Wishful Thinking; It Lies in Our and Your Hands! (Speech).......................33

Stephan Vavrik

 

Mining and Sustainable Development: Oxymoron or Rx for a Bright Future?

(Abstract Only)..............................................................................................................................39

Manuel E. Ramos, Krishna Parameswaran

 

Growing Material Requirements and Tightening Material Availabilities and a Legislative

Environment Change The Dynamics for Recycling (Abstract Only)............................................41

Mark Cafferey

 

KGHM - Our Way to Sustainability (Abstract Only)....................................................................43

Wojciech Kędzia

 

Lead Smelting and Refining at Weser-Metall GmbH (Abstract Only).........................................45

Ulrich Kerney

 

Effective Management for Productivity Improvement at a Metallurgical Complex:

The Peñoles Case (Abstract Only).................................................................................................47

Javier Hernandez-Gallegos

 

Integrated Battery Recycling at Berzelius Metall GmbH, Germany - A Closed Loop!

(Abstract Only)..............................................................................................................................49

Hans-Peter Behrendt

 

Recent Developments in Iron-Making Technologies in Japan......................................................51

Takashi Miwa, Kiichiro Kurihara

 

A Strategy of Metal Resources for Sustainable Development and Supporting Technologies

for it in Japan (Abstract Only).......................................................................................................63

Takashi Nakamura

 

Charcoal Blast Furnace for Ironmaking (Abstract Only)..............................................................65

Jose Carlos D'Abreu, Cyro Takano

 

Materials Characterization of Complex Systems by Applying the Anomalous X-Ray

Scattering (Axs).............................................................................................................................67

Yoshio Waseda

 

Regenerative Energy System Using High-Temperature Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell

Equipped with Liquid Metal Electrodes........................................................................................81

K. T. Jacob

 

The Pivotal Role of Materials Science and Engineering in the Recycling of Materials

(Abstract Only)..............................................................................................................................97

Martin Pech-Canul, Florian Kongoli

 

Overview of Mineral and Metal Industry in Chile: Case of Copper Production (Abstract

Only)..............................................................................................................................................99

Mario Sanchez

 

Mining, Metallurgy, and Society (Abstract Only).......................................................................101

Fathi Habashi

 

 

SPECIAL ARTICLE

 

Changes of the Past 50 Years.......................................................................................................103

Derek Fray


 

VOLUME 3: MOLTEN SALTS & IONIC LIQUIDS 2011

 

Dendrite Free Electrochemical Deposition of Aluminum from Al Scrap Using Ionic Liquids

(Keynote).....................................................................................................................................109

Ramana Reddy And D. Pradhan

 

Novel Analysis Methods for Reactions in Molten Salts..............................................................119

Graeme A. Snook, Katherine Mcgregor, Paul J. Fraser, Michael A. Leist, Andrew J.

Urban, Mark J. Styles, Daniel P. Riley, Matthew R. Rowles, Nicola V.Y. Scarlett,

Ian C.Madsen

 

Solubility of ZrO2 in Molten Salt System...................................................................................135

Yongxiang Xiao, V. Laging, A. Van Sandwijk And Y. Yang

 

Actinides Recovery from a Molten Chloride Salt (Abstract Only).............................................141

Annabelle Laplace, Hubert Boussier, Eric Mendes, Jean-François Vigier

 

Production of Lithium from LiOH Using Molten Salt Electrolysis for the

Storage of Hydrogen through LiH...............................................................................................143

Yuzuru Sato, Osamu Takeda, Mingming Li

 

Separation and Recovery of Uranium from Next Generation Research

Reactor Fuel Via Molten Salt Electrorefining.............................................................................151

Steven Herrmann, Kevin Norbash, Dan Wachs

 

CMPO Functionalized Task Specific Ionic Liquid for Actinide and

Lanthanide Extraction..................................................................................................................165

Ali Ouadi, Emilie Jobin, Olga Klimchuk, Clotilde Gaillard, Isabelle Billard

 

Solvation and Complexation of Ions in Ionic Liquids: Spectroscopic

and Theoretical Studies (Abstract Only).....................................................................................171

Clotilde Gaillard

 

Direct Production of Tungsten Carbide Via the FFC - Cambridge Process...............................173

Diem-Hang Tran-Nguyen, Derek J. Fray

 

Molten Salts Composites for Thermal Storage in Steam Commercial Plants.............................181

Mila Hadjieva, Metodi Bozukov, Tsecka Tsacheva

 

Thermodynamic Properties of Trivalent Lanthanide and Actinide Ions

in Alkali Chloride and Alkaline Earth Chloride Mixtures (Abstract Only).................................191

Toshiyuki Fujii, Akihiro Uehara, Kazuhito Fukasawa, Takeshi Uda,

Takayuki Nagai, Nobuaki Sato, Hajimu Yamana

 

New Materials Created by using Molten Salt Media and by Controlling

Interfacial Phenomena (Abstract Only).......................................................................................193

George Kaptay

 

Direct Electrochemical Conversion of Metal Oxides to Metal by Molten

Salt Electrolysis: An Overview (Keynote)..................................................................................195

K.S. Mohandas

 

Influence of the Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Powder Compacted Metal Oxide

Cathodes on the Direct Electro-Deoxidation in Molten Calcium Chloride Medium..................219

K.S. Mohandas and Derek J. Fray

 

Studies on the Electrochemical Deoxidation of Uranium Dioxide in Molten Calcium

Chloride........................................................................................................................................239

K.S. Mohandas, N. Sanil, L. Shakila, D. Sri Maha Vishnu, K. Nagarajan

 

Galvanostatic Studies on the Electro-Deoxidation of Solid Titanium Dioxide in Molten

Calcium Chloride.........................................................................................................................253

K.S. Mohandas, L. Shakila, N. Sanil, D. Sri Maha Vishnu,K. Nagarajan

 

Synthesis and Application of Functionalized Ionic Liquids for Carbon Dioxide

Absorption....................................................................................................................................269

Carlos Carlesi, Danilo Carvajal, Christian Bidart, Rómel Jiménez,

Mauricio Flores, álex Berg

 

On the Preparation of TiAl Alloy by Direct Reduction of the Oxide Mixtures in Calcium

Chloride Melt...............................................................................................................................287

Prabhat K.Tripathy, Derek Fray

 

Physical Characterisation of CNTs Produced by Chronoamperometric Method in

MoltenLiCl(Keynote)...................................................................................................................................297

Aleksandar Dimitrov, Perica Paunovic, Ana Tomova And Anita Grozdanov

 

Acidity in Ionic Liquids...............................................................................................................307

Lynn M. Mihichuk, Gordon W. Driver, Keith E. Johnson

 

The Preparation of Nanoscale Carbon from Graphite Via Molten Salt

Electrolysis (Keynote).................................................................................................................317

Carsten Schwandt , Aleksandar T. Dimitrov , Ali R. Kamali, Derek J. Fray

 

Electrochemical Analysis of Direct Extraction of Silicon from Silica in

Molten Salts (Keynote) (Abstract Only)......................................................................................325

George Chen

 

Flue Gas Cleaning by Ionic Liquid Selective Gas Absorption (Abstract Only)..........................327

Rasmus Fehrmann

Production of Intermetallic Compound Powders through Sodium and

Hydrogen Reduction of Chloride(Keynote).................................................................................................329

Chao Du1, Na Wang, Jun Zhu, Shuqiang Jiao, Hongmin Zhu

 

Quinone-Based Redox Active Ionic Liquids...............................................................................337

Andrew P. Doherty, S. Pentlavalli, K. D. Murnaghan, Laura Diaconu

 

Electrochemistry of Ionic Liquids Containing Quinone Functionality using Cavity

Microrlectrode Arrays .................................................................................................................349

Elena Laura Diaconu, Andrew P. Doherty

 

Synthesis of Uranium Trichloride for the Pyrometallurgical Processing

of Used Nuclear Fuel...................................................................................................................359

Brian Westphal, J.C. Price, Robert Mariani

 

Nonplanar Tie-Lines Method to Determine the Quaternary Eutectic

Coordinates (Abstract Only)........................................................................................................367

Vasily Lutsyk

 

Reasons for the Errors in the Graphics of Salt System (Abstract Only)......................................369

Vasily Lutsyk

 

Crystallization of CaO.SiO2 in a CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 Melt: Computer

Simulations and in-situ Experiments...........................................................................................371

Jeroen Heulens, Bart Blanpain, Nele Moelans

 

Interactions of Ionic Liquids with Solutes, Particles and Surfaces: Insights

from Molecular Simulation and Experimental Thermodynamics (Abstract Only).....................379

Agilio Padua, Margarida Costa Gomes

 

Comparison of High Temperature Methods for the Investigation of Melting and

Crystallisation Behaviour of Mould Powders..............................................................................381

Nathalie Kölbl, Irmtraud Marschall, Harald Harmuth,

Bernd Buchberger, Jürgen Reiter

 

Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties of Molten Salts/Slags:

From Experiment to Modelling (Keynote) (Abstract Only).........................................................................395

Patrick Masset

 

Thermodynamic Characterization of Molten Salts by Vapour Pressure (Keynote)....................397

Harald A. Øye

 

Molecular and Ionic Species in Saturated Vapour Over Molten Ytterbium Bromides...............413

Mikhail Butman, Dmitri Sergeev, Vladimir Motalov, Lev Kudin,

Leszek Rycerz, Marcelle Gaune-Escard

 

The Application of Mixed Molten Salts NaCl-CaCl2, KCl-NaCl and

KCl-NaCl-CaCl2 in the FFC Cambridge Process.......................................................................427

Cai Zzhuofei, Guo Zhancheng, Tang Huiqing, Zhang Zhimei

 

Electrochemistry of Rare-Earth Metals and Synthesis their Borides

in Halide Melts (Abstract Only)..................................................................................................439

Sergey Kuznetsov, Marcelle Gaune-Escard

 

Galvanic Coatings of Molybdenum and Tungsten Carbides from Oxide Melts:

Electrodeposition and Initial Stages ff Nucleation......................................................................441

Victor Malyshev, Dmytro Shakhnin, Angelina Gab, Marcelle Gaune-Escard

 

The Effect of Electrolysis Parameters on the Coating Composition and Properties during

Electrodeposition Of Tungsten Carbides And Zirconium Diborides .........................................459

Victor Malyshev, Dmytro Shakhnin, Angelina Gab, Marcelle Gaune-Escard

 

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of DyBr3-KBr Binary System.................................467

Ida Chojnacka, Leszek Rycerz, Marcel le Gaune-Escard

 

Compound Formation in Lanthanide-Alkali Metal Halide Systems (Keynote)..........................475

Marcelle Gaune-Escard, Leszek Rycerz , Ewa Ingier-Stocka, Slobodan Gadzuric

 

Electrochemical and Diffusion Study of Multi-Component Lanthanides to

LiCl-KCl Eutectic........................................................................................................................489

B. Sarma, K.S. Raja, S.K. Mohanty, M. Misra

 

Electrolytes for Low Temperature Aluminum Electrolysis....................................................503

Alexander Dedyukhin, Alexander Redkin, Pavel Tinghaev, Yury Zaykov

 

Electroforming from Molten Salts: Industrial Applications (Poster) (Abstract Only)..............................509

Anatoliy Shchetkovskiy, Timothy Mckechnie, Alexander Smirnov

 

High Temperature Electrochemical Synthesis of Functional Materials

in Molten Salts (Poster) (Abstract Only)...................................................................................................511

Sergey Kuznetsov

 

Electrochemical Synthesis of Double Carbides of Tungsten and Molybdenum

Coatings from Tungstenate-Molybdate-Carbonate Melts on Metal and Nonmetallic

(Diamond) Surfaces(Poster) ....................................................................................................................513

Marina Adamokova, Hasbi Kushkhov, Fatima Kuchmezova, Ruzana Mamhegova

 

The Investigation of Stainless Steel Corrosion in Chloride Melts (Poster) (Abstract Only)....................517

Ilya Polovov, Alexader V. Abramov, Oleg I. Rebrin , Vladimir Volkovich,

Trevor Griffiths

 

The Methodology of Developing Rare Metals Electrorefining Technology

(Poster) (Abstract Only)............................................................................................................................519

Oleg I. Rebrin, Ilya Polovov , Vladimir Volkovich, Trevor Griffiths

 

Reactions between Ti3SixAl(1-X)C2 (X = 0 - 1) Solid Solutions and a Molten

Cryolite-AlF3-CaF2-Al2O3 Electrolyte(Poster) (Abstract Only)............................................................521

Xiao Yan, Ty Tran, Marshall Lanyon, Shou Sun

 

Application of Absorption Spectroscopy for Studying Behaviour of

Radioactive Elements in Molten Salts(Poster) (Abstract Only)...............................................................523

Vladimir Volkovich, Trevor Griffiths

 

Reducing the Volume of Radioactive Waste: Catalyst Enhanced

Molten Salt Oxidation is the Answer(Poster) (Abstract Only) ................................................................525

Trevor Griffiths, Vladimir Volkovich

 

Physical and Chemical Properties of Molten Salts Composed of Mixed

Nitrate/Nitrite Anions and Group I and II Cations (Poster) (Abstract Only)............................................527

Joseph Cordaro, Alan Kruizenga, Nathan Siegel, Robert Bradshaw, Brian Iverson

 

Factors Controlling the Synthesis and Stabilisation of Metallic Nanoparticles

Generated in-situ in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids (Poster) (Abstract Only)...............................................529

Catherine Santini, Paul Campbell, Gorka Salas

 

Photo-Influence for the Salts of Green-Fluorescence-Protein (GFP) Analogues

(Poster) (Abstract Only)............................................................................................................................531

Kuangsen Sung

 

Dissolution Rate of Steel Pack Aluminized in Mel Salt Na2SO4 at 884 Centigrades

Determinated by Electrochemical Technique(Poster)..............................................................................533

Baldemar M., A. Oropeza

 

Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanoparticles Hexaboride Neodymium and

Praseodymium from Chloride-Fluoride Melts(Poster)....................................................................539

Hasbi Kushkhov, Zalina Zhanikaeva, Stanislav Chuksin

 

The Electrochemical Corrosion of Nickel in Sodium Chloride-Sulfuric Acid Solutions

at Different Concentration Ratios using an Electrochemical Method(Poster)........................................547

Baldemar M., A. Oropeza

 

Compute of the Diffusion Coefficient to the Alloy Fe-Ni, using the Randles-Sevcik

Correlation, in Basic NaOH Solution Environment(Poster)............................................................551

Baldemar M., A. Oropeza, Martínez Claudia

 

Passivation Zone of Ni and NiFe Alloy before Breaking of Protection Film Acid

Environment H2SO4 Solutions(Poster)..............................................................................555

Baldemar M., A. Oropeza, Martínez Claudia

 

Ionic Liquids and Reactive Azeotropes: The Continuity of the Aprotic and Protic

Classes and their Relation to Molten Salts(Poster)....................................................................559

José Nuno Canongia Lopes, Luís Paulo N. Rebelo