There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

Phd by thesis

Analysis of XPS spectra of Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions in oxide materials

An assessment of high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM). An invited review

Rapid growth in the market for electric vehicles is imperative, to meet global targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to improve air quality in urban centres and to meet the needs of consumers, with whom electric vehicles are increasingly popular. However, growing numbers of electric vehicles present a serious waste-management challenge for recyclers at end-of-life. Nevertheless, spent batteries may also present an opportunity as manufacturers require access to strategic elements and critical materials for key components in electric-vehicle manufacture: recycled lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles could provide a valuable secondary source of materials. Here we outline and evaluate the current range of approaches to electric-vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling and re-use, and highlight areas for future progress. Processes for dismantling and recycling lithium-ion battery packs from scrap electric vehicles are outlined.

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Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles

Recycling lithium ion batteries

Slag viscosity is a major process variable for most pyrometallurgical smelting and refining process operations. While extensive measurements have been made of slag viscosities, it is not practicable to provide data on all the possible combinations of compositions and process conditions encountered in metallurgical practice. This article reviews the mathematical models that have been developed to predict slag viscosities and provides some advice on the factors to be considered in their selection and use.

Predicting slag viscosities in metallurgical systems

Liquidus-phase equilibrium data of the present authors for the PbO-ZnO-SiO2 system, combined with phase equilibrium and thermodynamic data from the literature, were optimized to obtain a self-consistent set of parameters of thermodynamic models for all phases. The modified quasichemical model was used for the liquid slag phase. From these model parameters, the optimized ternary-phase diagram was back-calculated.

Thermodynamic optimization of the systems PbO-SiO2, PbO-ZnO, ZnO-SiO2 and PbO-ZnO-SiO2

Characterisation of protective surface films formed on molten magnesium protected by air/SF6 atmospheres

The microstructures resulting from the reduction of hematite to magnetite have been examined for a wide range of temperatures and gas conditions. A transition in product morphology from plate or lath magnetite to porous magnetite was found to occur at a constant free energy difference between the reducing gas mixture and the hematite over a range of reaction temperatures. Direct observations of lath nucleation and growth are reported and show the self-accelerating effect of the Fe2O3 → Fe3O4 transformation. The limits of porous growth are discussed in terms of established theories of discontinuous precipitation and a mechanism for the formation of lath magnetite is proposed.

Peter C. Hayes

Papers

Recycling lithium ion batteries

Predicting slag viscosities in metallurgical systems

Thermodynamic optimization of the systems PbO-SiO2, PbO-ZnO, ZnO-SiO2 and PbO-ZnO-SiO2

Characterisation of protective surface films formed on molten magnesium protected by air/SF6 atmospheres

Microstructural changes on the reduction of hematite to maanetite