A state of the art assessment of day or night solar thermochemistry at very high temperatures 1,000ºC to 2,000ºC
Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next
read more
Follow
solar thermochemistry
Which is the most efficient way to make solar fuels from methane?
The research team found that a redox process produced higher solar-to-fuel efficiency than steam or dry solar methane reforming with a metal alloy catalyst
Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes
Two teams of solar researchers have developed a novel solar reactor and thermochemical process for making solar hydrogen that can generate in addition carbon black and graphite as well as carbon nanotubes. Working over a six-year period, the teams first developed the...
Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel
Synhelion is developing technology to produce synthetic gas from air and sunlight. This can be processed into fuel that can be burned in standard engines
How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel?
If one “solar refinery” manufactured all the aviation fuel needed for the entire world from CO2+H2O captured from air using solar energy – all in just one site, the solar field would stretch for example, from Paraburdoo to Capricorn in the Western Australian desert
At Synhelion, Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off
A Swiss startup is working on commercializing two routes to solar jet fuel – to market first by 2022, and by 2030, from direct air capture of CO2 and H2O
Here are the Solar Fuels Captured CO2 Emissions Will Make
Source: EurekAlert! The thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from power plants each year doesn't have to go into the atmosphere. Researchers are optimistic that within the next decade we will be able to affordably capture CO2 waste and convert it...
Scientists Test World’s First Solar Fuels Reactor for Night
International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night - because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) and includes thermal energy storage....
Why solar thermochemistry would generate the greenest hydrogen
What part could solar thermochemistry play in building a future hydrogen economy? For an overview, we interviewed a top solar hydrogen expert, Christian Sattler, who holds 18 patents and has authored 158 peer-reviewed papers on the technology. Sattler heads the...
Current Job Openings in CSP Research and on CSP Projects
Thermal Energy Storage Working Group
General Coordination: Esther Rojas, CIEMAT, Spain If you are willing to participate in any of the following Activity Lines, do not hesitate to get in contact with the corresponding coordinator of the activity or with Esther Rojas (general coordinator) Objective...
Australia
Latest in Development: 2023 Vast Solar 30 MW CST (solar fuels production) Latest Online: 2016 Sundrop Farms 36 MW CST: SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on this CSP project The Sundrop project uses tower CSP for onsite greenhouse agricultural production...
About SolarPACES
SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) SolarPACES is one of several Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCP) organized in a framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA). It operates as an international network of stakeholders, mostly research...
Latest In:
CSP News & Analysis
- Researchers propose faster carbon sequestration in mining waste using solar
- Experts show different metal reduces thermal energy storage tank failures
- A new common language to speed solar hydrogen research
- Heat trap demonstrated in quartz at over 1,000°C for solar receivers
- CSP experts launch SolStor Energy: long-duration storage for the US
- Valparaiso University undergrads demonstrate multi-year thermochemical energy storage
- Solar engineering researchers needed – TOPCSP aims for new CSP PhDs
- Researchers process wet waste with solar heat onsite in a mobile tanker truck
- Over 50% of India’s renewables tender to be concentrated solar thermal
- Over 90% efficient energy storage improved by flowing heat round two pebble layers
- A solar sulphur cycle to make unlimited thermal energy storage
- Solar pyrolysis for recycling lithium-ion batteries aces Proof of Concept
- Two CSP studies quantify a trade-off between solar efficiency and LCOE
- Another standalone thermal energy storage tech – the Heatcube
- India’s next renewables tender carves out 50% for CSP
- 3D-printed ceria is a game-changer to increase solar fuel efficiency
- Methane pyrolysis with liquid metals in a bubble column reactor to generate green hydrogen and carbon
- CSP desalination siting tool demonstrated in Australia
- Solar concentration boosted by shape-shifting heliostat glass
- Australia’s liquid sodium solar receiver to be on show in October
SolarPACES Announcements
CSP News Briefs
CSP Tech Explainers
