2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging future. Researchers at FAU and ...
Materials Science
May 23, 2022
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Worldwide, we produce more than two gigatons of steel a year, the vast majority of which is produced in blast furnaces. In order to make the blast furnace process more sustainable—less energy consumption, less maintenance, ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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In Norway, metal production accounts for around 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 4, 2021
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A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority indicates that a workshop for smelting copper ore once operated in the Neveh Noy neighborhood of Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev Desert. The study, ...
Archaeology
Oct 5, 2020
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How long does it take to cool a sample environment furnaces from 1000 degrees C to 80 degrees C? Answer: 4.5 hours. This wastes a lot of precious neutron beam time so what has SINE2020 been doing about it?
General Physics
Sep 20, 2019
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It is generally known that pollution has damaged the ozone layer around the Earth. The ozone layer is important for protecting life from harmful UV rays from the sun. However, the fact that pollution leads to too much ozone ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2019
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Kristijan Plesnik, energy manager at the steel production SIJ Metal Ravne in Slovenia, talks to ESCI about economic threats to steel production and how these may affect EU climate targets. Kristijan is also involved in the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 6, 2018
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Professor Hiromi Nakano of the Toyohashi University of Technology has collaborated with a company to develop a small, lightweight air-pressure control atmosphere furnace that can rapidly and uniformly synthesize periodical ...
Materials Science
Jun 28, 2018
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Sorting scrap car parts into just eight classes could increase recycling rates of alloy elements to over 97% in Japan, according to a study by Tohoku University researchers and their colleagues. Their analysis found that ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2018
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A new solution from Siemens takes advantage of hot flue gases from arc furnaces to generate steam. This steam can then be used for other steel mill processes or for generating electricity. In the past, flue gases were usually ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 13, 2014
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