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2021-194 GASEOUS HYDROCARBON SELF-CATALYZING SOLAR REFORMING AND SOLID CARBON DEPOSITION
SUMMARY: UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a method for green hydrogen production through high flux solar heating and a porous substrate. BACKGROUND: With populations rising and the search for more sustainable sources of energy accelerating, hydrogen has been touted as a desirable sustainable...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Inventor(s): Timothy Fisher
Keywords(s): Concentrated Solar Power Chemical Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Energy Generation & Storage, Energy Generation, Transmission, or Storage, Environmental Remediation, Functional Materials, Hydrogen, Methane, Methane Reformer, Methane Reformer Hydrogen Production, Renewable Energy, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Thermal Energy Storage
Category(s): Mechanical, Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency
Passive Carbon Sequestration from Methane Reforming for Large-scale Fuel Production
Converts Methane into Pure Hydrogen or Synthesis Gas at Lower TemperaturesThis methane reforming pathway uses condensation to sequester either pure carbon or carbon dioxide. Currently available methods of industrial methane conversion to synthesis gas, or syngas (i.e., H2 and CO), primarily consists of the following techniques: steam reforming of methane,...
Published: 6/27/2021   |   Inventor(s): Jonathan Scheffe, Kent Warren
Keywords(s): Methane, Redox Cycle, separation, Solar, Zirconium Oxide
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Mechanical