| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Process Metallurgy and Environmental Engineering: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Takashi Nakamura
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| Presentation Title |
Metallurgy in a Low-carbon World: A Review of New Technology Developments |
| Author(s) |
Phillip J. Mackey |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Phillip J. Mackey |
| Abstract Scope |
Metals are central to the global energy transition towards a low-carbon world, with the world of the future needing more mining and metallurgy not less. All metals are important, however key metals include iron (and steel), aluminium, copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc and lithium. This paper puts into perspective the importance of metals required for the global energy transition and discusses new mining-metallurgical technologies now under early development to meet the needs of a low-carbon world. This includes the potential use of hydrogen principally as a reductant and also new high-temperature electrolytic techniques for metal production presently under study for important metals such as iron and copper. The projected timelines for the introduction of new technology are also discussed. Professor Nakamura’s work over a fifty-year period covered most or all of the metals under review here - his work will surely guide the metallurgy of the future and this paper is a tribute to his important work. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Copper / Nickel / Cobalt, Iron and Steel, Other |