Hydrogen production via solar-aided water splitting thermochemical cycles with nickel ferrite: Experiments and modeling

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1213-1225

  Agrafiotis, Christos ^a   Zygogianni, Alexandra ^a   Pagkoura, Chrysoula ^a   Kostoglou, Margaritis ^b   Konstandopoulos, Athanasios G ^a,b  

^a Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nickel ferrite; Solar hydrogen; Thermal reduction; Thermochemical cycles; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

NICKEL FERRITE; SOLAR HYDROGEN; THERMAL REDUCTION; THERMOCHEMICAL CYCLES; WATER SPLITTING;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; RATE CONSTANTS; REDOX REACTIONS; SURFACE REACTIONS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

INSECTIVORA;

EID: 84875369803     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13882     Document Type: Article

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