Jafar Safarian
Jafar Safarian
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Faculty of Natural Sciences
Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz Vei 2, Bergbygget, room E-309
Background and activities
Fields of interest:
- Hydrogen and natural gass use in metal production
- Extractive metallurgy of silicon, ferroalloys, iron and steel,...
- Purification of silicon for solar applications; vacuum refining, slag refining, gas refining, etc.
- Production of alumina
- Thermodynamics and phase relations in metallurgical systems
- Kinetics of metallurgical reactions (reduction, oxidation, gasification, evaporation, ...)
- Hydrometallurgy
- Carbon materials and their properties for metallurgical processes
- Transport phenomena in metallurgy (heat transfer and mass transfer)
- Metallurgical lab; metallurgical furnaces, experimental design, and materials characterization
Courses:
MT8200 - Advanced Chemical Metallurgy (https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/MT8200#tab=omEmnet)
TKP4158- Hydrometalluirgical process technology (https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TKP4158#tab=omEmnet)
TKJ4162-Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics (https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TKJ4162#tab=omEmnet)
Courses
- TMT4326 - Refining and Recycling of Metals
- TMT4500 - Materials Technology, Specialization Project
- MT8200 - Advanced Chemical Metallurgy
- TKJ4162 - Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics
- TKP4158 - Hydrometallurgical Process Technology
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Carburization of Manganese Oxide Sources by Natural Gas. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B. vol. 53 (2).
- (2022) Boron Removal from Silicon Melt by gas Blowing Technique. High Temperature Materials and Processes.
- (2022) On the phosphorus evaporation from liquid silicon by Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B.
- (2022) The Use of Fe-26Si-9B Alloy as Phase Change Material in Si<inf>3</inf>N<inf>4</inf> Container. Crystals. vol. 12 (3).
- (2022) Manganese and Aluminium Recovery from Ferromanganese Slag and Al White Dross by a High Temperature Smelting-Reduction Process. Materials. vol. 15 (2).
- (2022) Magnesiothermic Reduction of Natural Quartz. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B.
- (2022) A sustainable process to produce manganese and its alloys through hydrogen and aluminothermic reduction. Processes. vol. 10 (1).
- (2022) Rheological properties of Al2O3–CaO–SiO2 slags. Calphad. vol. 77.
- (2021) Beneficiation of fluxed titaniferous slag to a marketable titania product using the modified upgraded slag process. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
- (2021) Selective Vacuum Evaporation by the Control of the Chemistry of Gas Phase in Vacuum Refining of Si. Langmuir. vol. 37 (24).
- (2021) High temperature interaction between Si–B alloys and Si3N4. Ceramics International. vol. 47 (10).
- (2021) Aluminothermic reduction of manganese oxide from selected mno-containing slags. Materials. vol. 14 (2).
- (2021) Aluminum Recovery from White Aluminum Dross by a Mechanically Activated Phase Separation and Remelting Process. JOM. vol. 73 (9).
- (2021) Valorization of aluminum dross with copper via high temperature melting to produce al-cu alloys. Materials. vol. 14 (15).
- (2021) The Utilization of Bauxite Residue with a Calcite-Rich Bauxite Ore in the Pedersen Process for Iron and Alumina Extraction. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B. vol. 52B.
- (2021) Evaluation of Calcium Aluminate Slags and Pig Irons Produced from the Smelting-Reduction of Diasporic Bauxite. Materials. vol. 14 (24).
- (2021) Duplex Process to Produce Ferromanganese and Direct Reduced Iron by Natural Gas. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. vol. 9 (14).
- (2021) Phase Transitions and Microstructural Changes During Oxidation and Reduction of a Weathered Ilmenite Concentrate. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (MME). vol. 38.
- (2021) Effects of La2O3 Addition into CaO-SiO2 Slag: Structural Evolution and Impurity Separation from Si-Sn Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B. vol. 52B (5).
- (2021) P removal from Si by Si-Ca-Al alloying-leaching refining: Effect of Al and the CaAl2Si2 phase. Separation and Purification Technology. vol. 271.