Preventing conglomeration of reduced fine powder in solar thermochemical redox cycles based on metals with low melting and high boiling points

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 5, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 829-837

  Vishnevetsky, Irina ^a   Epstein, Michael ^a   Feldman, Yishay ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CHARCOAL; DEPOSITION; DROPS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROLYSIS; POWDER METALS; REDOX REACTIONS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIN DIOXIDE; TIN OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

% REDUCTIONS; FINE POWDERS; LOW MELTING; LOW MELTING POINT; LOW VAPOR PRESSURES; LOW-HIGH; METAL DROPS; MICRODROPS; REDOX CYCLES; THERMOCHEMICALS;

METALS;

EID: 84881395708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2010-38097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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