A 100 kW th scale solar thermochemical pilot plant has also been developed for two-step water and CO 2 splitting via the Zn/ZnO thermochemical cycle, achieving a solar-to-fuel efficiency of 5% with a reaction temperature above 1700 °C .
Solar hydrogen production devices have demonstrated promising performance at the lab scale, but there are few large-scale on-sun demonstrations. Here the authors present a thermally integrated kilowatt-scale pilot plant, tested under real-world conditions, for the co-generation of hydrogen and heat.
Here we present the successful scaling of a thermally integrated photoelectrochemical device—utilizing concentrated solar irradiation—to a kW-scale pilot plant capable of co-generation of hydrogen and heat. A solar-to-hydrogen device-level efficiency of greater than 20% at an H 2 production rate of >2.0 kW (>0.8 g min −1) is achieved.
While solar-to-fuel efficiencies are typically based on the Gibbs free energy under standard conditions 37, it is common in the water electrolysis field for voltage efficiencies to be reported on an enthalpy basis (HHV) 34, and therefore both definitions (discussed further in Supplementary Note 4) will be used here for completeness.
A 100 kW e solar-fuel hybrid power generation pilot plant with solar thermochemistry was successfully designed, constructed, and operated under varying solar irradiation levels and power
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