TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frantz, Cathy
A1  - Binder, Matthias
A1  - Busch, Konrad
A1  - Ebert, Miriam
A1  - Heinrich, Andreas
A1  - Kaczmarkiewicz, Nadine
A1  - Schlögl-Knothe, Bärbel
A1  - Kunze, Tobias
A1  - Schuhbauer, Christian
A1  - Stetka, Markus
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Spiegel, Michael
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Bauer, Thomas
A1  - Bonk, Alexander
A1  - Eisen, Stefan
A1  - Funck, Bernhard
T1  - Basic Engineering of a High Performance Molten Salt Tower Receiver System
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
N2  - The production of dispatchable renewable energy will be one of the most important key factors of the future energy supply. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants operated with molten salt as heat transfer and storage media are one opportunity to meet this challenge. Due to the high concentration factor of the solar tower technology the maximum process temperature can be further increased which ultimately decreases the levelized costs of electricity of the technology (LCOE). The development of an improved tubular molten salt receiver for the next generation of molten salt solar tower plants is the aim of this work. The receiver is designed for a receiver outlet temperature up to 600 °C. Together with a complete molten salt system, the receiver will be integrated into the Multi-Focus-Tower (MFT) in Jülich (Germany). The paper describes the basic engineering of the receiver, the molten salt tower system and a laboratory corrosion setup.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085895
N1  - SOLARPACES 2020: 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, 28 September – 2 October 2020, Freiburg, Germany
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rendon, Carlos
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Ghiasi, Mona
A1  - Schmitz, Pascal
A1  - Bohang, Fakhri
A1  - Chico Caminos, Ricardo Alexander
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Modeling and upscaling of a pilot bayonettube reactor for indirect solar mixed methane reforming
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
N2  - A 16.77 kW thermal power bayonet-tube reactor for the mixed reforming of methane using solar energy has been designed and modeled. A test bench for the experimental tests has been installed at the Synlight facility in Juelich, Germany and has just been commissioned. This paper presents the solar-heated reactor design for a combined steam and dry reforming as well as a scaled-up process simulation of a solar reforming plant for methanol production. Solar power towers are capable of providing large amounts of heat to drive high-endothermic reactions, and their integration with thermochemical processes shows a promising future. In the designed bayonet-tube reactor, the conventional burner arrangement for the combustion of natural gas has been substituted by a continuous 930 °C hot air stream, provided by means of a solar heated air receiver, a ceramic thermal storage and an auxiliary firing system. Inside the solar-heated reactor, the heat is transferred by means of convective mechanism mainly; instead of radiation mechanism as typically prevailing in fossil-based industrial reforming processes. A scaled-up solar reforming plant of 50.5 MWth was designed and simulated in Dymola® and AspenPlus®. In comparison to a fossil-based industrial reforming process of the same thermal capacity, a solar reforming plant with thermal storage promises a reduction up to 57 % of annual natural gas consumption in regions with annual DNI-value of 2349 kWh/m2. The benchmark solar reforming plant contributes to a CO2 avoidance of approx. 79 kilotons per year. This facility can produce a nominal output of 734.4 t of synthesis gas and out of this 530 t of methanol a day.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0029974
N1  - SOLARPACES 2019: International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, 1–4 October 2019, Daegu, South Korea
IS  - 2303
SP  - 170012-1
EP  - 170012-9
ER  -