Liquid fuels from concentrated sunlight: An overview on development and integration of a 50 kW solar thermochemical reactor and high concentration solar field for the SUN-to-LIQUID project
| Autor: | Erik Koepf, Stefan Zoller, Salvador Luque, Martin Thelen, Manuel Romero, Stefan Brendelberger, Aldo Steinfeld, José Gonzalez-Aguilar |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Richter, Christoph |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sunlight
Heliostat Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Aperture 020209 energy Nuclear engineering Flux 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 7. Clean energy Calorimeter Physics::Space Physics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Environmental science Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar simulator Physics::Chemical Physics 0210 nano-technology business Tower Solar power |
| Zdroj: | AIP Conference Proceedings, 2126 (1) SolarPACES 2018: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Research Collection SOLARPACES 2018: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems |
| ISSN: | 0094-243X |
| Popis: | The SUN-to-LIQUID project aims to demonstrate a pre-commercial scale liquid solar fuels production facility in Mostoles, Spain. Development of the solar reactor and power delivery technology are critical to the success of the project. Ultra-modular heliostats are densely packed in front of a 15 m high solar tower and can deliver concentrated solar radiation in excess of 3,000 kW/m2. Two solar receiver vessels are install on the tower; the east installation contains a water calorimeter, and the west installation contains the solar reactor, comprised primarily of the ceria reticulated porous ceramic (RPC) structures. The ceria RPC reactor has been successfully scaled up from 4 kW and commissioning tests were performed in a high flux solar simulator. In the solar tower, a flux measurement system combined with a water calorimeter are used to calibrate the method to determine solar power entering the aperture of the solar reactor. Here we report on progress in the commissioning of the two primary sub-systems of the facility, the heliostat field and the solar reactor. |
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