2017 Annual Meeting

Session: Symposium on Solar Power and Chemical Systems in Honor of Prof. Edward A. Fletcher II

In Honor of Professor Edward Fletcher.

Chair

Nick AuYeung, Oregon State University

Co-Chairs

Mahesh Venkataraman, The Australian National University
Christopher L. Muhich, University of Colorado at Boulder

Presentations

12:30 PM

(389a) Keynote - Two-step Solarthermal Water Splitting – The Path Forward
Alan Weimer

01:00 PM

(389b) Syngas Production Via Solar Chemical-Looping Reformation of Methane in a Fixed-Bed Reactor
Jesse R. Fosheim, Brandon J. Hathaway, Jane H. Davidson

01:20 PM

(389c) Solar Gasification in a Molten Salt Reactor for Continuous Production of Syngas
Jane H. Davidson, Brandon J. Hathaway, Nathaniel Lewin

01:40 PM

(780f) An Evaluation of Feedback and Model Predictive Control for the Rejection of Weather Transients in Renewable High-Temperature Solar Thermal Chemical Processing on a Novel Hybrid Solar-Electric Reactor
Scott Rowe, Illias Hischier, Boris Chubukov, Mark Wallace, David E. Clough, Alan Weimer

02:00 PM

(389e) Solar Hybrid Photo-Thermochemical Sulfur-Ammonia Water-Splitting Cycle: Photocatalyst, Thermodynamics and Plant Analysis
Konstantinos Kakosimos, Agni E. Kalyva, Ekaterini Vagia, Abdur Rahman Shazed, Nazim Muradov, Ali T-Raissi, Arun Srinivasa, Rashid Al-Heidous

02:20 PM

(389f) On the Potential for Enhancement of Solar Thermochemical Synthesis Processes By Nonequilibrium Plasma
Juan Trelles, Dassou Nagassou, Sina Mohsenian, Rasool Elahi

02:40 PM

(389g) Direct Two Step Solar Metallothermic and Electrolytic Production of Rare Earth Elements from Oxides
Mahesh Venkataraman, Peter Kreider, Wojciech Lipinski