Test Furnace for Solar Sintering of Manganese Ore Fines (IMAGE)
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Hockaday used a 2-meter diameter dish-type heliostat that generates highly focused intense heat at 955°C within a small solar furnace containing sample ores about a meter above the heliostat.
A small solar reactor with tightly focused solar flux highly concentrated on a single point can attain the range of extremely high temperatures that are required to achieve thermochemical reactions. Solar reactors can be designed specifically for their process applications, just like solar thermal energy plants are designed to integrate with power blocks.
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Lina Hockaday, Mintek
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