Astronomy:HYDROSOL
HYDROSOL (short for Solar hydrogen via water splitting in advanced monolithic reactors for future solar power plants) is a series of European Union funded projects for the promotion of renewable energy. Its aim is the production of hydrogen using concentrated solar power with a specific thermochemical cycle.
History
The Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP5) project HYDROSOL started in December 2002 with a budget of €2.6 million. A pilot-scale solar reactor was designed,[1] built and operated at the German Aerospace Center[2] with a solar furnace facility in Cologne (Germany), continuously producing "solar hydrogen".[3]
The FP6 HYDROSOL II is a pilot reactor of 100 kW scale for solar thermochemical hydrogen production at the Plataforma Solar de Almería in Spain , which started in November 2005 and has been in operation since 2008.[4][5]
The FP7 HYDROSOL-3D project,[6] started on January 1, 2010 and ran until January 1, 2013.[7] The Hydrosol series projects were conceived and coordinated by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas and Ciemat. In 2006, the Hydrosol project was awarded the Descartes Prize by the European Commission for Collaborative Scientific Research.[8]
In early 2017, the Synlight project at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) created an artificial sun in the lab.[9][10][11] In an effort to better optimise solar hydrogen production at scale, the electrically powered 'sun' is able to provide focussed temperatures approaching 3,000°C, far above the temperatures currently reached by commercial concentrated solar power stations.
See also
- Cerium(IV) oxide-cerium(III) oxide cycle
- Water splitting
References
- ↑ Kostoglou, M.; Lekkos, C.P.; Konstandopoulos, A.G. (2011). "On mathematical modeling of solar hydrogen production in monolithic reactors". Computers & Chemical Engineering 35 (9): 1915. doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2011.03.019.
- ↑ "Solar Energy for Chemical Processes". Institute of Solar Research. http://www.dlr.de/sf/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-7159/11923_read-28158/.
- ↑ Pregger, Thomas; Graf, Daniela; Krewitt, Wolfram; Sattler, Christian; Roeb, Martin; Möller, Stephan (2009). "Prospects of solar thermal hydrogen production processes". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 34 (10): 4256. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.03.025.
- ↑ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Solar Hydrogen via Water Splitting in Advanced Monolithic Reactors for Future Solar Power plants". europa.eu. http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP6_PROJ&ACTION=D&RCN=75098&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=1161712766968.
- ↑ "DLR Portal - DLR". dlr.de. http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1/86_read-14380/.
- ↑ Hydrosol-3D, a 3rd Generation Design Study 2010
- ↑ Hydrosol-3D-Scale up of thermochemical hydrogen production in a solar monolithic reactor
- ↑ "Descartes Prize for Research". http://www.stobbe.com/research/hydrogen/EU_ducument.pdf.
- ↑ "World's largest artificial Sun rises in Germany". http://newatlas.com/dlr-artificial-sun/48579/.
- ↑ Devlin, Hannah (23 March 2017). "Let there be light: Germans switch on 'largest artificial sun'". https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/23/worlds-largest-artificial-sun-german-scientists-activate-synlight.
- ↑ "Hydrogen Production: Thermochemical Water Splitting". Department of Energy. http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-thermochemical-water-splitting.
External links
- Solar hydrogen via water splitting in advanced monolithic reactors for future solar power plants
- Hydrosol-3D
- Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory
 |
