Electrolysis of Silicate Minerals in Reduced Gravity for Metal and Oxygen Production

A discussion of the terrestrial economics of electrochemical and hydrogen based green steel production methods. Aggregation of material property models for molten silicate minerals and an investigation into how those material properties change during iron and oxygen production. Experimental work on electrolysis of viscous solutions in random positioning machine simulated micro-gravity. Multiphysics simulation of Lunar regolith electrolyzer which includes temperature and composition dependent material properties. Fluid convection (natural and bubble driven), heat flows, and primary current distributions were simultaneously solved for and compared for Earth, Moon, and Mars operation.