Solar hydrogen production integrating low-grade solar thermal energy and methanol steam reforming

Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 0126011-01260110

  Hong, Hui ^a   Liu, Qibin ^a,b   Jin, Hongguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Methanol steam reforming; Middle and low temperature solar thermal energies; Solar thermochemical hydrogen production

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENERGY; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ENERGY LEVEL; HYDROGEN YIELDS; LOW TEMPERATURES; METHANE REFORMING; METHANOL DECOMPOSITION; METHANOL STEAM REFORMING; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; SOLAR FLUX; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY; SOLAR THERMO-CHEMICAL HYDROGEN; STEAM REFORMING;

DECOMPOSITION; GAS PRODUCERS; LOW TEMPERATURE PRODUCTION; METHANE; METHANOL; REACTION KINETICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STEAM; STEAM ENGINEERING; THERMAL ENERGY;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 77955823503     PISSN: 01950738     EISSN: 15288994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3068336     Document Type: Article

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