Abstract
The present chapter summarizes the results of the METISOL project, an initiative funded by the Italian Government and devoted to the production and storage in solid state adsorbers of methane/hydrogen mixtures. Two main routes were investigated for the production: steam reforming associated with Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and biological production based on optimized two steps methane and hydrogen production. The storage of the gas mixture was focused on automotive applications and was based on solid state high specific surface adsorbers such as activated carbons and Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). The most interesting results of the project were related to the possibility to build a methane/hydrogen automotive filling station energetically coupled with the CSP/reforming plant. The following pages contain a detailed overview of the CSP plant.
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Abbreviations
- ANI:
-
Aperture Normal Irradiance (W/m2)
- A SCA :
-
Area of solar collector (m2)
- CNG:
-
Compressed Natural Gas
- CSP:
-
Concentrated Solar Power
- DNI:
-
Direct Normal Irradiance (W/m2)
- EL:
-
End Losses
- ENEA:
-
Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile
- HCE:
-
Heat Collecting Element
- HTF:
-
Heat Transfer Fluid
- IAM:
-
Incidence Angle Modifier
- METISOL:
-
Metano-Idrogeno da energia SOLare (methane–hydrogen from solar energy)
- MOF:
-
Metal Organic Frameworks
- P SUN :
-
Solar thermal power (kWh/year)
- P HCE :
-
Power concentrated on collecting element (kWh/year)
- P HTF :
-
Power transferred to thermal fluid (kWh/year)
- P TLoss :
-
Power lost due to the irradiation by the heat collecting element (HCE)
- RS:
-
Row Shadow
- TES:
-
Thermal Energy Storage
- VTES:
-
Volume of thermal energy storage (m3)
- θ :
-
Angle of incidence of solar radiation on the collector (rad)
- η opt :
-
Optical efficiency of the collector
- η th :
-
Thermal efficiency of the heat collecting element
- η :
-
Total efficiency of the collection system
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Caputo, G., Mazzei, D., Sgroi, M.F. (2016). Methane/Hydrogen Mixtures from Concentrated Solar Energy: The METISOL Project. In: De Falco, M., Basile, A. (eds) Enriched Methane. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22192-2_3
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