Metal fuels as clean energy carriers for powering the Canadian Arctic

清洁、无碳的能源对加拿大北极地区的经济发展至关重要，以取代柴油发电机的关键作用，柴油发电机造成污染，并导致二氧化碳排放，导致气候变化。到目前为止，我们在麦吉尔大学的科学家团队提出的金属燃料的概念似乎是满足良好低碳能源载体的所有限制的唯一替代解决方案：安全，能源密集，可靠，并且可以以低成本大规模生产。 我们建议建立，并分析的性能，湍流金属燃料燃烧器。这些研究将在麦吉尔大学最先进的燃烧实验室进行，包括但不限于火焰稳定性、火焰温度、NOx污染和湍流火焰速度测量。湍流稳定的金属火焰几乎没有得到任何先前的研究，该项目是将金属燃料发展成为低碳能源解决方案的关键一步。 该项目将与世界领先的钢铁（铁）制造商塔塔钢铁公司合作完成，该公司开发了一种新型铁粉，可以成为一种优秀的可回收燃料。塔塔钢铁公司通过其在加拿大的铁矿和生产设施，作为供应商和客户，在生产和商业化金属燃料方面处于独特的地位。塔塔集团在全球范围内涉足许多不同的技术领域，包括采矿、矿物加工和运输，这有望使金属燃料技术迅速应用于各个行业。塔塔将以现金和实物大力支持这一项目。 金属燃料概念的发展将导致在加拿大创造知识产权，并允许创建生产金属燃料和金属燃料燃烧器的公司。这种新形式的能源载体将有利于全国可再生能源的发展，创造以环保方式开采偏远地区自然资源的可能性，并为加拿大未来通过金属燃料出口多余的清洁电力开发国际市场。

Clean, carbon-free sources of energy are essential for the economic development of the Canadian Arctic to replace the key role of diesel generators, which are polluting and lead to carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change. So far, the concept of metal fuels, proposed by our team of scientists at McGill, appears to be the only alternative solution that meets all of the constraints for a good low-carbon energy carrier: safe, energy dense, reliable, and producible on very large scales at low cost. We propose to build, and analyze the performance of, a turbulent metal fuel burner. The studies will be performed in our state-of-the-art combustion laboratory at McGill University and will include, but not be limited to, flame stabilization, flame temperature, NOx pollution, and turbulent flame speed measurements. Turbulent stabilized metal flames have received almost no prior study and this project is a key step towards developing metal fuels into a low-carbon energy solution. This project will be done in collaboration with Tata Steel, a world-leading steel (iron) manufacturer, that has developed a novel iron powder that could be an excellent recyclable fuel. Tata Steel, through its iron mines and production facilities in Canada, is in a unique position to produce and commercialize metal fuels as both a supplier and customer. The Tata Group's global reach into many different technology domains, including mining, mineral processing, and transportation, is promising for the rapid adoption of metal-fuel technologies into a variety of sectors. Tata will strongly support this project in cash and in kind. The development of the metal fuel concept will lead to the creation of intellectual property in Canada and allow the creation of companies that will produce both metal fuels and metal fuel burners. This new form of energy carrier will favor the development of renewable energy across the country, create the possibility to extract natural resources in remote locations in an environmentally-friendly way, and also develop international markets for the future export of Canada's excess clean electricity through metal fuels.