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Solar fuels production from concentrated solar energy

Grant number: 21/12473-7
Support Opportunities:Regular Research Grants
Start date: March 01, 2023
End date: February 28, 2025
Field of knowledge:Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
Principal Investigator:José Roberto Simões Moreira
Grantee:José Roberto Simões Moreira
Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Associated researchers:Beethoven Narváez Romo ; Douglas Gouvêa ; Jeferson Diehl de Oliveira ; Larissa Costa Sobral ; Lina Maria Varón Cardona

Abstract

Solar fuels such as hydrogen are gases a fuels with energetic characteristics capable of replacing fossil fuels, providing a clean emissions' environment in a tendency to economy decarbonization. Hydrogen is obtained from biogas sources, catalytic processes, hydrolysis and electrolysis. The world's most widely used sources are those using conventional technology, although there are smaller-scale sources of production based on renewable energies, such as metallurgical thermochemical cycles using solar energy. The present research project aims to study and develop a two-stage thermochemical cycle through the oxidation-reduction (redox) processes of a metal using concentrated solar energy to produce hydrogen. In order to do so, it envisages the implementation of a mini-hydrogen production plant at laboratory level, whose thermal energy comes from a high flow solar simulator, such as the one in full final phase of implantation in the SISEA laboratory, coordinated by the proponent. This proposal follows the 7th SDG - affordable and clean energy. (AU)

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
VARON, L. M.; NARVAEZ-ROMO, B.; COSTA-SOBRAL, L.; BARRETO, G.; SIMOES, J. R.. Novel high-flux indoor solar simulator for high temperature thermal processes. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, v. 234, p. 15-pg., . (16/09509-1, 21/12473-7, 18/12224-4, 20/08211-4)