CRCT Research Day and FactSage mini-workshop, August 26 2021

NOTE: Les présentations et ateliers sont en anglais, toutefois, vous êtes toujours les bienvenus à  poser des questions en français, les présentateurs sont presque tous bilingues.

PRESENTATORS, INSTRUCTORS and ASSISTANTS:

Eve BÉLISLE, Iman BOUARA, Ricardo CASTILLO, Patrice CHARTRAND, Evan FORTIER, Aimen GHERIBI, Amine HABBOUBI, Jean-Philippe HARVEY, Javier JOFRE, Mohamed KHALIL, Thomas MACKOWIAK, Kenza NEKMOUCHE, Kentaro OISHI, Laura PRESSI, Antoine RINCENT, Vincent RIOUX-FRENETTE Laurence ST-GERMAIN, Sarah Myriam TOURÉ, Minh Duc VO

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Jean-Philippe Harvey
E-mail: jean-philippe.harvey@polymtl.ca
Website: https://www.crct.polymtl.ca


Program (revised August 25, 2021)



CRCT projects overview

8:00

Welcome message (Jean-Philippe Harvey)

8:10

Prof. Harvey: current research projects

   

Part 1 - Energy and recycling

8:30

Valorization of the residual energy of high temperature processes via power cycles (Thomas Mackowiak)

8:40

Tungsten and its alloys for nuclear fusion reactor materials (Vincent Rioux-Frenette)

8:50

Challenges associated to the valorization of end-of-life green-glass bottles in Quebec (Kenza Nekmouche)

9:00 

On the recycling of electronic waste (Mohamed Khalil)

   

Part 2 - Ironmaking, steelmaking and recycling

9:15

DRI Project: Direct Reduction of Iron ores with H2 (Sarah Myriam Touré)

9:25

Study of the impact of controlled impurities content and microstructure on the mechanical behavior of 13Cr-4Ni steel (Laura Pressi)

9:40

Steel recycling challenges (Iman Bouara)

9:50 Break / questions (10 min)
   

Part 3a - Aluminium alloys

10:00

tProps: from DFT ground-state calculations to FactSage compound database (Javier Jofre)

10:15

On the development of a crystallographic database of intermetallics for the aluminum industry (Amine Habboubi)

11:25

Thermodynamic description of critical intermetallic phases for the aluminium industry using the CALPHAD approach (Minh Duc)

   

Part 3b - Aluminium alloys

10:40

On the investigation of the melting properties of Al alloys using different classical atomistic methods (Antoine Rincent)

10:55

Short range ordering-glass forming ability relationship in the Al-Cu-Zr system (Ricardo Castillo)

11:10

Specific heat capacity measurement of aluminum and aluminum alloys : An experimental examination of FactSage database (Kentaro Oishi)

   

Future FactSage developments

11:25

On the design of materials aided by first principle simulations (Aïmen Gheribi)

11:45

Handling streams and multiple equilibrium reactors in FactSage (Evan Fortier)

12:00 LUNCH BREAK (1 hour)
   

FactSage training

13:00

What is new in FactSage 8.1 (Patrice Chartrand)

13:30

Introduction to thermochemistry via FactSage (Jean-Philippe Harvey)

FactSage simulations on:

14:30

Carbo-reduction and aluminothermy (Laurence St-Germain)

15:00

Titanium production (Ricardo Castillo)

15:30

Aluminum alloys (Minh Duc Vo)

16:00

Stainless steels (Laura Pressi)

   

 

16:30

METSIM-FactSage connection (Jean-Philippe Harvey)

16:45

Introduction to molecular dynamics (Antoine Rincent)


HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS WITH WEBEX

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