Acquisition of an internally heated pressure vessel system

该奖项提供53%的资金用于收购一个 可保持压力的内热式压力容器 压力可达0.1 GPa（10 Kbars），温度可达1400 K 同步压力系统的安装和操作 地质系流体研究实验室 弗吉尼亚理工大学和州立大学的科学。 这些设备将主要用于研究 环境下地质相关流体的性质 地壳的状况。目前在流体领域的工作 研究实验室专注于水和二氧化碳流体 与溶解的氯化物盐的混合物，它们在被捕获时的行为 矿物中的流体包裹体，以及它们在 流体时代地质条件的重建 包裹体形成

This award provides 53% funding for the acquisition of an internally-heated pressure vessel capable of maintaining pressures up to 0.1 GPa (10 Kbars) and temperatures up to 1400K simultaneously. The pressure system is to be installed and operated in the Fluids Research Laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences at Virginia Institute of Technology and State University. The equipment will be used primarily in research on the properties of geologically relevant fluids under the ambient conditions in the Earth's crust. Present work in the Fluids Research Laboratory is focussed on water and carbon dioxide fluid mixtures with dissolved chloride salts, their behavior when trapped in fluid inclusions in minerals, and their use in the reconstruction of geological conditions at the time of fluid inclusion formation.