Chair Van Dierendonck: Mechanism of global changes and biogeochemical cycles Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PhD thesis focusing on the use of stable isotopes in speleothems to reconstruct recent paleoclimates
This research aims at a critical review of the early silver metal extraction process in a proto-industrial context, both experimentally and theoretically, in order to gain a better insight into the whole early silver production chain. A dual methodological approach will be used: 1. A modern pyrometallurgical approach based on: - thermodynamics and kinetics, - smelting furnace and heat balance modeling, - oxidation and reduction experiments on ...