Thermal dissociation of compressed ZnO and SnO2 powders in a moving-front solar thermochemical reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2264-2273

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

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Kinetics; Solar reactor; Thermochemical cycles; Tin oxide; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ABLATION REGIME; CERAMIC CAVITIES; CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASS FRACTION; NANO POWDERS; OXIDE POWDER; REACTION FRONT; REACTOR DESIGNS; REDUCED PRESSURE; SOLAR REACTORS; THERMAL DISSOCIATION; THERMO-CHEMICAL REACTOR; THERMOCHEMICAL CYCLES; THERMOCHEMICAL WATER-SPLITTING CYCLE; ZNO; ZNO AND SNO; ZNO SURFACE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; POWDERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

DISSOCIATION;

EID: 78650358283     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12432     Document Type: Article

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