Growth of carbon nanotubes from waste blast furnace gases at atmospheric pressure

Sagu, Jagdeep; Wijayantha-Kahagala-Gamage, Upul; Holland, Paul; Bohm, Mallika; Bohm, Siva; Rout, Tapan Kumar; Bandulasena, Hemaka

Growth of carbon nanotubes from waste blast furnace gases at atmospheric pressure

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posted on 2016-08-08, 12:58 authored by Jagdeep Sagu, Upul Wijayantha-Kahagala-Gamage, Paul Holland, Mallika Bohm, Siva Bohm, Tapan Kumar Rout, Hemaka BandulasenaHemaka Bandulasena

Carbon emissions from industrial sources are of major global concern, especially contributions from the steel manufacturing process which accounts for the majority of emissions. Typical blast furnace gases consist of CO2 (20-25%), CO (20-25%), H2 (3-5%) and N2 (40-50%) and trace amounts of other gases. It is demonstrated that gas mixtures with these compositions can be used at atmospheric pressure to grow carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on to steel substrates, which act as catalysts for CNT growth. Computational modelling was used to investigate the CNT growth conditions inside the CVD chamber. The results show that industrial waste pollutant gases can be used to manufacture materials with significant commercial value, in this case CNTs.

Funding

JS would like to thank Tata Steel for the partly funded PhD Studentship which enabled this work to be carried out. Loughborough University is also acknowledged for the remaining funding for the PhD studentship. KGUW acknowledges the support received from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research www.crt-journal.org C 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 7 J S. Sagu et al.: Growth of carbon nanotubes from waste blast furnace gases at atmospheric pressure Original Paper Council (Grant no. EP/H020543/1). The authors acknowledge use of the facilities and the assistance of Dr. Zhaoxia Zhou for TEM measurements in the Loughborough Materials Characterisation Centre. All authors would like to thank EffecTech Ltd for supplying the gas mixtures and conducting gas chromatography measurements

History

School

Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

Chemical Engineering

Published in

Crystal Research and Technology

Citation

SAGU, J.S. ...et al., 2016. Growth of carbon nanotubes from waste blast furnace gases at atmospheric pressure. Crystal Research and Technology, 51 (8), pp.466-474.

Publisher

Wiley

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2016

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