Sentences with phrase «solar reactor»

Solar reactors don't need the big turbine or generator for making electricity, but only consist of a tower, a solar field, a receiver and the reaction chamber.

Syngas production by simultaneous splitting of H2O and CO2 via ceria redox reactions in a high temperature solar reactor Philipp Furler, Jonathan R. Scheffe and Aldo Steinfeld Energy & Environmental Science, 5 (3): 6098 - 6103, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor -LSB-...]

«Solar reactors in the past have had the problem of what you do at night when you don't have sun, or even when clouds go by,» said the paper's lead author, Justin Lapp, formerly of DLR, and now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine.

Mintek pyrometallurgy engineer Lina Hockaday is trying a highly focused solar reactor to replace the fossil energy used as part of the steelmaking process Read More...

So solar reactors for thermochemistry use thousands rather than hundreds of suns, to get to these temperatures.

In superheating, water is heated well beyond its boiling point — in this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.

The key component of the splitting process is a high - temperature solar reactor containing a reticulated porous ceramic (RPC) structure made of ceria (CeO2) which facilitates molecule splitting.

Research into thermochemical solar reactors to split water to hydrogen is a priority in top national laboratories internationally.

The promise of solar fuels is that we could have zero carbon fuels like hydrogen without the climate - damaging carbon emissions it takes to make hydrogen from natural gas today, so perfecting solar reactors is key to a 100 % clean energy future.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

To produce hydrogen for example, A CONTISOL - type solar reactor would comprise a solar field of heliostats (mirrors), a tower, an air receiver and the heat storage.

Experimentally, solar reactors range from 1 meter to 5 meters to demonstrate the concept or as pilot projects, depending a little on the technology.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor to create syngas.

Solar reactors don't include the large power block of a CSP plant, which is a full thermal power station producing electricity (except with heat supplied by the sun).

«In these high temperature solar reactors, the center spot on the tower where all the mirrors focus is best for high temperature chemistry.

International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night — because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) and includes thermal energy storage.

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Schematic of the solar reactor configuration for the two - step solar - driven thermochemical production of fuels.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

According to the SOLAR - JET Project Coordinator at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Andreas Sizmann, a solar reactor with a 1 square kilometer heliostat field could generate 20,000 litres of kerosene a day.

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center have tested a solar reactor concept known as CONTISOL, which also contains a thermal energy storage system to allow it to run day or night.

But more recently, solar reactors have taken up this research into thermochemistry, based on solar heat rather than nuclear.

The primary contribution to the SOLAR - JET project is in the development of the solar reactor technology for the H2O / CO2 - splitting thermochemical cycle via ceria redox reactions.