This issue’s special section on energy focuses on concentrating solar thermal (CST) technology. The first article provides an overview of CST and introduces various applications. The second article details the different types of solar thermochemical energy storage (TCES) that could be combined with CST in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The final article explains how ammonia synthesis could be used for TCES in a solar receiver that would also function as an ammonia reactor.
This is an expanded version of the Editorial that appeared in the print version of Chemical Engineering Progress, July 2017. The mission of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is to overcome the long-term and high-risk...
