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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Année : 2010

A pilot-scale solar reactor for the production of hydrogen and carbon black from methane splitting

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A pilot-scale solar reactor was designed and operated at the 1 MW solar furnace of CNRS for H 2 and carbon black production from methane splitting. This constitutes the final objective of the SOLHYCARB EC project. The reaction of CH 4 dissociation produces H 2 and carbon nanoparticles without CO 2 emissions and with a solar upgrade of 8% of the high heating value of the products. The reactor was composed of 7 tubular reaction zones and of a graphite cavity-type solar receiver behaving as a black-body cavity. Temperature measurements around the cavity showed a homogeneous temperature distribution. The influence of temperature (1608Ke1928K) and residence time (37e71 ms) on methane conversion, hydrogen yield, and carbon yield was especially stressed. For 900 g/h of CH 4 injected (50% molar, the rest being argon) at 1800K, this reactor produced 200 g/h H 2 (88% H 2 yield), 330 g/h CB (49% C yield) and 340 g/h C 2 H 2 with a thermal efficiency of 15%. C 2 H 2 was the most important by-product and its amount decreased by increasing the residence time. A 2D thermal model of the reactor was developed. It showed that the design of the reactor front face could be drastically improved to lower thermal losses. The optimised design could reach 77% of the ideal black-body absorption efficiency (86% at 1800K), i.e. 66%.
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hal-02567190 , version 1 (13-05-2020)

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Sylvain Rodat, Stéphane Abanades, Jean-Louis Sans, Gilles Flamant. A pilot-scale solar reactor for the production of hydrogen and carbon black from methane splitting. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2010, 35 (15), pp.7748-7758. ⟨10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.05.057⟩. ⟨hal-02567190⟩
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