What is it about?

Electrolytic extraction of metals from their oxide precursors in molten salt with low energy consumption and CO2 emission.

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Why is it important?

A new disengaging strategy is demonstrated that prevent oxide ion discharge at a graphite anode by using molten MgCl2 and its mixture with KCl and NaCl which has very low solubility for the oxide ion.

Perspectives

This work is a significant modification to the known FFC Cambridge Process.

Professor George Zheng Chen
University of Nottingham

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This page is a summary of: Environmental and energy gains from using molten magnesium–sodium–potassium chlorides for electro-metallisation of refractory metal oxides, Progress in Natural Science Materials International, December 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2015.11.002.
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