Skip to main content
OSTI.GOVU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

Solar thermochemical reactor and methods of manufacture and use thereof

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1480290
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Disclosed herein is a solar reactor comprising a reactor member; an aperture for receiving solar radiation, the aperture being disposed in a plane on a wall of the reactor member, where the plane is oriented at any angle other than parallel relative to the centerline of the reactor member; a plurality of absorber tubes, wherein the absorber tubes are oriented such that their respective centerlines are at an angle other than 90.degree. relative to the centerline of the reactor member; and wherein the aperture has a hydraulic diameter that is from 0.2 to 4 times a hydraulic diameter of at least one absorber tube in the plurality of absorber tubes; and a reactive material, the reactive material being disposed in the plurality of absorber tubes.
Research Organization:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AR0000184
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, FL)
Patent Number(s):
10,072,224
Application Number:
14/896,993
OSTI ID:
1480290
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

Hydrogen production from solar thermal dissociation of natural gas: development of a 10kW solar chemical reactor prototype journal September 2009
High-Temperature Solar Methane Dissociation in a Multitubular Cavity-Type Reactor in the Temperature Range 1823−2073 K journal May 2009
A novel beam-down, gravity-fed, solar thermochemical receiver/reactor for direct solid particle decomposition: Design, modeling, and experimentation journal November 2012
Co-production of hydrogen and carbon black from solar thermal methane splitting in a tubular reactor prototype journal April 2011
Rapid High Temperature Solar Thermal Biomass Gasification in a Prototype Cavity Reactor
  • Lichty, Paul; Perkins, Christopher; Woodruff, Bryan
  • ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences, 14 p. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2009-90338
conference January 2009
Multitube Rotary Kiln for the Industrial Solar Production of Lime journal January 2005
Rapid High Temperature Solar Thermal Biomass Gasification in a Prototype Cavity Reactor journal January 2010
High-Temperature Solar Chemical Reactors For Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas Cracking journal May 2008

Similar Records

Related Subjects