Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Schematic of the generalized geometry for a molten salt solar gasification reactor

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Simplified diagram of a solar gasification facility. (1) Heliostat field, (2) beam-down tower, (3) receiver/reactor, (4) feedstock inlet to reactor and syngas outlet to downstream process.

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: System schematic for the modeled concentrating solar gasification facility. The boundaries of the analysis are represented by the dotted lines. The components and flows with dashed lines are used to assist the solar-driven gasification process when insufficient sunlight is available. Potential downstream processes are shown in the dash-dotted lines at the right.

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Surface plot of the annual solar fraction as a function of the nominal syngas yield rate and heat capacity of the reactor

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Surface plot of specific yield of synthesis gas for facilities of various heat capacities and annual solar fractions

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Surface plot of annual average thermal efficiency as a function of the nominal syngas yield rate and the heat capacity of the reactor

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Comparison of normalized syngas yield rate over the course of a typical summer week for a facility achieving a solar fraction of fsolar  = 50% with heat capacity values of Ceff = 6 GJ/K for the dashed line and Ceff = 21 GJ/K for the solid line. The incident solar power is included for reference.

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Comparison of normalized syngas yield rate over the course of a typical summer week for a facility with heat capacity Ceff = 11 GJ/K with nominal feed throughputs resulting in solar fractions of fsolar = 80% for the solid line and fsolar = 40% for the dashed line. The incident solar power is included for reference.

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Contours of maximum synthesis gas overrate as a function of the facility heat capacity or carbonate salt volume and annual solar fraction. The shaded region indicates a maximum overrate unacceptable for continuously feeding a downstream power production process.

Date of download: 10/10/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Integration of Solar Gasification With Conventional Fuel Production: The Roles of Storage and Hybridization J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;136(1):010906-010906-10. doi:10.1115/1.4025971 Figure Legend: Contours of required CSGS tank volume in thousands of cubic meters at 30 bar and 300 K in order to allow for a steady rate of consumption in a downstream fuel production process as a function of the facility heat capacity or carbonate salt volume and annual solar fraction