Alberto N. Conejo

Optimization model of mass and energy in the electric arc furnace using green direct reduced iron

The urgent need to decrease CO 2 emissions from the steel industry has focused attention on steel production in the electric arc furnace (EAF), which produces 20% of the CO 2 emissions of the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) route. This result is possible using high-qu...

Nucleation and Coalescence of Wustite-like Motifs in Oxygen-Deficient Magnetite: A Deep-Potential Molecular Dynamics Study

Abstract Oxygen loss in magnetite drives the cation redistribution and local structural reconstruction that control the rate of iron oxide reduction, but this coupling has resisted direct simulation: the reconstruction develops far beyond DFT-accessible scales, and classical pote...