Solar fuels are made using thermochemistry driven by direct heat from the sun In this process, solar thermal energy provides the heat for thermochemical reactions to produce new compounds such as green hydrogen or sustainable aviation fuel. Highly concentrated solar...
Solar Energy Technologies Office The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced its intent to fund the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award up to $30 million for innovative projects...
News Source: RenewEconomy The developers of a solar thermal powered methanol production facility that will supply green fuel for shipping and aviation have bedded down $A40 million in funding deals that will underpin construction of the Port Augusta plant, known as...
How a breakthrough solar thermochemistry process that uses direct solar heat to cycle between sulphur and sulphuric acid would generate "virtually unlimited" seasonal thermal energy storage Researchers are now refining a groundbreaking long-duration thermal energy...
As a new industry, lithium-ion battery recycling with pyrolysis could be heated by concentrated solar energy from the start One of the hurdles for concentrated solar thermal energy to decarbonize heat-based industrial processes is that most of these industries, from...
The system as a whole resembles a train of box-shaped reactors running on a circular track. In practice, this track would be set around the solar thermal source. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of...
In solar reactors for making solar fuels at high temperatures, ceria's behavior when heated makes it state-of-the-art for unlocking the thermochemistry involved. (How solar fuels are made). But its structure lacks “intelligent design.” So a precisely controlled design...
The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this year's Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Dr. Eduardo Zarza from the Spanish research...
Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by iron-ore billionaire Andrew Forrest to deliver a cheaper and more scalable way to produce the zero emissions fuel using concentrated sunlight.
Synhelion's solar receiver achieves a temperature of 1,500°C and higher. That's unprecedented. Even the Gen3 particle-based solar receiver being pilot-scale tested now at Sandia - and the DLR CentRec receiver licensed to Heliogen - operate at the (relatively!) lower...
Solar hydrogen is a component of the thermochemical solar fuels that Synhelion is developing commercially, such as aviation fuel The solar thermal green hydrogen technology beginning to be commercialized by Synhelion has now received a nod from the US DOE with funding...
Heat-recovery ideas for solar reactors existed as theories “but not to actually go to the lab, build a device and try to make it work.”
Adding nickel to ceria can yield solar syngas at lower temperatures - at just 700°C Solar thermochemistry researchers at the University of Florida and Synhelion tried a new way to generate syngas, the precursor to hydrocarbon fuels like jet fuel or diesel. Solar...
Goal: ensure the quartz window never exceeds 300°C, despite solar receiver temperatures above 1500°C – keeping thermal efficiency over 50%
A “hot solar” tower fuel plant for thermochemical aviation fuel from H2O + CO2 is finally getting news coverage. What was your breakthrough?
Alumina calcination is one industrial process that could be decarbonized using a 1000°C “hot solar” process
By making solar hydrogen as an industrial service for copper mining the scale is established for mass production
Biomass gasification using steam and oxygen is an already mature technology for extracting hydrogen, which requires heat at above 700°C. To generate the heat for gasification, traditionally, some of the biomass itself is burnt. But this combustion emits several...
A pair of policy researchers at Potsdam University’s Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany have a suggestion for policy to advance high temperature Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) technologies. Today’s commercially operating Concentrated Solar...
At the 101st Ex-Co meeting held October 4th, 2021, PROMES-CNRS Research Director Gilles Flamant was elected as new Chair of the SolarPACES Executive Committee for the next 4-year term. Flamant is an internationally recognized expert in solar thermochemistry who holds...
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