EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A MIDDLE-AND-LOW TEMPERATURE SOLAR RECEIVER/REACTOR PROTOTYPE
This paper designed and manufactured a 5-kW middle-and-low temperature solar receiver/reactor prototype at around 200oC.300oC, representing the development of a new kind of solar thermochemical technology. A representative experiment of solar-driven methanol decomposition was carried out. A specific equation of interrelationships among solar radiation, the kinetics of the middle-and-low temperature solar thermochemical reaction, and the diameter of the reactor tube is derived. The conversion of methanol decomposition yielded up to 50％.95％ and the efficiency of solar thermal energy converted into chemical energy reached 30％.60％. The experimental results obtained here proves that the novel solar receiver/reactor prototype can provide a promising approach to effectively utilize the middle-and-low temperature solar thermal energy by means of solar thermochemical processes.
Hongguang Jin Jun Sui Hui Hong Qibin Liu Zhifeng Wang
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS P.O.Box 2706 Beijing 100080, China Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS P.O.Box 2703 Beijing 100080, China
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）