Structural and Electronic Properties of Some Metal Oxides Content in Electric-Arc Furnace Dust

Abstract

Steel manufacturing facilities approximately emit 6Mt of electric-arc furnace dust (EAFD) annually. This dust signifies a major source of recyclable metal oxides. Investigation of those metal oxides properties are beneficial not only for applications in photonics, electronics, sensors and optics, but also for developing  new generation devices with a high execution. This work represents a systematic computational investigation to examine the structural and electronic properties of the simple metal oxides content in EAFD then compared to the obtained findings of previous experimental studies. Particularly, carrying out accurate density function theory (DFT) calculations give a detailed atomic-base insight of metal oxides that could not be obtained by merely interpreting experimental results. Simulated results presented herein for the structural and electronic properties correlate very well with experiment values.