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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2014
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
James F. Klausner, Gainesville, FL (US);
Joerg Petrasch, Dornbin, AT;
Nicholas AuYeung, Gainesville, FL (US);
Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen, Gainesville, FL (US);
Rishi Mishra, Gainesville, FL (US);
Jinchao Lu, Gainesville, FL (US);
David Worthington Hahn, Gainesville, FL (US);
Nikhil Sehgal, Navi Mumbai, IN;
Renwei Mei, Gainesville, FL (US);
Benjamin Greek, Gainesville, FL (US);
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
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° 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.