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.
At the laboratory scale, a variety of
reactor concepts for the
solar thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into H2 and CO have been proposed and investigated, such as cavity - receivers with rotating or stationary structures [9], [10], aerosol flow
reactors [11], and moving and fluidized bed
reactors [12].