Solar Concentrating Facilities

The solar concentrating research facilities at PSI and at ETH-Zurich offer state-of-the-art experimental platforms for developing the chemical reactor technology aimed at:

• the production of solar fuels (e.g. hydrogen)
• the processing of energy-intensive material commodities (e.g. lime, metals), and
• testing advanced ceramic materials at temperatures up to 3000 K under intense radiation fluxes and controlled atmospheres.

Solar Furnace (45 kW, 5000 suns)	Parabolic Concentrator (70 kW, 3000 suns)
ETH's High-Flux Solar Simulator (75 kW, 5000 suns)	PSI's High-Flux Solar Simulator (50 kW, 10000 suns)

Related Publications (click for abstract)

	A New High-Flux Solar Furnace for High-Temperature Thermochemical Research
	Haueter P., Seitz T., Steinfeld A.
	Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 121, pp. 77-80, 1999.
	A New 75 kW High-Flux Solar Simulator for High-Temperature Thermal and Thermochemical Research
	Hirsch D., von Zedtwitz P., Osinga T., Kinamore J., Steinfeld A.
	ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 125, pp. 117-120, 2003.
	A 50-kW 11,000-suns novel high-flux solar simulator based on an array of Xenon arc lamps
	Petrasch J., Coray P., Meier A., Brack M., Haeberling P., Wuillemin D., Steinfeld A.
	ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 4, pp. 405-411, 2007.