The HELIOS – MSCA DN project welcomes Mohammad Jafarzadeh to the team as DC5 at K1-MET GmbH and @Montanuniversitaet Leoben. Mohammad will take on research about hydrogen plasma-based reduction of chromite/chromium oxide for stainless steel production. He will use state-of-the-art hydrogen-plasma smelting reduction (HPSR) equipment to evaluate the reducibility of Cr2O3. After evaluating a method to characterize the kinetic parameters, Mohammad will determine the optimum process conditions and expand the investigation to mixtures of Cr2O3 with other oxides like Fe2O3, to realize the first H-reduced metallic Fe-Cr suitable for use as raw material in the EAF melting together with scrap.
Mohammad is an experienced Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis (SHS) of Intermetallic Compounds and Coating Techniques (Conversion Coatings and Cladding) with an interest in Thermal Plasma Technology, Metal Extraction (Mineral Oxides’ Reduction), Green Energy Resources, Powder Metallurgy, and Coating Methods.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Tabriz in the field of Materials Engineering – Industrial Metallurgy and a Master’s Degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology in the field of Materials Engineering – Identification and Selection of Engineering Materials.
For more details about the HELIOS Project (Doctoral Network on the adoption of Hydrogen mEtalLurgy In the climate-neutral production Of Steel) please visit the Project page.
