A computational fluid dynamics study on the effect of carbon particle seeding for the improvement of solar reactor performance

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ozalp, Nesrin ^a   Kanjirakat, Anoop ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

carbon seeding; computational flow dynamics; hydrogen; solar cracking; solar reactor

Indexed keywords

CARBON PARTICLE; CO-PRODUCTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLOW DYNAMICS; DECOMPOSITION REACTION; FLOW REACTORS; LAGRANGIAN; NUCLEATION SITES; PARTICLE LOADING; POINT LOCATION; SOLAR CRACKING; SOLAR REACTORS; ZERO EMISSION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN; SEED; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 79952075146     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002173     Document Type: Article

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