Physics and Chemistry of Supercritical Water and Novel Energy Generation System

在过去的十年里，随着新技术的发展，人们对高温和超临界水的科学和工程兴趣迅速增长，以利用水在极端温度和压力下的独特性质。超临界水在危险废物回收、太阳能制氢、碳固存和发电方面有着巨大的前景。我的主要研究目标是对高温和高压条件下的水体系和反应提供基本的、分子水平的理解，并为它们的研究开发实验和建模工具。我的主要研究重点是能源发电系统中的氢水化学。我的另一个研究兴趣领域是用于废物利用的超临界水氧化技术，该过程不会在环境中留下有害的副产品。在我的工作中，我使用了一个独特的流动反应堆进行高温高压实验，并使用了一个并行的集群进行数值模拟。我的项目的最终目的是将基础研究的成果交付给该行业。它应该有助于更好地了解高温和超临界水体系，从而促进它们在许多传统和新技术中的高效和安全应用，例如拟议的加拿大第四代超临界水冷反应堆。

Over the past decade, scientific and engineering interest in high temperature and supercritical water has been growing quickly as new technologies are developed to harness the unique properties of water at extreme temperatures and pressures. Supercritical water holds great promise in hazardous waste recycling, solar hydrogen production, carbon sequestration and power generation. My major research objective is to provide a fundamental, molecular level understanding of aqueous systems and reactions under high temperature and pressure conditions, and to develop experimental and modeling tools for their study. My primary research focus is on hydrogen-water chemistry in energy generation systems. Another area of my research interests is supercritical water oxidation technology for waste utilization, the process that leaves no harmful by-products in the environment. In my work I make use of a unique flow reactor for high temperature and pressure experiments and a parallel cluster for numerical simulations. My program is ultimately intended to deliver the results of fundamental research to the industry. It should lead to better understanding of high temperature and supercritical aqueous systems, and thus advance their efficient and safe application in many traditional and novel technologies, such as the proposed Canadian GEN-IV Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor.