Boron hydrolysis at moderate temperatures: First step to solar fuel cycle for transportation

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0145061-0145065

  Vishnevetsky, Irina ^a   Epstein, Michael ^a   Abu Hamed, Tareq ^a   Karni, Jacob ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boron; Hydrogen for transportation; Hydrolysis; Solar fuel

Indexed keywords

BORON; FLOW RATE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT METALS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POWDER METALS; POWDERS; RATE CONSTANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION; STEAM;

AMORPHOUS BORON POWDER; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CARRIER GAS FLOW RATES; EXPERIMENTAL SET UPS; FUEL CYCLES; HYDROLYSIS REACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS; LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT (LMW); MAGNESIUM OXIDE (MGO); METAL POWDERS; METAL RATIOS; MODERATE TEMPERATURES; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; REACTION ZONE (RZ); REACTOR TEMPERATURES; STEAM PARTIAL PRESSURE; TEST RESULTS; WATER MASS FLOW;

NONMETALS;

EID: 47049118349     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2807215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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