Analysis of concentrated solar powered conical reactor with coal ash as catalyst

Nowadays there is an increase in the usage of non-renewable products to produce the energy required to sustain in day to day life, which results in the generation of harmful emissions such as greenhouse gases, in turn, leads to an increase in earth’s surface temperature and depletion of the ozone layer. On the other hand, the generation of usable energy requires fossil fuels to satisfy the thermal input. So switching to renewable energy for the thermal input for fossil fuels saves the environment for further damage, mainly solar energy which is abundantly available and free of cost. Hence creating much more interest in researchers to establish and enhance the performance of solar energy coupled reactor. By implementing solar energy as the input for the reactor there will be a decrease in the consumption of fossil fuels to produce heat energy. In this present study solar concentrated power is used as an input fuel supply to the reactor process where the dish type concentrator used of diameter 1.4m and has a focal length of 0.28m which is focused towards the preferred conical shape reactor because of the effective flux distribution inside the reactor than the other shapes. The reactor volume of 13.9m 3 is fixed at the focal distance where the receiver absorbs more amount of radiation from the concentrator, leads to an increase in the temperature inside the reactor and the specimen inside the reactor will generate gases. by using the coal ash as a catalyst there is a temperature increase of 10%. That is without any catalyst the reactor inside temperature is 100°C and with coal ash as catalyst 110°C.