Solar thermochemical reactor and methods of manufacture and use thereof

US10072224B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• University of Florida Research Foundation, INC. · US

Inventors

• James F. Klausner · Gainesville, US
• Joerg Petrasch · Gainesville, US
• Nicholas AuYeung · Gainesville, US
• Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen · Gainesville, US
• Rishi Mishra · Gainesville, US
• Jinchao Lu · Gainesville, US
• David Worthington Hahn · Gainesville, US
• Nikhil Sehgal · Navi Mumbai, IN
• Renwei Mei · Gainesville, US
• Benjamin Greek · Orinda, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 2014
• Grant date: Sep 11, 2018
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/40
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a solar reactor comprising a reactor member; an aperture for receiving solar radiation, the aperture being disposed in a plane on a wall of the reactor member, where the plane is oriented at any angle other than parallel relative to the centerline of the reactor member; a plurality of absorber tubes, wherein the absorber tubes are oriented such that their respective centerlines are at an angle other than 90° relative to the centerline of the reactor member; and wherein the aperture has a hydraulic diameter that is from 0.2 to 4 times a hydraulic diameter of at least one absorber tube in the plurality of absorber tubes; and a reactive material, the reactive material being disposed in the plurality of absorber tubes.