Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150102230
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
New understanding and models for two-phase solar thermal particle receivers. The project aims to provide the new understanding of, and computational design tools for, next generation solar thermal particle receivers and their hybrids. Particle receivers, which heat fine particles in suspension, offer much greater efficiency than current tubular receivers, but are presently unreliable due to the poor understanding of the complex and coupled mechanisms that govern their performance. The results are expected to speed up the development and roll-out of these devices, to deliver cost-effective, low-emissions energy technologies for future power generation and thermo-chemical processes. The aims will be met by the parallel application of advanced laser diagnostic measurements and computational fluid dynamics modelling techniques.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2015
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $611,800.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Turbulent Flows | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering | Heat and Mass Transfer Operations
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Biofuel (Biomass) Energy | Solar-Thermal Energy | Transformation of Coal into Liquid Fuels |
