Metal Fuels for Zero-Carbon Heat and Power

用于零碳热能和电力的金属燃料

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-05263
• 负责人: Bergthorson, Jeffrey
• 金额: $ 4.81万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=691379
• 关键词: Metal; Fuels; Zero; Carbon; Heat

In order to mitigate climate change and provide secure energy supplies in a future of limited fossil-fuel production, society must transition to a low-carbon economy. Clean primary electricity generation, from solar, wind, hydroelectric, or other sources, is technologically proven and increasingly cost competitive with fossil-fuelled systems. Much more challenging is the development of technologies to store this clean primary energy at high energy densities for long-term backup and long-distance renewable-energy trade, or to fuel heavy-duty vehicles and machinery, including long-distance trucks and ships. My group is researching all possible alternative fuel options to address this urgent need. ******The present Discovery Grant (DG) proposal builds off of our expertise in biofuel combustion and pollutant-emission properties, as well as novel combustion technologies, developed through the past DG, and focuses on our exciting and novel concept of burning metal fuels, with either air or water, as zero-carbon energy carriers. Metal fuels provide extremely high energy and power densities with potentially zero pollutant emission and I am leading a worldwide effort to promote metal fuels as a technically and economically superior concept to either batteries or the widely explored hydrogen economy. We recently published a ground-breaking paper on metals as recyclable fuels, which received significant international media attention and is now driving forward a new international research effort on metal fuels. In the last 5 years, we have pushed forward our understanding of flames in metal-fuel suspensions further than any other research group in the world. The research in this DG will build off of this strong foundation to tackle fundamental and applied research questions related to metal combustion, in general, and the use of metals as zero-carbon recyclable fuels. We are also leading the research effort to use high-temperature metal-water reactions/combustion as a novel method to produce hot hydrogen for a variety of power applications. Within this DG, we will push these experiments to supercritical water conditions where exceptional hydrogen-production rates and yields are expected. I believe that metal fuels will be an essential part of our low-carbon future and the research proposed in this DG can help us transition to a low-carbon economy, with major positive impacts on our global economy and the environment. ******My research program is enabled by, and provides significant and unique training opportunities for, the great team of HQP that I have the privilege of supervising. These HQP will work from fundamental science to developing prototypes for commercialization, such that their experience will span from theory to practice. These HQP will gain the technical, and oral and written communication, skills that will enable their success in whatever career they pursue after graduation.

为了缓解气候变化并在化石燃料生产有限的未来提供安全的能源供应，社会必须向低碳经济转型。太阳能、风能、水力发电或其他来源的清洁初级发电在技术上已得到验证，并且与化石燃料系统相比，成本竞争力越来越强。更具挑战性的是开发以高能量密度存储这种清洁一次能源的技术，以用于长期备用和远距离可再生能源贸易，或为重型车辆和机械（包括长途卡车和船舶）提供燃料。我的团队正在研究所有可能的替代燃料选择，以满足这一迫切需求。 ******目前的发现补助金 (DG) 提案建立在我们在生物燃料燃烧和污染物排放特性方面的专业知识以及通过过去的 DG 开发的新颖燃烧技术的基础上，并重点关注我们令人兴奋的新颖概念用空气或水燃烧金属燃料作为零碳能源载体。金属燃料提供极高的能量和功率密度，并且可能实现零污染物排放，我正在领导一项全球努力，将金属燃料作为一种技术和经济上优于电池或广泛探索的氢经济的概念进行推广。我们最近发表了一篇关于金属作为可回收燃料的开创性论文，该论文受到了国际媒体的广泛关注，目前正在推动一项关于金属燃料的新的国际研究工作。在过去的五年里，我们比世界上任何其他研究小组都更深入地了解了金属燃料悬浮液中的火焰。该总干事的研究将建立在这一坚实的基础上，以解决与金属燃烧相关的基础和应用研究问题，以及使用金属作为零碳可回收燃料。我们还领导研究工作，利用高温金属-水反应/燃烧作为一种新方法来生产用于各种电力应用的热氢。在这个 DG 中，我们将把这些实验推向超临界水条件，预计会产生优异的氢气生产率和产量。我相信金属燃料将成为我们低碳未来的重要组成部分，本总干事提出的研究可以帮助我们向低碳经济转型，对全球经济和环境产生重大积极影响。 ******我的研究计划由我有幸监督的 HQP 优秀团队支持，并为其提供重要且独特的培训机会。这些总部将致力于从基础科学到开发商业化原型，因此他们的经验将涵盖从理论到实践。这些总部人员将获得技术、口头和书面沟通技能，这些技能将使他们在毕业后从事的任何职业中取得成功。