... a simplified model that can be adapted easily to different reactor designs or different operating conditions. For this reason, the chemical reaction is not precisely fixed but rather characterized by a reaction temperature and a useful power consumed by the endothermic reaction, inside the reactive material...

... losses through the reactor aperture, wall losses due to thermal conduction and heat consumption by the endothermic chemical reaction. Key results include temperatures of the different reactor walls and the thermal efficiency of the reactor as a function of the major geometrical and physical parameters...

... ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME Solar Energy Division, March 2002; final revision, June 2002. Associate Editor: A. Kripus. 01 March 2002 01 June 2002 27 01 2003 zinc compounds solar absorber-convertors solar heating chemical reactions vortices latent heat...

... the interception of the horizontal dashed line with the curve corresponding to A 2 / A 0 → ∞ . For the case of a perfectly insulated outer cavity and no chemical reaction, Q sink =0 and the incoming energy is completely re-radiated back through the aperture. Thus, at thermal...

... of the reaction for subsequent kinetic analysis. solar energy concentrators solar heating chemical reactions sunlight heat transfer thermal analysis 01 July 2000 01 December 2000 Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers...