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Researcher Pioneers Solar to Heat Crucial Steel Component

Posted onDecember 13, 2017December 14, 2017AuthorSusan Kraemer13 Comments

Mintek pyrometallurgy engineer Lina Hockaday is trying a highly focused solar reactor to replace the fossil energy used as part of the steelmaking process Read More …

Scientist Devises a Solar Reactor to Make Water and Oxygen from Moon Rocks

Posted onOctober 26, 2017October 26, 2017AuthorSusan Kraemer22 Comments

solar reactor to make water and oxygen on the moon

An aerospace engineer has built a machine to make water and oxygen from the lunar regolith, powered by solar energy. Thorsten Denk’s paper Design and Test of a Concentrated Solar Powered Fluidized Bed Reactor for Ilmenite Reduction was presented at the 23rd Annual SolarPACES Conference in Chile. (Thorsten Denk – Presentation (pdf) Working over a ten year […]