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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• TOLGA BALTA, M
• DINCER, Ibrahim
• HEPBASLI, Arif

Titel

Performance assessment of solar-driven integrated Mg-Cl cycle for hydrogen production

Ist Teil von

• International journal of hydrogen energy, 2014-12, Vol.39 (35), p.20652-20661

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study develops a new solar energy system integrated with a Mg-Cl thermochemical cycle for hydrogen production and analyzes it both energetically and exergetically for efficiency assessment. The solar based integrated Mg-Cl cycle system considered here consists of five subsystems, such as: (i) heliostat field subsystem, (ii) central receiver subsystem, (iii) steam generation subsystem, (iv) conventional power cycle subsystem and (v) Mg-Cl subsystem. Also, the inlet and outlet energy and exergy rates of all of subsystems are calculated and illustrated accordingly. We also undertake a parametric study to investigate how the overall system performance is affected by the reference environment temperature and operating conditions. As a result, the overall energy and exergy efficiencies of the considered system are found to be 18.18% and 19.15%, respectively. The results show that the Mg-Cl cycle has good potential and attractive overall cycle efficiencies over 50%.