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Title: Solar-thermal fluid-wall reaction processing

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1175720

The present invention provides a method for carrying out high temperature thermal dissociation reactions requiring rapid-heating and short residence times using solar energy. In particular, the present invention provides a method for carrying out high temperature thermal reactions such as dissociation of hydrocarbon containing gases and hydrogen sulfide to produce hydrogen and dry reforming of hydrocarbon containing gases with carbon dioxide. In the methods of the invention where hydrocarbon containing gases are dissociated, fine carbon black particles are also produced. The present invention also provides solar-thermal reactors and solar-thermal reactor systems.

Research Organization:
Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, MO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-99GO10337
Assignee:
Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO) ; Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, MO)
Patent Number(s):
7,033,570
Application Number:
10/383,875
OSTI ID:
1175720
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Performance characterization of the SERI High-Flux solar furnace journal December 1991
Carbon dioxide reforming of methane in a solar volumetric receiver/reactor: the CAESAR project journal December 1991

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