A Path of Multi-Energy Hybrids of Concentrating Solar Energy and Carbon Fuels for Low CO2 Emission   

Hui Hong1,2,*,Email

Lin Gao1,2

Yawen Zheng1,2

Xueli Xing1,2

Fan Sun3

Taixiu Liu1,2

Vignesh Murugadoss4

Zhanhu Guo5

Ming Yang1,2 

Hang Zhang1,2,*,Email

Laboratory of Integrated Energy System and Renewable Energy, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

International Research Center for Renewable Energy & State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

Advanced Materials Division, Engineered Multifunctional Composites Nanotech. LLC., Knoxville, 37934, USA

Integrated Composites Laboratory (ICL), Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

Abstract

There is a great need for a sustainable fossil fuel power system with near zero CO2 emissions and stabilizing the renewable electricity. Setting a course towards such sustainability and stabilization will require the development of energy sources that do not emit carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in the coming decades. Here, we investigated the possible hybrid power generation from solar and carbon fuels, in which CO2 has been captured by solar thermochemical process. The evaluation of the potential of this hybrid energy system could contribute to a development that can allow both free of carbon dioxide emissions and stabilization of solar electricity.