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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 42, Issue 37, Pages 23416-23426Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.03.172
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Hydrogen production; Solar energy; Samarium oxide; Erbium oxide; Thermodynamics; Water splitting
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- NPRP from Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) [NPRP8-370-2-154]
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This paper reports a thermodynamic comparison between the samarium and erbium oxide based solar thermochemical water splitting cycles. These cycles are a two-step process in which the metal oxide is first thermally reduced into the pure metal, and the produced metal can be used to split water to produce H-2. The metal oxides can be reused for multiple cycles without consumption. The effect of water splitting temperature on various thermodynamic parameters which are essential to design the solar reactor system for the production of H2 via water splitting reaction using the samarium and erbium oxides is studied in detail. The total amount of solar energy needed for the thermal reduction of samarium and erbium oxides is estimated. The amount of heat energy released by the water splitting reactor is calculated. Also, the cycle and solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency for both cycles are determined by employing heat recuperation. Obtained results indicate that the efficiencies associated with these cycles are comparable to the previously studies thermochemical cycles. It is observed that higher water splitting temperature favors towards higher efficiencies. At constant thermal reduction temperature = 2280 K, by employing 50% heat recuperation, the solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency for the samarium cycle (30.98%) is observed to be higher than erbium cycle (28.19%). (C) 2017 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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