• High-Temperature Reactive Wetting of Natural Quartz by Liquid Magnesium 

      Rasouli, Azam; Kudyba, Artur; Bruzda, Grzegorz; Safarian, Jafar; Tranell, Maria Gabriella (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      High-temperature wetting of natural, high-purity quartz (SiO2) and liquid magnesium (Mg) was investigated at temperatures between 973 and 1273 K. Sessile drop experiments using the capillary purification (CP) procedure ...
    • Kinetics of Magnesiothermic Reduction of Natural Quartz 

      Rasouli, Azam; Tsoutsouva, Maria; Safarian, Jafar; Tranell, Gabriella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this work, the kinetics of natural quartz reduction by Mg to produce either Si or Mg2Si was studied through quantitative phase analysis. Reduction reaction experiments were performed at various temperatures, reaction ...
    • Magnesiothermic Reduction of Natural Quartz 

      Rasouli, Azam; Herstad, Karl Edvin; Safarian, Jafar; Tranell, Gabriella (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In the current work, the metallothermic reduction of natural quartz by magnesium has been studied at 1373 K under different reaction conditions, i.e. quartz type, quartz particle size, Mg:SiO2 mole ratio and reaction time. ...
    • Magnesiothermic Reduction of Silica: A Machine Learning Study 

      Tang, Kai; Rasouli, Azam; Safarian, Jafar; Ma, Xiang; Tranell, Maria Gabriella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Fundamental studies have been carried out experimentally and theoretically on the magnesiothermic reduction of silica with different Mg/SiO2 molar ratios (1–4) in the temperature range of 1073 to 1373 K with different ...
    • Silica Fume Formation in Different Gas Atmospheres 

      Andersen, Vegar; Rasouli, Azam; Einarsrud, Kristian Etienne; Tranell, Maria Gabriella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Silica fume is an important byproduct from the silicon production process, with mainly concrete and refractory applications. In this work, the effect of different combustion gas atmospheres on the properties of silica fume ...
    • Synthesis of Mg2Si and its use for Silane production 

      Rasouli, Azam (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:291, Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      The increase in the use of renewable energy sources is crucial to address global warming and its impact on our planet. Solar energy is predicted to experience the most rapid growth of the different sources of renewable ...