Presentation Title:
Sustainable ceramic technology: an holistic overview of carbon mitigation for ceramic technology
While it is essential to drive new products and innovation across the ceramic sector, whitewares, heavy clay products and refractories constitute 90% of the worldwide volume production of ceramics and are dominantly sintered using CH4 kilns.
There is a strong drive to switch to H2 for ceramic production but this is expensive and needs to be accompanied by a wide range of resource and energy efficiency strategies, designed to reduce overall energy costs. This contribution explores the response required to reduce carbon emissions in the ceramic sector, focusing on a range of current and future mitigation strategies. The role of new materials and processes will be assessed.
Ian M. Reaney (IMR, PI) is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and the IOM3, and Dyson Chair in Ceramics at UoS. He is European Site Director for the US National Science Foundation Centre for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics.
He has won numerous awards, such as the Verulam Medal (2017) and most recently the Robert E Newnham Award (2021) from the IEEE for structure-property relations in electroceramics. He is a named Investigator on >35 EPSRC grants totalling >£45m with >£8m as PI, including the recent, multi- and interdisciplinary grant (EP/L017563/1, £2.4m) on ‘Substitution and Sustainability in Functional Materials and Devices’ (SUBST) and Transforming the Foundation Industries Network+ (EP/V026402/1, £2.3m). He has >400 publications (>24k citations, h-index=81).
