Non-catalytic ethane cracking using concentrated solar energy

Homojunction and defect synergy-mediated electron–hole separation for solar-driven mesoporous rutile/anatase TiO2 microsphere photocatalysts

“…[4][5][6][7][8] According to the literature, solar energy has attracted widespread attention, possessing the advantages of being clean, non-polluting, widely distributed, and abundant in reserves. [9][10][11][12] However, solar energy is difficult to directly industrialize because it is not continuous and has unstable characteristics. Fortunately, converting solar energy into chemical energy can compensate for this problem, and it has high-energy-density, facilitating the virtues of energy storage and transportation.…”

Synthesizing High‐Volume Chemicals from CO2 without Direct H2 Input

“…In the context of CCU, the use of renewable energy heating, in the form of solar thermal heating or resistive heating by renewable electricity, could further increase the CO 2 abatement potential of the processes discussed above. Indeed, the concepts of solar membrane reactor, [177,201] solar chemical looping reactor, [202][203][204][205][206] and solar fixed-bed reactor [207][208][209] have been adopted by many as the basis for achieving zero-emission dehydrogenation [210] and syngas production. [207,208] Owing to the high endothermicity, solar thermal dry reforming is also regarded as a form of solar energy storage, in which CO 2 acts as a thermochemical storage medium.…”