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@article{Elvis:2020:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101856,
author = {Elvis, Cao X and Kaminer, Y and Hong, T and Schein, P and Liu, T and Hanrath, T and Erickson, D},
doi = {10.1016/j.isci.2020.101856},
journal = {iScience},
title = {HI-Light: A Glass-Waveguide-Based "Shell-and-Tube" Photothermal Reactor Platform for Converting CO2 to Fuels.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101856},
volume = {23},
year = {2020}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - In this work, we introduce HI-Light, a surface-engineered glass-waveguide-based "shell-and-tube" type photothermal reactor which is both scalable in diameter and length. We examine the effect of temperature, light irradiation, and residence time on its photo-thermocatalytic performance for CO2 hydrogenation to form CO, with a cubic phase defect-laden indium oxide, In2O3-x(OH)y, catalyst. We demonstrate the light enhancement effect under a variety of reaction conditions. Notably, the light-on performance for the cubic nanocrystal photocatalyst exhibits a CO evolution rate at 15.40 mmol gcat -1 hr-1 at 300°C and atmospheric pressure. This is 20 times higher conversion rate per unit catalyst mass per unit time beyond previously reported In2O3-x(OH)y catalyst in the cubic form under comparable operation conditions and more than 5 times higher than that of its rhombohedral polymorph. This result underscores that improvement in photo-thermocatalytic reactor design enables uniform light distribution and better reactant/catalyst mixing, thus significantly improving catalyst utilization.
AU - Elvis,Cao X
AU - Kaminer,Y
AU - Hong,T
AU - Schein,P
AU - Liu,T
AU - Hanrath,T
AU - Erickson,D
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101856
PY - 2020///
TI - HI-Light: A Glass-Waveguide-Based "Shell-and-Tube" Photothermal Reactor Platform for Converting CO2 to Fuels.
T2 - iScience
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101856
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33319177
VL - 23
ER -
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