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Title: Solar thermal aerosol flow reaction process

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1175292

The present invention provides an environmentally beneficial process using concentrated sunlight to heat radiation absorbing particles to carry out highly endothermic gas phase chemical reactions ultimately resulting in the production of hydrogen or hydrogen synthesis gases.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-99GO10337
Assignee:
Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, MO)
Patent Number(s):
6,872,378
Application Number:
10/239,706
OSTI ID:
1175292
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Carbon dioxide reforming of methane in a solar volumetric receiver/reactor: the CAESAR project journal December 1991

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