Visualization of supercritical water pseudo-boiling at Widom line crossover

Maxim, Florentina; Contescu, Cristian; Boillat, Pierre; Niceno, Bojan; Karalis, Konstantinos; Testino, Andrea; Ludwig, Christian

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12117-5

Title: Visualization of supercritical water pseudo-boiling at Widom line crossover

Journal Article · 17 September 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12117-5 · OSTI ID:1606894

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Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Lab. for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK), ENE Division; Inst. of Physical Chemistry "Ilie Murgulescu", Bucharest, (Romania)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Electrochemistry Lab. (LEC), ENE Division, and Lab. for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS), NUM Division
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Lab. for Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM), NES Division; Federal Inst. of Technology, Zurich (Switzerland)
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Lab. for Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM), NES Division
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Lab. for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK), ENE Division
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Lab. for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK), ENE Division; Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzlerland)

Supercritical water is a green solvent used in many technological applications including materials synthesis, nuclear engineering, bioenergy, or waste treatment and it occurs in nature. Despite its relevance in natural systems and technical applications, the supercritical state of water is still not well understood. Recent theories predict that liquid-like (LL) and gas-like (GL) supercritical water are metastable phases, and that the so-called Widom line zone is marking the crossover between LL and GL behavior of water. With neutron imaging techniques, we succeed to monitor density fluctuations of supercritical water while the system evolves rapidly from LL to GL as the Widom line is crossed during isobaric heating. Our observations show that the Widom line of water can be identified experimentally and they are in agreement with the current theory of supercritical fluid pseudo-boiling. This fundamental understanding allows optimizing and developing new technologies using supercritical water as a solvent.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1606894

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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