Methane Pyrolysis in a Liquid Metal Bubble Column Reactor Using a bubble column reactor at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, the Liquid Metal Laboratory team is working on producing hydrogen from methane, the cheapest method, but without CO2 emissions – the problem with the cheapest method. The main product, besides hydrogen, is carbon, which, like green …
Solar hydrogen testing begins at CSIRO conference tour site
Solar hydrogen testing has begun at the CSIRO test site in Australia. The concentrated solar falling particle receiver seen here reaches the high temperatures used for solar thermochemistry. SolarPACES Conference 2023 will include a site tour here. IMAGE@Wil Gardner, CSIRO Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by …
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How can Synhelion’s solar receiver achieve such high temperatures?
How can Synhelion’s solar receiver reach such high temperatures? Synhelion’s solar receiver achieves a temperature of 1,500°C and higher. That’s unprecedented. Even the Gen3 particle-based solar receiver being pilot-scale tested now at Sandia – and the DLR CentRec receiver licensed to Heliogen – operate at the (relatively!) lower temperature of 1,000°C. One of Synhelion’s solar …
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Published – Technical, economic and environmental analysis of solar thermochemical production of drop-in fuels
Fig. 5. Effect of the location on the minimum fuel selling price (€2020) with cost-built up for one GJ of jet fuel produced via the solar thermochemical pathway. 25 years lifetime. Abstract: This study analyzes the technical performance, costs and life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the production of various fuels using air-captured water and …
Tour Gen-3 solar receivers at the 29th SolarPACES Conference in October
29th SolarPACES Conference 2023 Technical Tour Australia Tour the pilot-scale sodium receiver and falling curtain particle receiver in Australia During the 29th SolarPACES Conference, a day trip from Sydney will take you on a Technical Tour of the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre at Newcastle, where the working of two gen-3 receivers will be demonstrated: …
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Raise Investment and R&D to Reach Green Hydrogen Goal by 2050
IEA report calls for the development of national hydrogen strategies and roadmaps, new incentives for low-carbon hydrogen, and new certification requirements alongside increased research and infrastructure spending. Direct heat solar thermochemistry using CST is a promising route to lower cost of green hydrogen production IMAGE@Heliogen Global electrolyzer capacity for producing hydrogen could reach up to …
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