Fabrication and testing of CONTISOL: A new receiver-reactor for day and night solar thermochemistry

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-57

  Lapp, Justin L ^a   Lange, Matthias ^a   Rieping, René ^a   de Oliveira, Lamark ^a   Roeb, Martin ^a   Sattler, Christian ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF GASES; GASES; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; REFORMING REACTIONS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ABSORBER TEMPERATURES; CHEMICAL PROCESSING; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS; SOLAR THERMOCHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMO CHEMICAL PROCESS;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 85026909327     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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