Continuous on-sun solar thermochemical hydrogen production via an isothermal redox cycle
Abstract
Solar thermochemical hydrogen production from water is a path towards a carbon-free sustainable hydrogen economy. Here, isothermal on-sun hydrogen production is demonstrated using active iron aluminate (hercynite) particles contained in dual fluidized bed reactors. The two fluidized beds were held in a single cavity solar receiver that was heated with a 10 kW high flux solar furnace. During 8 h of on-sun testing, 5.3 L of H2 were generated with an average productivity of 597 umol H2/g using an intermittent process with optimized redox cycle times. Redox cycling was performed isothermally and continuously with equivalent oxidation and reduction times producing 547 umol H2/g over two cycles. These results show excellent agreement with the H2 production measured in an 800X scaled-down electrically heated laboratory stagnation flow reactor and surpass on-sun H2 production of current benchmark materials. The effect of environmental variability on the incident solar radiation and hydrogen production is evaluated during on-sun testing. Finally, a discussion of the important factors for scalability of the process to commercial applications is provided, highlighting the importance of robust containment and active materials. This work links current materials research and development with commercial implementation in an on-sun process and demonstrates the viability of solarmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1518588
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1564291
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5500-73987
Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 249; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 08 HYDROGEN; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; hydrogen; solar; isothermal redox; thermochemistry
Citation Formats
Hoskins, Amanda L., Millican, Samantha L., Czernik, Caitlin E., Alshankiti, Ibraheam, Netter, Judy C., Wendelin, Timothy J., Musgrave, Charles B., and Weimer, Alan W. Continuous on-sun solar thermochemical hydrogen production via an isothermal redox cycle. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.169.
Hoskins, Amanda L., Millican, Samantha L., Czernik, Caitlin E., Alshankiti, Ibraheam, Netter, Judy C., Wendelin, Timothy J., Musgrave, Charles B., & Weimer, Alan W. Continuous on-sun solar thermochemical hydrogen production via an isothermal redox cycle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.169
Hoskins, Amanda L., Millican, Samantha L., Czernik, Caitlin E., Alshankiti, Ibraheam, Netter, Judy C., Wendelin, Timothy J., Musgrave, Charles B., and Weimer, Alan W. Thu .
"Continuous on-sun solar thermochemical hydrogen production via an isothermal redox cycle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.169. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1518588.
@article{osti_1518588,
title = {Continuous on-sun solar thermochemical hydrogen production via an isothermal redox cycle},
author = {Hoskins, Amanda L. and Millican, Samantha L. and Czernik, Caitlin E. and Alshankiti, Ibraheam and Netter, Judy C. and Wendelin, Timothy J. and Musgrave, Charles B. and Weimer, Alan W.},
abstractNote = {Solar thermochemical hydrogen production from water is a path towards a carbon-free sustainable hydrogen economy. Here, isothermal on-sun hydrogen production is demonstrated using active iron aluminate (hercynite) particles contained in dual fluidized bed reactors. The two fluidized beds were held in a single cavity solar receiver that was heated with a 10 kW high flux solar furnace. During 8 h of on-sun testing, 5.3 L of H2 were generated with an average productivity of 597 umol H2/g using an intermittent process with optimized redox cycle times. Redox cycling was performed isothermally and continuously with equivalent oxidation and reduction times producing 547 umol H2/g over two cycles. These results show excellent agreement with the H2 production measured in an 800X scaled-down electrically heated laboratory stagnation flow reactor and surpass on-sun H2 production of current benchmark materials. The effect of environmental variability on the incident solar radiation and hydrogen production is evaluated during on-sun testing. Finally, a discussion of the important factors for scalability of the process to commercial applications is provided, highlighting the importance of robust containment and active materials. This work links current materials research and development with commercial implementation in an on-sun process and demonstrates the viability of solar thermochemical hydrogen production that leverages continuous isothermal redox cycling.},
doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.169},
journal = {Applied Energy},
number = C,
volume = 249,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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