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: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=711558
• 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.

为了减轻气候变化并在有限的化石燃料生产的未来中提供安全的能源供应，社会必须过渡到低碳经济。从太阳能，风能，水力发电或其他来源进行清洁的一级发电是技术证明的，并且成本越来越具有与化石式系统的竞争力。更具挑战性的是，将这种清洁的原始能源存储在高能密度的技术中，以进行长期备份和长距离可再生能源贸易，或为重型车辆和机械加油，包括长距离卡车和船只。我的小组正在研究所有可能的替代燃料选择，以满足这种迫切需求。 目前的发现补助金（DG）提案是建立在我们在生物燃料燃烧和污染物发射特性方面的专业知识中，以及通过过去DG开发的新型燃烧技术，并着重于我们激动人心的新颖燃烧金属燃料的概念，两空气或水，作为零碳能载体。金属燃料提供了极高的能量和功率密度，并具有潜在的污染物发射，我正在领导全球努力，将金属燃料作为技术和经济上优于电池的概念或广泛探索的氢经济性促进金属燃料。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重大关注，现在正在推动有关金属燃料的新国际研究工作。在过去的五年中，我们比世界上任何其他研究小组都进一步发展了对金属燃料悬架中火焰的理解。该DG中的研究将基于这一强大的基础，以解决与金属燃烧有关的基本和应用的研究问题，并将金属用作零碳可回收燃料。我们还领导研究工作，将高温金属水反应/燃烧用作一种新方法，以生产用于各种功率应用的热氢。在此DG中，我们将将这些实验推向预期出色的氢生产率和产量的超临界水条件。我认为，金属燃料将是我们低碳未来的重要组成部分，该DG中提出的研究可以帮助我们过渡到低碳经济，对我们的全球经济和环境产生重大积极影响。 我的研究计划由我有权有权监督的HQP团队启用，并为HQP的伟大团队提供了重要的培训机会。这些HQP将从基本科学到开发商业化原型，以便它们的经验范围从理论到实践。这些HQP将获得技术，口头和书面交流的技能，这些技能将使他们在毕业后从事的任何职业中取得成功。