University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

Jinchao Lu

James F Klausner

Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen

Renwei Mei

David Worthington Hahn

Joerg Petrasch

Nicholas AuYeung

Rishi Mishra

Nikhil Sehgal

Benjamin Greek

Kyle Douglas Allen

Fotouh A Al-Raqom

Disclosed herein is a solar reactor comprising a reactor member; an aperture for receiving solar radiation, the aperture being disposed in a plane on a wall of the reactor member, where the plane is oriented at any angle other than parallel relative to the centerline of the reactor member; a plurality of absorber tubes, wherein the absorber tubes are oriented such that their respective centerlines are at an angle other than 90&#xb0; relative to the centerline of the reactor member; and wherein the aperture has a hydraulic diameter that is from 0.2 to 4 times a hydraulic diameter of at least one absorber tube in the plurality of absorber tubes; and a reactive material, the reactive material being disposed in the plurality of absorber tubes.

Solar thermochemical reactor and methods of manufacture and use thereof

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Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Jinchao Lu