Particle-based high-temperature thermochemical energy storage reactors

J Zhao, D Korba, A Mishra, J Klausner… - Progress in Energy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar and other renewable energy driven gas-solid thermochemical energy storage (TCES)
technology is a promising solution for the next generation energy storage systems due to its …

Fluidized beds for concentrated solar thermal technologies—A review

C Tregambi, M Troiano, F Montagnaro… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Thermal and thermochemical processes can be efficiently developed and carried out in
fluidized beds, due to the unique properties of fluidized suspensions of solid particles and to …

Coarse-grained CFD-DEM study of Gas-solid flow in gas cyclone

K Chu, Y Chen, L Ji, Z Zhou, A Yu, J Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Gas cyclones are common device in various industries to separate solid particles and/or
droplets from gas streams. Nonetheless, the mathematical modelling of gas cyclone has …

A novel fluidized bed “thermochemical battery” for energy storage in concentrated solar thermal technologies

S Padula, C Tregambi, R Solimene, R Chirone… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermochemical energy storage is gaining widespread consideration to increase energy
dispatchability in concentrating solar thermal power plants. Accordingly, excess solar energy …

Applying the solar solid particles as heat carrier to enhance the solar-driven biomass gasification with dynamic operation power generation performance analysis

Z Bai, Y Gu, S Wang, T Jiang, D Kong, Q Li - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-driven biomass gasification is a promising technology to improve the utilization
efficiency of solar energy and biomass, which also enhances the thermochemical storage …

A novel autothermal fluidized bed reactor for concentrated solar thermal applications

C Tregambi, C Bevilacqua, M Troiano… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study a novel directly-irradiated fluidized bed autothermal reactor (DIFBAR)
for solar-driven chemical processing is presented. The reactor exploits the very concept of …

[HTML][HTML] Directly irradiated fluidized bed autothermal reactor (DIFBAR): Hydrodynamics, thermal behaviour and preliminary reactive tests

S Padula, M Troiano, C Tregambi, R Solimene… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The advancements of the Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technologies in the heat and
power sector are pushing researchers to find new ways to exploit solar energy. Solar-driven …

Heat transfer performance of particle solar receiver: Numerical study

SA Marzouk, MK El-Fakharany… - Heat Transfer Research, 2022 - dl.begellhouse.com
In this study, the effects of helical spring vortex generators on the thermal performance and
pressure drop of particle solar receivers are investigated. Four different types of materials …

Influence of particle loading, Froude and Stokes number on the global thermal performance of a vortex-based solar particle receiver

D Ang, A Chinnici, ZF Tian, WL Saw, GJ Nathan - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We report a joint experimental and numerical study on the global thermal performance of a
novel windowless vortex-based cavity receiver for potential thermal processing of …

Wood-inspired dual-scale directional channel cellulose bioreactors with high mass transfer efficiency for continuous flow catalytic green conversion

EJ Liu, YS Shen, MY Ling, CX He, X Zhou, J Wang… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, microfluidic bioreactors have become important in chemical production;
however, the production cost is high, and it becomes difficult to balance scale, efficiency …