2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Concentrated Solar for Power Generation and Chemical Processing I

This session covers innovations in concentrated solar thermal technology. Solar thermal is currently experiencing a revival in the research and commercial sector. Presentations will cover fundamentals and applications of concentrated solar energy conversion processes,including analyses of optical concentrators to receivers and reactors to integrated systems.

Chair

Wojciech Lipinski, University of Minnesota

Co-Chairs

Alexander Mitsos, RWTH Aachen University
Alexandre F.T. Yokochi, Oregon State University
Roman Bader, Australian National University

Presentations

12:30 PM

(297a) A Detailed Mechanism of Solar Thermochemical Carbon Dioxide Splitting With CeO2
Darwin Arifin, Anthony H. McDaniel, Alan Weimer

12:55 PM

(297b) Isothermal Water Splitting: A Novel Approach to Efficient H2 Generation Through Solar Thermal Energy
Christopher L. Muhich, Brian W. Evanko, Kayla Weston, Paul Lichty, Xinhua Liang, Charles B. Musgrave, Alan Weimer

01:20 PM

(297c) Transient Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of a Porous Reactive Ceria Structure for Solar Fuel Production Via Thermochemical Redox Cycling
Rohini Bala Chandran, Roman Bader, Wojciech Lipinski

01:45 PM

(297d) A Simple, Indirectly-Irradiated, Windowless Reactor for Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting
Nicholas AuYeung, Benjamin Greek, James Klausner, Rishi Mishra, Brian Martin, Ayyoub Mehdizadeh

02:10 PM

(297e) Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of Solar-Driven Steam-Based Gasification of Biochar
Michael Kruesi, Zoran R. Jovanovic, Andreas Haselbacher, Aldo Steinfeld