| The State-of-the-art Gas Carburizing Method of Solid Steel for Minimizing Both Hydrocarbon Use and CO2 Emission by Selective Removal of H2 from the Furnace Tateo Usui1; Tomoyuki Mizukoshi2; Yujiro Yokoyama3; Hideaki Hoshino3; Itsuo Ishigami4; Hirokazu Konishi5; 1OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Ibaraki, Japan; 2OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Izumi, Japan; 3IZUMI CENTER, OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Izumi, Japan; 4OSAKA PREFECRURE FEDERATION OF SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, Osaka, Japan; 5OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, Japan; PAPER: 109/Iron/Plenary (Oral) SCHEDULED: 15:55/Tue. 29 Nov. 2022/Arcadia 1 ABSTRACT: Gas carburizing of solid steel is carried out by using much amount of hydrocarbon in order to keep the furnace atmosphere as long as constant, because carbon from hydrocarbon is consumed for carburization of steel surface and hydrogen remains in the furnace. In the present study, selective removal methods of H<sub>2</sub> were surveyed and fundamental experiment was done by using Proton Conductor SrZr<sub>1-x</sub>Y<sub>x</sub>O<sub>3-a</sub> , which was prepared by spark plasma sintering method; hydrogen gas was separated from wet simulated coke oven gas atmosphere at high temperature successfully. At the same time, reported method to selectively remove H<sub>2</sub> was also applied to bench scale furnace for gas carburizing of solid steel by using gas filter module made of poli-imido fiber tube. The control of the furnace atmosphere was very important to keep it constant, which was also studied numerically as well as experimentally. Finally, selective removal of H<sub>2</sub> from the furnace was verified experimentally and the flow rate of so-called “carrier gas” (hydrocarbons) could be reduced more than 75 % under the condition of the same quality of steel surface by the carburization treatment. 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