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Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry R&D Virtual Workshop Series Concentrating Solar Power Program Avi Shultz, CSP Program Manager, US DOE energy.gov/solar-office Levi Irwin, CSP Technology Manager, Contractor to US DOE energy.gov/solar-office [email protected] Progress and Goals: 2030 LCOE Goals Murphy, et al. 2019, NREL/TP-6A20-71912 2 energy.gov/solar-office CSP Technical Targets $43M FY 2020 SETO FOA (2020) $30M FY 2019 SETO FOA (2019) $22M FY 2018 SETO FOA (2019) $21M Solar Desalination (2018) $22M FY19-21 National Lab Call (2018) $70M Gen3 CSP Systems (2018) $15M Gen3 CSP Lab Support (2018) 3 energy.gov/solar-office Solar Thermal Industrial Process Heat Thermally-Driven Industrial Processes: SOLAR PROCESS HEAT • Desalination • Enhanced Oil Recovery • Agriculture and Food Processing • Fuel and Chemicals Production • Mining and Metals Processing Solar Steam Generator or HTM- to-Process HXer Process Heat 4 energy.gov/solar-office Solar Thermal can Integrate with the Existing Energy System 5 energy.gov/solar-office Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power UPCOMING WEBINARS: • Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Receivers, Reactors, and Heat Exchangers December 3 | 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET • CSP Performance and Reliability Innovations December 10 | 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET 6 energy.gov/solar-office Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry R&D Virtual Workshop Series Concentrating Solar Power Program Levi Irwin, CSP Technology Manager, Contractor to US DOE energy.gov/solar-office [email protected] energy.gov/solar-office Agenda Time Session Introduction and Workshop Overview 11:00AM– Avi Shultz, DOE Program Manager, Concentrating Solar Power 11:30AM Levi Irwin, Technology Manager, Concentrating Solar Power Panel – Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry Christian Sattler, DLR German Aerospace Center 11:30AM– James Klausner, Michigan State University 12:30PM Tim Held, Echogen Andrea Ambrosini, Sandia National Laboratory 12:30PM– Panel Discussion, Question and Answer 1:30PM Closing Remarks 1:30 PM Avi Shultz, Department of Energy 8 energy.gov/solar-office Solar Thermochemical Systems – What Are They? • Being a Concentrating Solar Thermal Facility and a Chemical Processing Facility • May or may not also produce power (electricity) • The chemical may be stored and re-used on site or shipped off-site as a finished product • Includes the preparation of fuels, commodity chemicals • Green field or brown field? • New infrastructure; new process • Append to existing infrastructure; (slight) mod to process 9 energy.gov/solar-office Thinking through Risk within Tiers of Technology Maturity Integrated Pilot • 10 MW + • System level Risk Retirement Scale Demonstration Pilot Demo Pilot Scale • 1-10 MW • Prove well understood models Prototype Operation at commercial relevant scale Design Refinement, • 100-1,000 kW Respond to identified Challenges • Validation and Isolated Risk Retirement Innovation Discovery, • 10-100 kW • Conclusion Driven Research Viability Realization 10 energy.gov/solar-office Innovation Discovery, A Little Bit History Viability Realization Energy balance O&M, Dynamics Markets Mass balance Degradations Technoeconomics Exergy LANL + + SRI Electrochemistry Corrosion MSU, SNL MSU, PNNL + + PNNL Gas SoCal Sensing DLR Creep SRNL, PNNL Phases Echogen Fatigue Alloys Grain Structure Atomics General Corrosion Mass Transport Modeling Endurance Inorganics Enthalpy/Entropy Thermochemistry Thermodynamics Kinetics Oils Liquids Nitrates Air Heat Transfer Solids Chlorides scCO2 Gasses Sand Radiative Proppants Metal Sulfides Metal Metal Carbonates Metal Metal Hydrides Metal Methane Reforming Methane - Band Gap Engineering Optical Physics Thin Films Thermodynamics Sulfur and its oxides andits Sulfur Steam Kinetics Oxides Metal 11 energy.gov/solar-officeMass Transport Thermochemical Concerns Compound with Innovative Receivers Ishikawa diagram approach Be thinking about how thermochemical nests into all these… Thermal Mechanical Chemical System Cost The receiver Efficiency Lifetime Lifetime Integration cannot satisfy Thermal Flux Limitation Combined Creep Fatigue External Oxidation Disimilar material Material Supply Chain the application Property Degredation Crack Rupture HTF Interaction Transient State Points Process Energy Heat Transfer Media limitations Thermal Stress Design for manufacture Utility / Regulator Chemical Kinetics Mass or Chemical Flow Control Numbering up Risk Project pipeline / scale Chemical Thermodynamics Property repeatability Manu- Market Operability Scalability facture Adoption 12 energy.gov/solar-office Workshop Goals For the Panel and Audience: How comes a solar receiver to be part of a chemically reactive system? • Instead of systems level analysis think what systems must be in place to achieve thermochemical process • Lift innovation up from lab-scale research to on-sun demonstration • Balance constraints between solar component and the remainder of the system • What are the key risks that are often overlooked early in the development process How should testing campaigns be designed to manage those risks? • What are overlooked technical metrics/objectives that should be considered at both early and late stages? How should research outcomes be packaged so as to draw attention from industry and other private sponsors? 13 energy.gov/solar-office Agenda Time Session Introduction and Workshop Overview 11:00AM– Avi Shultz, DOE Program Manager, Concentrating Solar Power 11:30AM Levi Irwin, Technology Manager, Concentrating Solar Power Panel – Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry Christian Sattler, DLR German Aerospace Center 11:30AM– James Klausner, Michigan State University 12:30PM Tim Held, Echogen Andrea Ambrosini, Sandia National Laboratory 12:30PM– Panel Discussion, Question and Answer 1:30PM Closing Remarks 1:30 PM Avi Shultz, Department of Energy 14 energy.gov/solar-office Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry ~Our Panelists~ Christian Sattler James Klausner Tim Held Andrea Ambrosini DLR German Aerospace Michigan State University Echogen Sandia National Lab Center 15 energy.gov/solar-office Agenda Time Session Introduction and Workshop Overview 11:00AM– Avi Shultz, DOE Program Manager, Concentrating Solar Power 11:30AM Levi Irwin, Technology Manager, Concentrating Solar Power Panel – Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry Christian Sattler, DLR German Aerospace Center 11:30AM– James Klausner, Michigan State University 12:30PM Tim Held, Echogen Andrea Ambrosini, Sandia National Laboratory 12:30PM– Panel Discussion, Question and Answer 1:30PM Closing Remarks 1:30 PM Avi Shultz, Department of Energy 16 energy.gov/solar-office Workshop Goals For the Panel and Audience: How comes a solar receiver to be part of a chemically reactive system? • Instead of systems level analysis think what systems must be in place to achieve thermochemical process • Lift innovation up from lab-scale research to on-sun demonstration • Balance constraints between solar component and the remainder of the system • What are the key risks that are often overlooked early in the development process How should testing campaigns be designed to manage those risks? • What are overlooked technical metrics/objectives that should be considered at both early and late stages? How should research outcomes be packaged so as to draw attention from industry and other private sponsors? 17 energy.gov/solar-office Agenda Time Session Introduction and Workshop Overview 11:00AM– Avi Shultz, DOE Program Manager, Concentrating Solar Power 11:30AM Levi Irwin, Technology Manager, Concentrating Solar Power Panel – Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry Christian Sattler, DLR German Aerospace Center 11:30AM– James Klausner, Michigan State University 12:30PM Tim Held, Echogen Andrea Ambrosini, Sandia National Laboratory 12:30PM– Panel Discussion, Question and Answer 1:30PM Closing Remarks 1:30 PM Avi Shultz, Department of Energy 18 energy.gov/solar-office Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power UPCOMING WEBINARS: • Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Receivers, Reactors, and Heat Exchangers December 3 | 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET • CSP Performance and Reliability Innovations December 10 | 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET 19 energy.gov/solar-office DLR.de • Chart 1 > Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry – DLR Perspective > Christian Sattler • Institute of Future Fuels > 11/19/20 Unlocking Solar Thermochemical Potential: Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry – DLR Perspective Christian Sattler Institute of Future Fuels [email protected] DLR.de • Chart 2 > Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry – DLR Perspective > Christian Sattler • Institute of Future Fuels > 11/19/20 Thermochemical Processes: Heat Solar Fuels: Hydrogen, SynGas, Methanol, Kerosene, … Generation Solar Chemicals: Sulfur, Ammonia, … Solar Materials: Cement, Phosphate, Metals, … High Temperature Thermochemical Storage Solar high temperature heat costs less than 1 €cents/kWh DLR.de • Chart 3 > Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry – DLR Perspective > Christian Sattler • Institute of Future Fuels > 11/19/20 Strategy to improve the efficiency of Solar Thermochemical Processes Integration into R&D Programs 25% Scale-up Automation Concentrators Reactors Materials DLR.de • Chart 4 > Leveraging CSP Experience for Solar Thermochemistry – DLR Perspective > Christian Sattler
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