Fluidity Development during Coking (Tata Steel)

The Centre wishes to recruit a chemistry graduate with a first or high 2.1 (above 65% grade mark average class honours degrees for the projects summarised below. The funding available restricts the projects to Home and EU students only. Each project has an industrial partner.

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy: [Email Address Removed].

Metallurgical coke is a porous carbonaceous material used in blast furnaces to reduce metal ores and is produced in coke ovens by carbonisation of coking coals at temperatures in excess of 1000°C. Good coking coals develop thermoplastic or fluid properties upon heating (400-500°C) that control the most important properties of coke, i.e. mechanical strength and reactivity. In order to characterise the fluid material of coking coals. Nottingham has developed high-temperature rheometry and 11-I-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to follow fluidity development in-situ. A thorough understanding of individual coals has bene obtained and the aim know is to develop the techniques for blends actually used for coke making. The research is most suited for a chemist with interests in thermal conversion and analytical techniques.