Acquisition of an internally heated pressure vessel system

该合同提供53%的资金用于采购一种内热压力容器，该容器能够同时维持高达0.1 GPa （10 kbar）的压力和高达1400K的温度。该压力系统将在弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学地质科学系的流体研究实验室安装和运行。该设备将主要用于研究地壳环境条件下地质相关流体的性质。流体研究实验室目前的工作重点是水和二氧化碳流体混合物与溶解的氯化物盐，它们被困在矿物中的流体包裹体中时的行为，以及它们在流体包裹体形成时的地质条件重建中的应用。

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.