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2011-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
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| Editors: | Florian K |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 630 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9879917-2-0 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Electrochemical Analysis Of Direct Extraction Of Silicon From Silica In Molten Salts
George Chen1;1UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, Nottingham, United Kingdom;
Type of Paper: Invite
Id Paper: 253
Topic: 6
Abstract:
Public concerns over the foreseeable exhaustion of fossil fuels and CO2 emission related climate change have grown rapidly in the past decade. This period is in coincidence with the invention and research history of the FFC Cambridge Process which is in principle lower in energy consumption and CO2 emission than many existing industrial metallurgical processes. Thus, when developed commercially, the FFC Cambridge Process can contribute to mitigating the environmental strains on the energy and material industries. For example, in all known methods for harvesting solar energy, the highest conversion efficiency achieved over 40%, although the achievable efficiency using affordable materials and techniques is about 10% (1-3). This sounds not very high, but even at this