Thermochemical conversion of solar energy by steam reforming of methane

Solar thermal catalytic reforming of natural gas: a review on chemistry, catalysis and system design

“…Several types of directly-irradiated solar thermal reformers have been developed and demonstrated in solar tests. [114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133] 4.1.1. Indirect MSTR: sodium heat pipe reformer.…”

Solar steam reforming of natural gas integrated with a gas turbine power plant: Economic assessment

“…Moreover, the same solar radiation distribution can be maintained on the reactor surface along the tube, and a good matching of the provided solar thermal energy to that of the chemical reaction demand can be obtained. On the other hand, packed bed catalysts were also tested for MSR application (De Maria et al, 1986;Edwards et al, 2000), even if integrated with solar tower CSP plant. In the study by De Maria et al a cavity receiver reactor was used, while in Edwards et al a solar tubular reformer was tested, which results quite similar to the application described in the paper.…”

Redox reforming based, integrated solar-natural gas plants: Reforming and thermodynamic cycle efficiency

“…There has been much work on the solar reformer system, but less so on the hybrid system analyses. Moreover, while there have been many studies on steam/dry reformers (either system level or specific reformer component studies) [11,12,13,14,15,16,3,17], there has not been as much work done on redox reformers. For specifically redox type reformers, there has been an experimental study on a solar reformer combines Zn production methane reforming [18].…”