Ying Wang

Chromatographic Partitioning of Impure CO2 during Injection and Redistribution at the Pore Scale

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mart Oostrom

In this project, we propose to conduct a series of pore network laboratory experiments to study the fate and transport of gaseous mixtures in model saline aquifer systems during injection of the…

A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Bonding, Energetics, and Excited States of Uranyl Compounds

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Zheming Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

One of the challenges in experimental investigations of actinide complexes is to determine their structures, bonding, and stabilities in solids and solutions. Our recent TRLIF work on U(VI), the…

Mechanisms of Fe(II)-Catalyzed Transformation of Fe(III)-(Oxyhydr)oxides

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kevin Rosso

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Interaction of aqueous Fe(II) with major Fe(III)-oxides and oxyhydroxides yields the enigmatic catalytically reactive "sorbed Fe(II)" species and apparent facile recrystallization of even…

Structure and Chemistry at the Buried Solid/Aqueous Solution Interfaces with Advanced Surface Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Lead Institution

Fudan University

Principal Investigator

Hongfei Wang

Solid/aqueous solution interface are ubiquitous and important in energy and environmental research. We propose to investigate benchmark systems in the interface sciences to find novel applications of…

The Transformation of Tetrahedral to Octahedral Coordination in Anions of Interest in High-Level Tank Waste

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jian-zhi Hu

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Raman and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in combination with computational modeling to study the conversion of soluble tetrahedral…

Crystal face influence on hematite-organic ligand interactions at iron oxide/water interfaces studied using nonlinear spectroscopy techniques

Lead Institution

University of Puget Sound

Principal Investigator

Amanda Mifflin

The proposed work will examine the interfacial phenomena of the organic ligand acetohydroxamic acid (aHa) at the hematite/water interface and the molecular structure at organic/aqueous interface…

Unraveling chemical speciation and interfacial dynamics in complex, heterogeneous
environments to efficiently process high-level radioactive wastes

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jian-zhi Hu

We propose to use NMR in combination with computational modeling, to study the conversion of soluble tetrahedral aluminum (Al) species to octahedrally coordinated Al-bearing mineral precipitates…

Pore Scale Investigations in Support of Simultaneous Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration Applications at the Field Scale

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mart Oostrom

Project type

Limited Scope

A project has been recently funded by the US Department of Energy to investigate how detailed displacement experimentation and numerical simulations at the pore and core scale can be used to improve…

Pore Scale Investigations of Simultaneous Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mart Oostrom

Two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently visited the EMSL on a rapid access proposal to investigate how detailed displacement experimentation can be used to improve the…

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