Fossil-free graphite
Graphite is widely used in process industries, E-mobility and digitalisation. Its consumption has increased rapidly due to increased production of lithium-ion batteries globally. The graphite demand in Swedish metallurgical industries will increase due to fossil-free steel production, in which the EAF (Electrical Arc-Furnace) process is increased.
Today, all used graphite comes from natural graphite mines or fossil-based artificial production. The main purpose of this project is to develop a production process, low in energy consumption and CO2 emissions, to produce fossil-free graphite that can be used for electrodes in EAF and anodes in battery applications.
The proposed process is based on catalytic graphitization of biomass-derived biochar. Suitable catalysts will be screened, and optimization of process parameters will be conducted. Finally, a process with details parameters will be proposed.
Read about preliminary results from December 2022 here.
Here you can find the complete list of publications from the project.
Weihong Yang
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
weihong@kth.se
Project information
Participants
KTH
Uppsala University
EnviGas Technology AB
Schedule
January 2022 - December 2024
Total project cost
5 943 607 SEK
The Swedish Energy Agency's project number
2021-00048
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