Microwave heating is a green, efficient and sustainable technique for thermal process, which
has been evaluated as an ideal candidate to satisfy the present and future sustainable …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a broad class of porous crystalline materials that
show great potential for a wide-range of applications in areas such as energy and …

Hard rock breaking is a great challenge for deep drilling and mining engineering, and the
microwave-assisted rock breaking technique offers a promising solution. However, the lack …

Global demand for energy transition metals is expected to lead to an intensification of mining
activities and an increase in associated land disturbance and mine waste volumes. This …

The development of a model to describe the Electromagnetic-Thermal-Mechanical (ETM)
multiphysics interaction in rocks requires careful consideration of the heating mechanism …

Enhancing the energy-effectiveness of microwave-assisted fragmentation is one of the
overlooked areas in the published literature. A novel calorimetric technique is proposed to …

Carbon-based nanomaterials have drawn significant interest as desirable nanomaterials
and composites for the adsorptive removal of various classes of pollutants from water owing …

The realisation of microwave-induced fracturing of hard rocks has potential significance for
microwave-assisted mechanical rock fracturing and stress release in deep rock masses. In …

A pilot scale microwave treatment system capable of treating 10–150 t/h of material at 10–
200 kW was designed, constructed and commissioned in order to understand the …

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous materials consisting of metal ions or
clusters linked by organic molecules. The high value of MOFs arises from the amount of …