Ophiolites and Their Industrial and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2692
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Interests: energy storage and policy; hydrogen; carbon capture and stotage; geo-engineering; hydro-pump energy storage; nanomaterials; land reclamation; ultramafic rocks petrology; industrial minerals; critical raw materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Ophiolites comprise key suites to understanding the Earth’s mantle and oceanic crust development and geotectonic evolution; however, ophiolites used as construction materials have many industrial and environmental applications and have constituted part of our daily life for hundreds of years. This Special Issue will explore modern and alternative applications from rocks where included in ophiolite complexes in the world in a wide range of industrial and environmental applications that are directly dependent on their particular mineralogical characteristics. An extensive study of the relationship and effect of the petrography of ophiolites is also suggested in new construction materials and applications, such as concrete and road construction. More specifically, the effect of different types of hard aggregate materials on the quality of produced concrete for build and road constructions will be examined. Several analytical methods such as optical microscopy, SEM, diffraction methods, XRF, EPMA, ICP-MS, FTIR, Raman, TEM, and tomography are used in order to analyze in detail the petrographic features of each construction material. A supplementary aim of this Special Issue is to present the development of environmental applications of these rocks for wastewater treatment and perhaps used as energy storage reservoirs (e.g., CO2 storage in basalts or/and serpentinites), thus enhancing life cycle sustainability. Among commonly proposed CO2 storage techniques, the injection of anthropogenic CO2 into deep basalt and peridotite formations is quite promising due to their large potential storage capacity and broad geographic distribution. Contributions from geoscientists and engineers or engineering geologists who deal with mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, structural features, construction materials, CO2 capture, and mapping of ophiolites are very welcome.
Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koukouzas
Guest Editor
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