Radiative heat transfer analysis of a directly irradiated cavity-type solar thermochemical reactor by Monte-Carlo ray tracing

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Villafan Vidales H I ^a   Abanades, S ^b   Arancibia Bulnes, C A ^a   Riveros Rosas, D ^a   Romero Paredes, H ^c   Espinosa Paredes, G ^c   Estrada, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; CAVITY ASPECT RATIO; CAVITY WALL; CERAMIC CAVITIES; DEVELOPED MODEL; ENDOTHERMIC CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FLUX DENSITIES; INNER CAVITIES; LATERAL WALLS; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; REACTIVE PARTICLES; REACTOR DESIGNS; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLAR REACTORS; THERMAL REDUCTION; THERMO-CHEMICAL REACTOR; ZNO AND SNO;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ASPECT RATIO; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REACTOR OPERATION; ZINC OXIDE;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 84865765906     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4747825     Document Type: Article

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