Zhenze Li Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Natural Analogue Projects of nuclear waste repository environment are key to supplement a safety case for DGR licensing, and critical to our understanding of the paleogeological impact on surface morphology, fate and transport of nuclides in the underground as well as the safety assessment for the future waste disposal facilities. Therefore, I am.

Environmental Risk Assessment Division

• Lead the numerical modelling and assessment of the short-term and long-term geotechnical and environmental risks of DGR for hazardous wastes
• Provide solutions to challenging engineering problems for my client, i.e. the THMC coupled behaviour of unsaturated expansive soils with application in waste containment
• Develop constitutive models and governing equations for characterization of bentonite soils, i.e. water retention curves, hydraulic conductivity, swelling pressure and… Show more
• Develop constitutive models and governing equations for characterization of bentonite soils, i.e. water retention curves, hydraulic conductivity, swelling pressure and oedometer test under various dry density and.
• Develop and calibrate anisotropic visco-elastoplastic constitutive models for shale and limestone; Implement into field cases in various key projects and facilities
• Evaluate field THM coupled heating experiments on bentonite seals installed in repository host rock (DECOVALEX_HE-E project) Show less

Montreal, Canada Area

I led the numerical modelling works for the design of the transmissive gratings, and CMOS image sensors that are used in several prototype 3D imaging system to predict the depth of view. I acquired in-depth understanding of the Optics and Wavelength dependence of the gratings and color filter array and photodiodes. - I developed numerical models and.

Ottawa, Canada Area

The business I initiated was aimed at providing leading R&D consultancy on GeoEnvironmental Engineering, specifically on acid mining drainage management, mining waste containment, site remediation, multiphysics coupled modelling for hazardous waste management in geological repositories, reactive transport modelling in both local and regional scales.

Ottawa

• Proposed and validated a series of THMC fully coupled models for multiphase reactive transport in porous media
• Developed numerical tools by linking Flac3D-TOUGHREACT to thoroughly account for the complicated behaviors of bedrocks under coupled thermo-hydraulic-mechanic-chemical effects
• Investigated geochemical reactions and the impacts on transport of aqueous species and gas phase pollutant
• Developed constitutive models for brittle rocks, i.e. Elasto-plastic damage (EPD) model… Show more
• Developed constitutive models for brittle rocks, i.e. Elasto-plastic damage (EPD) model and Chemo-elasto-plastic damage (CEPD) model
• Carried out extensive modeling validations with experimental results and applications into engineering circumstances

Kyoto, Japan

• Examined the permeability of clay barriers under chemical and biochemical influences
• Discovered the critical factors governing the fabric and permeability of compacted clay liners (CCL), which entails invention of CCL quality control method (k<1E-9 m/s)
• Developed Electric-Hydraulic-Chemical (EHC) coupled models for solute transport and clogging flows in landfill liners
• Extensively explored the application of a series of biochars in environmental remediations
• Conducted… Show more
• Conducted project management duties and played a key role in scientific outreaches Show less