Simulation of a volumetric solar receiver-reactor for hydrogen producing thermochemical cycles

Proceedings of the ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability 2009, ES2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 285-294

  Noglik, Adam ^a   Roeb, Martin ^a   Sattler, Christian ^a   Pitz Paal, Robert ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concentrated solar radiation; Reactor modeling; Solar chemistry; Solar energy; Sulfur iodine cycle; Sulfuric acid decomposition

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; REACTOR MODELING; SOLAR CHEMISTRY; SULFUR-IODINE CYCLES; SULFURIC ACID DECOMPOSITION;

ACIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTS; GAS ABSORPTION; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATINUM; REACTION KINETICS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SULFUR; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFURIC ACID; SUN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77953789784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2009-90261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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