A solar methane reforming reactor design with enhanced efficiency

We report an efficiency-enhanced solar methane reforming reactor design, featuring cutoff wavelength coating over quartz window for incident solar energy, a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) device for thermochemical performance enhancement and reticulated porous ceramics (RPC) structure of Ni/CeO 2 -ZrO 2 used as the catalyst. A numerical model combining Monte-Carlo ray-tracing (MCRT) method with finite-element method (FEM) is established...