L’objectif de cette thèse sous contrat cifre entre la société S3d et l’Ecole des Mines de Nantes a été de développer une solution innovante et rentable de production de bio-GNV (Gaz Naturel pour Véhicules) à l’échelle d’une exploitation agricole. Les solutions testées pour capter le CO2 et l’H2S se sont respectivement basées sur les réactions de carbonatation accélérée et la sulfuration du fer sur matériaux alcalins. Pour cela, un co-produits industriels à faible valeur ajoutée a été identifié : les laitiers sidérurgiques issus de four de conversion à oxygène (laitiers BOF pour Basic Oxygen Furnace). Des essais ont été menés à l’échelle du laboratoire sur le CO2 etl’H2S en réacteurs statiques puis en colonne dynamique. L’étude de la carbonatation accélérée du CO2 sur les laitiers BOF et la chaux a permis d’estimer les capacités de capture du CO2 à 49 gCO2/kgBOF pour les BOF contre 265,4 gCO2/kg chaux pour la chaux. La sulfuration des laitiers par H2S a conduit à une capacité de capture de 7,0 ± 1,0 gH2S/kgBOF. Suite à ces résultats, la faisabilité technique a été évaluée sur un biogaz réel produit sur une exploitation agricole vendéenne. Des tests sur site dans une colonne garnie de 200 g de laitiers en lit fixe pendant 46 jours ont permis de valider la faisabilité de la désulfurisation parles laitiers BOF en conditions réelles. Cependant, les réflexions menées sur la carbonatation du CO2 ont conduit à l’introduction d’une solution alternative à savoir la filtration membranaire. Enfin, le bilan économique sur la filière complète a montré que la rentabilité de cette unité était contrainte par un investissement de 75 000 € subventionné à 30% et la consommation d’au moins 6 pleins/semaine. / Bio-NGV (bio- Natural Gas for Vehicles) is a bio-fuel based on the biogas in which components such as CO2and H2S are removed. But the economical feasibility of available and commercial technologies to perform these removals is limited to 80 Nm3/h of treated biogas. Regarding farm scale biogas plant, fuel needs of 1 fill-upper day would represent the treatment of only 1 Nm3/hof raw biogas. The aim of our work was to develop a solution economically adapted to farm scale to produce bio-NGV from biogas. An alternative and low cost material, BOF slag (Basic Oxygen Furnace slag), was then identified to perform CO2 removal by accelerated carbonation and H2S removal by iron sulfidation. The accelerated carbonation feasibility was evaluated in batch and dynamic reactors under laboratory conditions. But, removal capacities obtained were insufficient to be used under real conditions. Lime was then tested and CO2 removal capacities observed were higher than BOFslag ones but still insufficient. Iron sulfidation by H2Swas also tested under laboratory conditions. Batch reactor and dynamic column investigations led to an interesting H2S removal capacity of 7,0 ± 1,0 gH2S/kgBOF. Based on this result, performances were also validated under real conditions on the biogas produced on site field. According to the whole experimental data, the complete process of bio-NGV production was designed including the H2S removal performed by BOF slag, CO2 removal achieved in two membranes and the 200 bars compression. Finally, the overall economical balance has showed that a total investment of 75 000 € with a subsidy rates of 30% and a weekly fuel consumption between 6 and 28 fill-up/week will lead to a profitable project.

Industrial and power generation processes employ units like boilers and gasifiers to burn sulfur containing fuels to produce steam and syn gas (H2 and CO), which can generate electricity using turbines and fuel cells. These units often operate under environments containing gases such as H2S, SO2, O2 etc, which can attack the metallic structure and impose serious problems of corrosion. Corrosion control in high temperature sulfur bearing environments is a challenging problem requiring information on local gaseous species at the surface of alloy and mechanisms of degradation in these environments. Coatings have proved to be a better alternative for improving corrosion resistance without compromising the bulk mechanical properties. Changes in process conditions may result in thermal and/or environment cycling between oxidizing and sulfidizing environments at the alloy surface, which can damage the protective scale formed on the alloy surface, leading to increase in corrosion rates. Objective of this study was to understand the effect of fluctuating environments on corrosion kinetics of carbon steels and develop diffusion based coatings to mitigate the high temperatures corrosion under these conditions. More specifically, the focus was : (1) to characterize the local gaseous environments at the surface of alloys in boilers; (2) optimizing diffusion coatings parameters for carbon steel; (3)understand the underlying failure mechanisms in cyclic environments; (4) to improve aluminide coating behavior by co-deposition of reactive elements such as Yttrium and Hafnium; (5) to formulate a plausible mechanism of coating growth and effects of alloying elements on corrosion; and (6) to understand the spallation behavior of scale by measuring stresses in the scales. The understanding of coating mechanism and effects of fluctuating gaseous environments provides information for designing materials with more reliable performance. The study also investigates the mechanism behind the effect of REs on scale adhesion and sulfidation behavior. Thus, the present work will have a broad impact on the field of materials and coatings selection for high temperature industrial environments such as boilers and gasifiers, and provides information on RE-modified aluminized coatings on carbon steel as an alternative for the use of bulk superalloys under high temperature sulfur bearing environments.

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Ammonium has been detected in and around several epithermal Au-Ag deposits, including those in Nevada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, and New Zealand, using short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance spectroscopy. This study examined the distribution and occurrence of ammonium in three epithermal low-sulfidation vein-type deposits in the Hauraki goldfield of New Zealand: Martha (>6.7Moz Au, >42.1Moz Ag), Favona (>0.6Moz Au, >2.36Moz Ag), and the recently discovered Wharekirauponga (WKP; 0.42Moz Au, 0.8Moz Ag) deposit. The Martha and Favona auriferous quartz-adularia veins are hosted by late Miocene to Pliocene andesite, whereas auriferous veins at WKP are hosted by late Miocene to Pliocene rhyolite. The wallrock of all three deposits is altered to form quartz, illite, smectite, adularia, chlorite, and pyrite +/- kaolinite. Ammonium contents are enriched (>137 ppm) in wallrock samples from all three deposits and low (<94 ppm) in vein samples. Ammonium contents are higher at Favona (<10,675 ppm) than at Martha (<192 ppm) and WKP (<2,783 ppm). Leaching experiments using a 2N KCl solution show that most ammonium is in mineral structures (>90% at Favona, >80% at Martha, >70% at WKP). There is a positive correlation of ammonium contents with LOI (0.6 – 16.3 wt%) and with K2O (1.3 – 8.0 wt%) in all samples which suggest a hydrous potassium mineral as the major host of the ammonium. This is supported by the SWIR data obtained by previous workers of these samples where they show an absorption at ~1410 nm due to OH. At Favona, samples with high ammonium (>990 ppm) are reported to have significant absorption at ~2000 nm and ~2100 nm in the SWIR spectra likely due to ammonium. High ammonium contents (990 – 10,675 ppm) are found in rocks less than ~100m from the Favona vein which occur within an ammonium-bearing zone identified by previous workers based on SWIR. Samples outside of this zone contain low ammonium (107 – 301 ppm) with the smectite altered samples being the lowest. Ammonium contents within the hangingwall (1,827 – 10,675 ppm) of the Favona vein tend to be higher than in the footwall (990 – 4,301 ppm) and are highest within the most intensely illite altered rocks. At WKP, the intensely adularia +/- minor illite altered samples within 100m of the main East-Graben (EG) vein contain low ammonium (<200 ppm). The intensely illite altered samples away from the EG vein (>100m) have higher ammonium contents (200 – 800 ppm). This relationship of high ammonium contents to high illite abundance confirms illite as the major host of ammonium in these deposits. δ15N values for all samples (n=54) including near and far from auriferous veins range from +0.5 to +7.9 ‰, suggesting the derivation of most of the ammonium from the Jurassic greywacke basement or sediments intercalated within the volcanic rocks.

Aluminium smelting is a high temperature electrometallurgical process, which suffers considerable inefficiencies in power utilization and equipment maintenance. Aluminium smelting cell works in the extreme environments that contain extraordinarily aggressive gases, such as HF, CO and SO2. Mild steel used as a structural material in the aluminium industry, can be catastrophically corroded or oxidized in these conditions. This project was mainly concerned with extending the lifetime of metal structures installed immediately above the aluminium smelting cells. An aluminium-rich coating was developed on low carbon steel A06 using pack cementation technique. Yttria (Y2O3) was also used to improve the corrosion resistance of coating. Kinetics of the coating formation were studied. XRD, FESEM and FIB were employed to investigate the phase constitution and the surface morphology. Together with other potentially competitive materials, aluminium-rich coating was evaluated in simulated plant environments. Results from the long time (up to 2500h) isothermal oxidation of materials at high temperature (800??C) in air showed that the oxidation resistance of coated A06 is close to that of stainless steel 304 and even better than SS304 in cyclic oxidation tests. Coated A06 was also found to have the best sulfidation resistance among the materials tested in the gas mixture contains SO2 at 800??C. Related kinetics and mechanisms were also studied. The superior corrosion resistance of the coated A06 is attributed to the slow growing alpha-Al2O3 formed. Low temperature corrosion tests were undertaken in the gas mixtures containing air, H2O, HCl and SO2 at 400??C. Together with SS304 and 253MA, coated A06 showed excellent corrosion resistance in all the conditions. The ranking of the top three materials for corrosion resistance is: 253MA, coated A06 and SS304. It is believed that aluminised A06 is an ideal and economical replacement material in the severe corrosive aluminium smelting cell environment.

Aluminium smelting is a high temperature electrometallurgical process, which suffers considerable inefficiencies in power utilization and equipment maintenance. Aluminium smelting cell works in the extreme environments that contain extraordinarily aggressive gases, such as HF, CO and SO2. Mild steel used as a structural material in the aluminium industry, can be catastrophically corroded or oxidized in these conditions. This project was mainly concerned with extending the lifetime of metal structures installed immediately above the aluminium smelting cells. An aluminium-rich coating was developed on low carbon steel A06 using pack cementation technique. Yttria (Y2O3) was also used to improve the corrosion resistance of coating. Kinetics of the coating formation were studied. XRD, FESEM and FIB were employed to investigate the phase constitution and the surface morphology. Together with other potentially competitive materials, aluminium-rich coating was evaluated in simulated plant environments. Results from the long time (up to 2500h) isothermal oxidation of materials at high temperature (800??C) in air showed that the oxidation resistance of coated A06 is close to that of stainless steel 304 and even better than SS304 in cyclic oxidation tests. Coated A06 was also found to have the best sulfidation resistance among the materials tested in the gas mixture contains SO2 at 800??C. Related kinetics and mechanisms were also studied. The superior corrosion resistance of the coated A06 is attributed to the slow growing alpha-Al2O3 formed. Low temperature corrosion tests were undertaken in the gas mixtures containing air, H2O, HCl and SO2 at 400??C. Together with SS304 and 253MA, coated A06 showed excellent corrosion resistance in all the conditions. The ranking of the top three materials for corrosion resistance is: 253MA, coated A06 and SS304. It is believed that aluminised A06 is an ideal and economical replacement material in the severe corrosive aluminium smelting cell environment.

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[pt] O dissulfeto de ferro pode ser aplicado em sistemas de elevado grau tecnológico, por exemplo, componentes em coletores de energia solar, anodo despolarizador para a produção de hidrogênio e material catódico em baterias e pilhas de alta densidade de energia. O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo termodinâmico e cinético da reação de síntese de dissulfeto de ferro em um reator de leito fluidizado para temperaturas variando entre 400ºC e 500ºC, em regime de leito borbulhante. O rendimento da reação de síntese depende fortemente dos valores estabelecidos para as variáveis de processo: vazão de gás de arraste, temperatura, pressão parcial de enxofre gasoso, natureza das matérias-primas e tempo de reação. Em condições mais favoráveis de reação - 60 min e 500ºC - obteve-se conversão em FeS2 acima de 95%, partículas agregadas com distribuição de tamanhos na faixa de 100um a 200 um, de morfologia uniforme e esferoidal. A desagregação manual do FeS2 aglomerado conduz as partículas a tamanhos médios de 1,5um, tamanho considerado ideal para aplicações em fontes eletroquímicas. A quantificação do FeS2 foi realizada através do Método de Rietvelt associado à análise de DRX. Os resultados mostraram que é possível através de uma rota pirometalúrgica inovadora, partindo-se de reagentes relativamente baratos - Fe2O3 e S, obter o FeS2 para aplicação em catodos de pilhas e baterias. / [en] Iron disulfide can be used as an alternative material in high technological systems, as an example, solar energy collectors and cathodic component in primary and secondary batteries. The present work studies the kinetics and thermodynamics of the iron disulfide synthesis in a fluidized bed reactor for temperatures varying from 400ºC to 500ºC, operating in the bubble fluidized bed regime. It was observed that the synthesis conversion is much dependent on control variables: inert gas flow, temperature, sulfur gas partial pressure, nature of raw materials and reaction time. In favorable experimental conditions, that is 60 minute time reaction and 500ºC temperature, it was achieved more than 95% iron oxide conversion in iron disulfide, generating particle aggregates with distribution size between 100Âum and 200Âum, uniform morphology with ellipsoidal appearance. Manual desagragation leads to small iron disulfide particles with 1,4 Âum average size, ideal for electrochemical use. The iron disulfide phase quantification was performanced by the Rietvelt method associated with Powder Difraction technique. The results showed that it is possible, within a pyrometallurgy route, to synthesize iron disulfide for electrochemical applications, from cheap and easy obtainable reagents such as iron oxide and elemental sulphur.