Tailoring high-purity carbon from methane abatement via Joule-heating. This project aims to demonstrate efficient carbon material structural controls via a new direct Joule heating approach to produce

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Tailoring high-purity carbon from methane abatement via Joule-heating. This project aims to demonstrate efficient carbon material structural controls via a new direct Joule heating approach to produce multiple high-purity and high-value carbon products. This project expects to address a key challenge in splitting methane (the second most abundant greenhouse gas) into hydrogen and solid carbon materials without emitting carbon dioxide. Expected outcomes include new knowledge on carbon material formation, reaction kinetics, heat and mass transfer, and environmental and market impacts under new conditions. These will incentivise the industrial adoption of methane pyrolysis for methane abatement, carbon material, and hydrogen production, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a more sustainable society.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4016 - Materials Engineering. Lead: Prof Yuan Chen