Carbothermal reduction

Hydrogen or carbothermal reductions use the interaction of a specific gas with lunar regolith materials to extract oxygen

Fig. 1 Experimental procedure followed for the extraction of Fe Si by the BP-1 lunar regolith simulant through carbothermal reduction.

Reduction experiments were performed, after the enrichment of the simulant in iron oxide through dry magnetic separation, under vacuum.

Thermodynamic modelling of ultra-high vacuum thermal decomposition for lunar resource processing

line made of a low- loss optical fiber in the OW array. The system enabled heating regolith to 1800 1900 C, enabling oxygen production via carbothermal reactions in practice [ 101, 102 ]. Subseque...