Sustainable Hydrogen and Aluminothermic Reduction Process for Manganese, its alloys and Critical Raw Materials Production

Project Information

HAlMan

Grant agreement ID: 101091936

DOI

10.3030/101091936

EC signature date 18 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 8 046 086,88

EU contribution

€ 7 316 151,63

Coordinated by

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Implemented communication activities. 1st version

First set of communication actions will be described in the report.

Website and established social media profiles/pages

Website, social media accounts, flyers and other communication related items will be implemented. This report will describe how these are constructed and how these should be used.

Communication and dissemination strategy

A tailor-made communication, dissemination and exploitation strategy and action plan will be established for HAlMan, taking into consideration various target audiences.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Hydrogen: The key to a more sustainable manganese production

Author(s): Jafar Safarian
Published in: Reserach Features, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Reserach Features
DOI: 10.26904/RF-147-4432829893

Evaluation of the Effects of Fluidization Conditions on Hydrogen Reduction in Manganese Ore Fines

Author(s): Dursman Mchabe, Sello Tsebe, Elias Matinde
Published in: Minerals, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2075-163X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/MIN15040368

Isothermal pre-reduction behavior of Nchwaning Manganese Ore in H2 atmosphere

Author(s): Alok Sarkar, Trygve Lindahl Schanche, Jafar Safarian
Published in: MDPI, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/materproc2023015058

Kinetics study on the H2 reduction of Nchwaning manganese ore at elevated temperatures

Author(s): Alok Sarkar, Trygve Lindahl Schanche, Maria Wallin, Jafar Safarian
Published in: International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1674-4799
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12613-025-3094-X

Effect of Pre-reduction of Manganese Ore by Hydrogen on Its Smelting Behavior and Interaction with Stable Oxides

Author(s): Pankaj Kumar, Jafar Safarian
Published in: Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2199-3823
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S40831-025-01162-8

Hydrogen reduction of lumpy Nchwaning ore in a fixed-bed reactor

Author(s): Trygve Lindahl Schanche, Heiko Gaertner, Frida Vollan, Alok Sarkar, Casper van der Eijk
Published in: International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1674-4799
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12613-025-3125-7

An Integrated, CFD-Based, Analysis of Carbonation in a Stirred Tank Reactor

Author(s): Georgios P. Gakis, Danai Marinos, Ioannis G. Aviziotis, Efthymios Balomenos, Andreas G. Boudouvis, Dimitrios Panias
Published in: Materials, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/MA18071535

Evaluating the Reaction Kinetics on the H2 Reduction of a Manganese Ore at Elevated Temperatures

Author(s): Alok Sarkar, Trygve Lindahl Schanche, Maria Wallin, Jafar Safarian
Published in: Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2199-3823
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S40831-024-00964-6

Other (1)

The Production of Manganese and Its Alloys Through the HAlMan Process

Author(s): Jafar Safarian
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2023, 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_99

Conference proceedings (1)

Computational reacting flow models for the pre-reduction of lumpy Nchwaning manganese ore with hydrogen

Author(s): Mopeli Khama, Quinn G Reynolds, Buhle Xakalashe, Alok Sarkar, Jafar Safarian
Published in: Southern African Pyrometallurgy 2024, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Southern African Pyrometallurgy 2024