Full thermal decomposition of metal oxides?

[hellfire2]

I haven't been able to find much information on the thermal decomposition of metal oxides into their corresponding metals and oxygen. What temperature would Fe3O4 decompose mostly(80%) into its base elements? Additionally, how can this information be determined based upon bond energies/structures for other elements?
For those who are curious, I am looking into methods for producing metals thermally for use where reducers such as carbon are not present in high enough concentrations to be useful.
Thanks!

 

[Useful nucleus]

Check Ellingham diagrams. They provide temperature-oxygen partial pressured regimes for metal oxides. Iron oxides are well-studied. So surely you will find the needed data.

Direct computations, requires full electronic structure calculations coupled with finite temperature effects. I think there was a paper in Phys. Rev. B journal on this calculation for iron oxide. I can try googling it if you are interested.

 

[hellfire2]

Whoops misclicked there. Yeah if you could point me in the right direction for those I would appreciate it. I did look at some of the Ellingham diagrams before but was not too sure about the iron oxides because they seem to run off most of the charts. I will further investigate the paper as well.

 

[Useful nucleus]

This Ellingham diagram contains all the decompositions of iron oxides starting from Fe2O3 through Fe3O4, FeO, and eventually to Fe.

http://web.mit.edu/2.813/www/readings/Ellingham_diagrams.pdf

The paper I mentioned cared more about the transitions in the PO2-PH2O space with little regard to temperature, but it may still be useful:
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094112

An arxiv version of the paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.3105.pdfThe key thing is that the decomposition depends on both temperature and oxygen partial pressure. I hope this helps.

 

[hellfire2]

This Ellingham diagram contains all the decompositions of iron oxides starting from Fe2O3 through Fe3O4, FeO, and eventually to Fe.

http://web.mit.edu/2.813/www/readings/Ellingham_diagrams.pdf

The paper I mentioned cared more about the transitions in the PO2-PH2O space with little regard to temperature, but it may still be useful:
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094112

An arxiv version of the paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.3105.pdfThe key thing is that the decomposition depends on both temperature and oxygen partial pressure. I hope this helps.

Thank you very much for this! This helps a bunch!