Undergraduate Research Assistant
CurrentCurrently assisting in the development of MSTDB-TC (Molten Salt Thermal Properties Database – Thermochemical), a thermochemical database used to model salt systems in a molten salt reactor. Through organizing and coding researched published literature containing thermochemical information of salt interactions in FactSage, considering melting points, enthalpies, entropies, and heat capacities of binary systems, I am able to gain a better understanding of why salts act a certain way under different circumstances. Utilizing calorimeters, we're able to determine heat flows or the energy required to change the phases of a salt system.