Design of a lab-scale rotary cavity-type solar reactor for continuous thermal dissociation of volatile oxides under reduced pressure

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 0210061-0210067

  Chambon, Marc ^a   Abanades, Stéphane ^a   Flamant, Gilles ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC FILTERS; CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE; DILUTION RATIO; DISSOCIATION YIELD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NEUTRAL GAS; NEUTRAL GAS FLOW; OXIDE POWDER; REACTION YIELDS; REDUCED PRESSURE; ROTARY CAVITY; SOLAR REACTORS; SOLAR THERMAL; THERMAL DISSOCIATION; WEIGHT CONTENT; ZN NANOPARTICLES; ZNO;

REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SUN; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

DISSOCIATION;

EID: 77955187287     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001147     Document Type: Article

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