Christopher Taylor

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Projects

(gc3568)Computational Design of Catalysts: The Control of Chemical Transformation

Lead Institution

University of Alabama

Principal Investigator

David Dixon

Project type

Capability Research

The petroleum and chemical industries contribute ~$500 billion to the GNP of the U.S. These industries rely for their financial well being on their ability to produce new products by using energy…

Atomistic Modeling of Corrosion Accelerants in the Petroleum Industry

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christopher Taylor

Project type

Exploratory Research

Materials selection is critical to petroleum refining operations, due to the frequently aggressive chemical, flow and thermal conditions encountered by structural components such as pipelines and…

First-principles simulation of corrosion processes relevant to long-term technetium disposition via incorporation in metal alloy waste forms

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christopher Taylor

Project type

Exploratory Research

The selection of an appropriate method for the disposition of long-lived radioisotopes resulting from fission processes in nuclear reactors is an exceptionally challenging problem. Particularly…