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Solar cracking of methane is a promising technology for emission free hydrogen production. One of the major problems affecting methane cracking solar reactors’ performance is the carbon particle deposition on the window, walls, and at the exit. We use three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and flow configurations using Discrete Phase Method (DPM) for various reactor geometries to solve this problem.

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Last updated, August 2009

Research

FS1- particle seeding point

FS2- particle seeding point

FS3- particle seeding point

Window

Tangential main flow inlets (F1)

Window screening flow (F2)

Tertiary flow (F31)

Tertiary flow F32 (F32)

Wall

Outlet

        (a) Geometry with inlet points                                                       (b) Adaptive grid used in simulation

(a) DPM particle concentration on reactor walls for Case1

(b) DPM particle concentration on reactor walls for Case 8