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Solar Energy in Thermochemical Processing

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Solar Thermal Energy
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Glossary

Aperture:

Opening of a solar cavity receiver.

Carnot efficiency:

Maximum efficiency for converting heat from a high-temperature thermal reservoir at TH into work in a cyclic process, and rejecting heat to a low-temperature thermal reservoir at TL, given by 1 âˆ’ TL/TH.

CB (carbon black):

Important industrial raw material used as pigment and reinforcement in rubber and plastic products.

CPC (compound parabolic concentrator):

Nonimaging concentrating device that is usually positioned in tandem with the primary parabolic concentrating system to further augment the solar concentration ratio.

CSP (concentrating solar power):

CSP plants generate electricity by converting solar energy into high-temperature heat using various mirror configurations.

Direct normal solar irradiance:

Power flux of direct solar irradiation on a surface perpendicular to the sun’s rays

Endothermic:

Absorbs heat.

Exergy efficiency (for a solar thermochemical process):

The efficiency for converting solar energy...

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Meier, A., Steinfeld, A. (2022). Solar Energy in Thermochemical Processing. In: Alexopoulos, S., Kalogirou, S.A. (eds) Solar Thermal Energy. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1422-8_689

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