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Organizers
Donald R. Sadoway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toru H. Okabe, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

Toshiyuki Nohira, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University

Program Coordinators
Kouji Yasuda, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
Katsuhiro Nose, IIS, the University of Tokyo


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The 8th Workshop on Reactive Metal Processing

March 8 (Fri.)- March 9 (Sat.), 2013, Cambridge, MIT

Workshop Organizer:
Prof. Donald R. Sadoway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Prof. Toru H. Okabe, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
Prof. Toshiyuki Nohira, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University

Program Coordinator:
Kouji Yasuda, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
Katsuhiro Nose, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

Sponsor:
A part of the workshop is financially supported by the Rare Metal Research Workshop (RC-40: directed by Prof. Okabe), one of the Special Research Group organized by the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science (FPIS).
A part of the workshop is financially supported by the funding program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) by JSPS.

Day 1, Morning, March 8 (Friday), 2013 Grier Room
 
8:30 - 9:00   Coffee & Breakfast Service
9:00 -  9:10   Opening Remarks
Prof. Donald R. Sadowa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Toru H. Okabe, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
       
Session Chair: Prof. Toshiyuki Nohira    
9:10 - 9:40   “Low Carbon Footprint Process for Metals Production”
Uday B. Pal
Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
9:40 - 10:10   “Electrochemical Behavior of Tin and Indium in Molten Chloride Electrolytes”
Geir Martin Haarberg1, Bo Qin1, Ana Maria Martinez2
1: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU, 2: SINTEF
10:10 - 10:40   “Systems Engineering for Scale-Up of the Infinium MagGen? Primary Magnesium Production System”
Adam C. Powell IV, Stephen J. Derezinski, III, R. Steve Tucker, Aaron Tajima Infinium, Inc.
10:40 - 11:00   Break
       
Session Chair: Prof. Gudrun Savarsdottir
11:00 - 11:30   “New Research Approaches”
Georges J. Kipouros
Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
11:30 - 12:00   “TaON Based Nanostructures: Controllable Synthesis and Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performance”
Shuqiang Jiao and Jungang Hou
University of Science and Technology Beijing
12:00 - 13:15   Lunch
   
Day 1, Afternoon, March 8 (Friday), 2013 Grier Room
 
Session Chair: Prof. Georges J. Kipouros   
13:15 - 13:45   “A Consideration of Oxygen Activity in Various Molten Salts Including Slag”
Takashi Nakamura
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University
13:45 - 14:15   “An Insight into Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Molten Oxides”
Antoine Allanore
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:15 - 14:40   “Calcium-based Liquid Metal Battery for Grid Scale Energy Storage: Ca-Mg||Bi, Sb, Pb”
Takanari Ouchi, Hojong Kim, Nicholas Sather, Xiaohui Ning, Salvador Barriga, Jocelyn M. Newhouse, Donald R. Sadoway
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:40 - 15:05   “Reduction of TiO2 or TiClx into Liquid Bi in Molten Salts”
Yuya Kado, Sho Maruyama, Akihiro Kishimoto, Tetsuya Uda
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
15:05 - 15:30   “Oxide Metallurgy for the Production of Silicon”
Kouji Yasuda1,2, Toshiyuki Nohira2, Rika Hagiwara2
1: Environment, Safety, and Health Organization, Kyoto University, 2: Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
15:05 - 15:55    Photo & Break
Session Chair. Dr. Katsuhiro Nose
15:55 - 16:45   3-min Short Presentation by Poster Presenters
16:45 - 17:45   Poster Session
       
18:30 -     Banquet @ Le Meridien Cambridge-MIT (Luscomb Ballrooms)
       
Day 2, Morning, March 9 (Saturday), 2013 Grier Room
   
8:30 -  9:00   Coffee & Breakfast Service
 9:00 - 9:10   Opening Remarks
Prof. Toshiyuki Nohira, Kyoto University
       
Session Chair. Prof. Kazuki Morita
 9:10 - 9:40   “Self Healing Liquid/Solid State Battery”
Paul Burke, Brice Chung, Xiaohui Ning, Satyajit Phadke, Huayi Yin,Donald R. Sadoway,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:40 - 10:10   “Materials Processing for Fuel Debris Treatment”
Nobuaki Sato,
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University
10:10 - 10:40   Break
       
Session Chair. Prof. Geir M. Haarberg
10:40 - 11:05   “Electrochemical Synthesis of AB5-type RE-Ni Based Alloys via FFC Cambridge Process”
Qian Xu, Xue Kang, Shuang Li, Ximei Yang, Qiushi Song,
School of Materials and Metallurgy, Northeastern University
11:05 - 11:30   “Application of Molten Oxide Electrolysis for Rare Earth Extraction”
Guillaume Lambotte, Tessa D. Green, Rachel DeLucas, Yen T. Yeh, Donald R. Sadoway, Antoine Allanore,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 - 11:55   “Mass Transport in Liquid Metal Batteries”
Douglas H. Kelley, Nicholas A. Davis, Salvador Barriga, Donald R. Sadoway
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:55 - 13:15   Lunch
       
Day 2, Afternoon, March 9 (Saturday), 2013 Grier Room
       
Session Chair. Prof. Tetsuya Uda
13:15 - 13:40   “Thermodynamics of Rhodium and Platinum in Molten Slags”
Chompunoot Wiraseranee, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Toru H. Okabe, Kazuki Morita,
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
13:40 - 14:05   “Electrochemical De-oxidation of Mixed Oxides to Fe–Ti Alloy in Molten Calcium Chloride Electrolyte
Mrutyunjay Panigrahi, Etsuro Shibata, Atsushi Iizuka, Takashi Nakamura, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University
14:05 - 14:30   “Study of Rate Limiting Process in Liquid Metal Battery Systems
Jocelyn M. Newhouse, Hojong Kim, Donald R. Sadoway,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
14:30 - 14:55   “Low-Temperature Electrolytes for Liquid Metal Batteries
Brian Spatocco, Kimberly Aziz, Douglas H. Kelley, Paul Burke,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:55 - 15:20   “Iron Removal from Titanium Ore to Prepare Titanium Dioxide through Selective Chlorination
Jungshin Kang, Toru H. Okabe
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
15:20 - 15:30   Information for the Next RMW
Prof. Tetsuya Uda, Kyoto University
15:30 - 15:40   Closing Remark
Prof. Donald R. Sadoway, Masschusetts Institiute of Technology

Prof. Toru H. Okabe, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
Prof. Toshiyuki Nohira, Kyoto University
16:00 -     Laboratory Tour (for applicant)

List of Poster Presentations

1. “Production of Magnesium and Oxygen by Solid Oxide Membrane Electrolysis with an Inert Current Collector”
Xiaofei Guan1, Uday B. Pal1,2, Srikanth Gopalan1,2
1: Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
2. “Development of New Recovery Process for Rare Metals from Cemented Carbide Scraps”
Kohei Matsutani, Yu-ki Taninouchi, Toru H. Okabe
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
3. “Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties of Tellurium in Molten Iron by Transpiration Method”
Shumpei Suzuki1, Takeshi Yoshikawa1, Takayuki Nishi2, Kazuki Morita1
1: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, 2: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
4. “Electrorefining of Titanium from Bi-Ti Alloys in a NaCl-KCl Molten Salt”
Akihiro Kishimoto, Yuya Kado, Shuhei Arisawa, Tetsuya Uda
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
5. “A Study on Continuous Process for Electrolytic Reduction of SiO2 Powder in Molten CaCl2
Tetsuya Toba1, Kouji Yasuda1,2, Toshiyuki Nohira1, Xiao Yang1, Rika Hagiwara1, Koki Ichitsubo3, Kenta Masuda3, Takayuki Homma4
1: Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, 2: Environment, Safety and Health Organization, Kyoto University, 3: Taiheiyo
Cement Corp. 4: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
6. “Dry Recycling Process of Rare Earth Elements from Alloy Magnets”
Keigo Nishimura, Toru H. Okabe
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
7. “Production of Silicon by Solid Oxide Membrane-Based Electrolysis Process”
Yihong Jiang1, JiaPeng Xu1, Xiaofei Guan1, Uday B. Pal1, 2, Soumendra N. Basu1, 2
1: Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
8. “Reductive Removal of Phosphorus in Silicon Using CaO-CaF2 Slag”
Hiroaki Kawamura, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Kazuki Morita
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
9. “Effect of Phosphorus Impurities on Current Efficiency in Aluminium Reduction Cells”
Rauan Meirbekova1, Guðrún Arnbjörg Sævarsdóttir1, Geir Martin Haarberg2, Petre Manolescu2, Andrei Manolescu2
1: Reykjavik University, School of Science and Engineering, 2: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU
10. “Fundamental Study on Anodic Dissolution Behavior of Platinum Group Metals in NaCl-KCl Fused Salt”
Katsuhiro Nose, Toru H. Okabe
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
11.   “Solar Grade Silicon Purification Using Liquid Phase Migration Technique”
Kunitoshi Matsunaga, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Kazuki Morita
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
12.   “New Production Process of Silicon Using Fine Powders of Silica and Calcium Hydride”
Yohsuke Mizutani1, Kouji Yasuda1,2, Toshiyuki Nohira1, Rika Hagiwara1, Takayuki Homma3
1: Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, 2: Environment, Safety and Health Organization, Kyoto University, 3: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
13.   “Review and Update of Hydrometallurgical Process for Nickel Laterite Ore”
Yoshitomo Ozaki
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
14.   “Zirconia Sensor Device for in-situ Monitoring of Metal Powder Oxidation States”
Jarrod D. Milshtein1,2, Soumendra N. Basu1,2, Srikanth Gopalan1,2, Uday B. Pal1,2
1: Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
15.   “A Technique for Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Rare Earth Permanent Magnets using B2O3 Flux”
Hidehiro Sekimoto, Takahiro Kubo, Katsunori Yamaguchi
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University
16.   “New Recycling Process of PGMs from Autoscraps”
Akinari Suzue, Yu-ki Taninouchi, Toru H. Okabe
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo