SynLight – the world’s largest artificial sun

Wieghardt, Kai; Funken, K.-H.; Dibowski, Gerd; Hoffschmidt, Bernhard; Laaber, Dmitrij; Hilger, Patrick; Eßer, Kai-Peter

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“…According to this plan, the facility shall start its operation with a DLR experiment in the fourth quarter 2016. As announced in [1] the facility shall be open for cooperative research partners from early 2017 onwards.…”

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Engineering and erection of a 300kW high-flux solar simulator

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Laaber²,

Hilger

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AIP Conference Proceedings

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German Aerospace Center (DLR) is currently constructing a new high-flux solar simulator synlight which shall be commissioned in late 2016. The new facility will provide three separately operated experimental spaces with expected radiant powers of about 300kW / 240kW / 240kW respectively. synlight was presented to the public for the first time at SolarPACES 2015 [1]. Its engineering and erection is running according to plan. The current presentation reports about the engineering and the ongoing erection of the novel facility, and gives an outlook on its new level of possibilities for solar testing and qualification. * Predicted values. Values in brackets () exceed the current standard and can be realised with additional effort.

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“…The new facility will provide three separately operated experimental spaces with expected radiant powers of about 300kW / 240kW / 240kW respectively. synlight was presented to the public for the first time at SolarPACES 2015 [1]. Its engineering and erection is running according to plan.…”

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“…This enabled a costeffective design, global sourcing, transparent cost control and finally a larger facility than originally planned. Further information on Synlight's design and its realization is available from earlier conference papers [2] and [3].…”

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Synlight - A new facility for large-scale testing in CSP and solar chemistry

Wieghardt

Laaber

Dohmen

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As of now the worldwide solar research community has a unique new tool: Synlight is a high-flux solar simulator of a new performance category. It bridges the gap between laboratory scale tests and demonstration, and offers large-scale testing opportunities for up to three independently operating test campaigns. Following the commissioning and opening in March, 2017, the facility has been validated recently. The gained results met or exceeded the expectations from simulation and prototype. In particular, solar radiation powers of up to 310kW with a simultaneous peak flux of 12.5MW/m² could be measured.

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“…The largest system is the solar furnace in Odeillo, which is 54 m high and 48 m wide, including 63 heliostats with thermal power capacity of 1 MW and maximum temperature above 3500 °C [7]. Finally, solar simulator devices are developed for research purpose only and deliver illumination approximating natural sunlight [8]. They can be generally categorized into two types: those utilizing a pointing source of simulated solar radiation positioned away from the collector and those having a large area of multiple lamps positioned close to the collector.…”

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An overview of solar decarbonization processes, reacting oxide materials, and thermochemical reactors for hydrogen and syngas production

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2020

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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Solar decarbonization processes are related to the different thermochemical conversion pathways of hydrocarbon feedstocks for solar fuels production using concentrated solar energy as the external source of high-temperature process heat. The main investigated routes aim to convert gaseous and solid feedstocks (methane, coal, biomass…) into hydrogen and syngas via solar cracking/pyrolysis, reforming/gasification, and two-step chemical looping processes using metal oxides as oxygen carriers, further associated with thermochemical H 2 O/CO 2 splitting cycles. They can also be combined with metallurgical processes for production of energy-intensive metals via solar carbothermal reduction of metal oxides.Syngas can be further converted to liquid fuels while the produced metals can be used as energy storage media or commodities. Overall, such solar-driven processes allow for improvements of conversion yields, elimination of fossil fuel or partial feedstock combustion as heat source and associated CO 2 emissions, and storage of intermittent solar energy in storable and dispatchable chemical fuels, thereby outperforming the conventional processes.The different solar thermochemical pathways for hydrogen and syngas production from gaseous and solid carbonaceous feedstocks are presented, along with their possible combination with chemical looping or metallurgical processes. The considered routes encompass the cracking/pyrolysis (producing solid carbon and hydrogen) and the reforming/gasification (producing syngas). They are further extended to chemical looping processes involving redox materials as well as metallurgical processes when metal production is targeted. This review provides a broad overview of the solar decarbonization pathways based on solid or gaseous hydrocarbons for their conversion into clean hydrogen, syngas or metals. The involved metal oxides and oxygen carrier materials as well as the solar reactors developed to operate each decarbonization route are further described.

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SynLight – the world’s largest artificial sun

Cited by 24 publications

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Engineering and erection of a 300kW high-flux solar simulator

Engineering and erection of a 300kW high-flux solar simulator

Synlight - A new facility for large-scale testing in CSP and solar chemistry

An overview of solar decarbonization processes, reacting oxide materials, and thermochemical reactors for hydrogen and syngas production

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