TY  - CHAP
A1  - Latzke, Markus
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Kronhardt, Valentina
A1  - Rendón, Carlos
A1  - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph
T1  - Comparison of Potential Sites in China for Erecting a Hybrid Solar Tower Power Plant with Air Receiver
T2  - Energy Procedia
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.03.142
SN  - 1876-6102
N1  - International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2014, Beijing, China
SP  - 1327
EP  - 1334
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rendon, Carlos
A1  - Dieckmann, Simon
A1  - Weidle, Mathias
A1  - Dersch, Jürgen
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Polklas, Thomas
A1  - Kuschel, Marcus
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Retrofitting of existing parabolic trough collector power plants with molten salt tower systems
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5067030
VL  - 2033
IS  - 1
SP  - 030014-1
EP  - 030014-8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mahdi, Zahra
A1  - Rendón, Carlos
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Novel concept for indirect solar-heated methane reforming
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117694
SN  - 0094-243X
VL  - 2126
SP  - 180014-1
EP  - 180014-7
PB  - AIP Publishing
CY  - Melville, NY
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rendon, Carlos
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Ghiasi, Mona
A1  - Schmitz, Pascal
A1  - Bohang, Fakhri
A1  - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico
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  -