Professor
Office: CSB E117
Phone: (705) 748-1011 ext 7063
Email: isvishchev@trentu.ca
Research Lab:
Website: Super-Critical Water Research Laboratory
Education
B.Sc., M.Sc. Moscow State University (1984)
Ph.D. USSR Academy of Sciences (1988)
Research Interests
- Physics and Chemistry of Water. Advanced Oxidation Processes.
- GEN IV Supercritical Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor Chemistry.
- The supercritical water cooled nuclear reactor (SCWR) is an innovative candidate to meet the future needs of the energy market. Our laboratory maintains Supercritical Water Test Facility for the study of aqueous chemistry and particle formation processes in a primary coolant circuit of CANDU SCWR. The key technical objective of our work is to minimize corrosion and particle deposition rates both in SCWR pressure tube and on out-of-core surfaces, such as turbine blades. We also pursue a technology for hydrogen co-generation by thermochemical water splitting under supercritical power cycle conditions.
- Parallel Computing. Molecular Dynamics Simulations.