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The chemical looping reforming of methane through the nonstoichiometric ceria redox cycle(CeO2/CeO2-δ)has been experimentally investigated in a directly irradiated solar reactor to convert both solar energy and methane to syngas in the temperature range 9
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Processes,Materials and Solar Energy Laboratory,PROMES-CNRS,Font-Romeu 66120,France;Department of Me
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The chemical looping reforming of methane through the nonstoichiometric ceria redox cycle(CeO2/CeO2-δ)has been experimentally investigated in a directly irradiated solar reactor to convert both solar energy and methane to syngas in the temperature range 900-1050℃.Experiments were carried out with different ceria shapes via two-step redox cycling composed of endothermic partial reduction of ceria with methane and complete exothermic re-oxidation of reduced ceria with H2O/CO2 at the same operating temperature,thereby demonstrating the capability to operate the cycle isothermally.A parametric study considering different ceria macrostructure variants(ceria packed powder,ceria packed powder mixed with inert Al2O3 particles,and ceria reticulated porous foam)and operating parameters(methane flow-rate,reduction temperature,or sintering temperature)was conducted in order to unravel their impact on the bed-averaged oxygen non-stoichiometry(δ),syngas yield,methane conversion,and solar reactor performance.The ceria cycling stability was also experimentally investigated to demonstrate repeatable syngas production by alternating the flow between CH4 and H2O(or CO2).A decrease in sin-tering temperature of the ceria foam was beneficial for increasing syngas selectivity,methane conversion,and reactor performance.Increasing both CH4 concentration and reduction temperature enhanced δ with the maximum value up to 0.41 but concomitantly favored CH4 cracking reaction.The ceria reticulated porous foam showed better performance in terms of effective heat transfer,due to volumetric absorption of concentrated solar radiation and uniform heating with lower solar power consumption,thereby pro-moting the solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency that reached up to 5.60％.The energy upgrade factor achieved during cycle was up to 1.19.Stable patterns in the δ and syngas yield for consecutive cycles with the ceria foam validated material performance stability.
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