The SUN-to-LIQUID project aims to demonstrate a pre-commercial scale liquid solar fuels production facility in Mostoles, Spain. Development of the solar reactor and power delivery technology are critical to the success of the project. Ultra-modular heliostats are densely packed in front of a 15 m high solar tower and can deliver concentrated solar radiation in excess of 3,000 kW/m2. Two solar receiver vessels are install on the tower; the east installation contains a water calorimeter, and the west installation contains the solar reactor, comprised primarily of the ceria reticulated porous ceramic (RPC) structures. The ceria RPC reactor has been successfully scaled up from 4 kW and commissioning tests were performed in a high flux solar simulator. In the solar tower, a flux measurement system combined with a water calorimeter are used to calibrate the method to determine solar power entering the aperture of the solar reactor. Here we report on progress in the commissioning of the two primary sub-systems of the facility, the heliostat field and the solar reactor.
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25 July 2019
SolarPACES 2018: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
2–5 October 2018
Casablanca, Morocco
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July 25 2019
Liquid fuels from concentrated sunlight: An overview on development and integration of a 50 kW solar thermochemical reactor and high concentration solar field for the SUN-to-LIQUID project Free
Erik Koepf;
Erik Koepf
a)
1
ETH Zurich, Dept. of Mech. and Process Engineering
, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Stefan Zoller;
Stefan Zoller
1
ETH Zurich, Dept. of Mech. and Process Engineering
, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Salvador Luque;
Salvador Luque
2
IMDEA Energy Institute
, Avda. Ramón de la Sagra 3, E-28935 Móstoles, Spain
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Martin Thelen;
Martin Thelen
3
Institute of Solar Research, German Aerospace Center
, 51147 Köln-Porz, Germany
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Stefan Brendelberger;
Stefan Brendelberger
3
Institute of Solar Research, German Aerospace Center
, 51147 Köln-Porz, Germany
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José González-Aguilar;
José González-Aguilar
2
IMDEA Energy Institute
, Avda. Ramón de la Sagra 3, E-28935 Móstoles, Spain
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Manuel Romero;
Manuel Romero
2
IMDEA Energy Institute
, Avda. Ramón de la Sagra 3, E-28935 Móstoles, Spain
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Aldo Steinfeld
Aldo Steinfeld
1
ETH Zurich, Dept. of Mech. and Process Engineering
, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Erik Koepf
1,a)
Stefan Zoller
1
Salvador Luque
2
Martin Thelen
3
Stefan Brendelberger
3
José González-Aguilar
2
Manuel Romero
2
Aldo Steinfeld
1
1
ETH Zurich, Dept. of Mech. and Process Engineering
, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
2
IMDEA Energy Institute
, Avda. Ramón de la Sagra 3, E-28935 Móstoles, Spain
3
Institute of Solar Research, German Aerospace Center
, 51147 Köln-Porz, Germany
a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
AIP Conf. Proc. 2126, 180012 (2019)
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Erik Koepf, Stefan Zoller, Salvador Luque, Martin Thelen, Stefan Brendelberger, José González-Aguilar, Manuel Romero, Aldo Steinfeld; Liquid fuels from concentrated sunlight: An overview on development and integration of a 50 kW solar thermochemical reactor and high concentration solar field for the SUN-to-LIQUID project. AIP Conf. Proc. 25 July 2019; 2126 (1): 180012. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117692
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