Thermal Reduction of Iron Oxide under Reduced Pressure and Implications on Thermal Conversion Efficiency for Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 6793-6803

  Singh, Abhishek K ^a   Auyeung, Nicholas J ^b   Randhir, Kelvin ^a   Mishra, Rishi ^a   Allen, Kyle M ^a   Petrasch, Jörg ^c   Klausner, James F ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

^c FH Vorarlberg ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FUELS; INERT GASES; IRON; METALS; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PUMPS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; VACUUM PUMPS; ZIRCONIA;

EXERGETIC EFFICIENCY; HEAT RECUPERATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; LOW PARTIAL PRESSURES; OXYGEN SEPARATION; SYSTEM THERMODYNAMICS; THERMAL REDUCTION; WATER SPLITTING CYCLES;

IRON OXIDES;

EID: 84936095488     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie504402x     Document Type: Article

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