4 PhD Positions, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia (2017)

The School of Chemical Engineering is an international leader in the chemical engineering field and has an excellent international reputation which has been built over four decades at the University. With 35 academic staff, including 17 professors, the School provides quality programs and leadership in chemical engineering education, research and development, and expert consulting to support the process industries. In addition to core technical areas, research is undertaken on a range of interdisciplinary problems, in collaboration with science, business, economics and other disciplines. Information about the Faculty and the School may be accessed on the Faculty's web site at http://www.uq.edu.au/eait.

The role
Carbon dioxide (CO2) becomes increasingly notorious as a cause of global warming. As the primary greenhouse emissions from human activities, carbon dioxide are majorly emitted from fossil fuels combustion for energy. The iron and steel industry is the key sector providing a fundamental material to society, but is also the largest energy consuming manufacturing sector. The iron making process is the most CO2 emissions intensive part for steel production. In 2010, about 2,500 million tons of CO2 in total (over 5% of the total CO2 emission) were emitted from steel production, and this value is projected to grow by 2050 to a level of 2,800 million tonnes. On average, around 2 tonnes of CO2 will be emitted to the atmosphere to produce one tonne of steel through blast furnace route, which is the most common steel making process and accounts for nearly 70% of steel produced worldwide. Therefore, mitigating CO2 emission levels especially from iron and steel industry is critical to alleviate greenhouse impacts on our environment and society sustainability. This project aims to develop technologies for our industrial partners to capture and electrochemically convert CO2 from steel making processes to product with high commercial value.

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