Sentences with phrase «solar thermal reactors»

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Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

The reactor is located at the National Solar ‑ Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in NM, and available for use with external collaborators.

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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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 sySOLAR - 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 sysolar reactor to create syngas.

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.

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 -LSBSOLAR - 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 -LSBsolar reactor -LSB-...]

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.

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).

Their paper, Fabrication and testing of CONTISOL: A new receiver - reactor for day and night solar thermochemistry was published in December, 2017, at Applied Thermal Engineering.

Instead of burning a fossil fuel for the heat needed to drive the thermal chemistry process, for chemical reactions like splitting H2 (hydrogen) from H2O, scientists have been testing various kinds of reactors heated by the thermal form of solar, using mirrors to concentrate the solar flux.

Latest examples include solar water splitting using ferrites at 100 kWth power level [3] and subsequent scaling up to 750 kWth at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA); thermal dissociation of ZnO as part of the two - step ZnO / Zn cycle in a 140 kWth solar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSAsolar water splitting using ferrites at 100 kWth power level [3] and subsequent scaling up to 750 kWth at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA); thermal dissociation of ZnO as part of the two - step ZnO / Zn cycle in a 140 kWth solar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSASolar de Almería (PSA); thermal dissociation of ZnO as part of the two - step ZnO / Zn cycle in a 140 kWth solar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSAsolar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSASolar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSAsolar pilot plant at PSA [5].

Copernican was acquired by Sundrop Fuels in 2008, and its solar - reactor technology is now at the heart of a 1.5 - megawatt thermal solar gasification demonstration facility in Colorado.