Design and Test of a Concentrated Solar Powered Fluidized Bed Reactor for Ilmenite Reduction (IMAGE)

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Design and Test of a Concentrated Solar Powered Fluidized Bed Reactor for Ilmenite Reduction

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With the successful test of this solar reactor design, Denk has achieved the first step, creating H2O on the Moon using solar thermal energy. For the second step, solar electrolysis would break the H2O into hydrogen and oxygen.

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Thorsten Denk: Presentation at the International Annual SolarPACES Conference 2017

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