Journal
REACTION CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 561-566Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7re00077d
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- European Union [641861]
- Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) [14150]
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Luminescent solar concentrator-based photomicroreactors (LSC-PMs) have been recently proposed for sustainable and energy-efficient photochemical reactions. Herein, a Monte Carlo ray tracing algorithm to simulate photon paths within LSC-PMs was developed and experimentally validated. The simulation results were then used to investigate the expected efficiency of scaled-up devices. A novel metric, defined as the ` Average Photon Path Traveled in the Device' (APPTD), was introduced to measure the impact of different channel design choices and to rationalize the LSC-PM improvement over traditional LSC. The simulation results suggest that the combination of luminescent solar concentrators and continuous-flow photochemistry has the potential to become the most photon-efficient application of LSCs reported to date.
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