Iron Oxide Reactor Details Use Solar Heat to Drive system used to produce hydrogen on an industrial scale since 1900
Aug 08, 2015
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Use Solar Heat to Drive system used to produce hydrogen on an industrial scale since 1900
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
MokEnergy. William Mook originally developed the idea of iron rings to transport oxide and iron through a reactor and continued innovation to improve efficiency by recovering heat from exhaust gases and recycling that heat through the reactor.
Parabolic Dish. Richard Diver of Sandia stands in front of a 6.5 meter parabolic dish made of 228 stainless steel mirrors costing $100s per square meter.
MokEnergy. William Mook developed a proprietary method of creating 20.0 meter diameter dishes inflated with air and housed within stationary transparent spherical sockets also inflated with air that point in any direction and are impervious to wind loads. Made of PET plastic these dishes cost pennies per square meter - radically reducing costs associated with solar concentrating systems to pennies per square meter.
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Proprietary oxide transport
Proprietary concentratorand Tracking
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
MokEnergy. William Mook developed a low-cost molded plastic forms that when filled with water become a water filled lens that efficiently handles the intense energies generated by focused sunlight. Water flows continuously through the system and keeps it cool in a manner very similar to the way rocket engines keep cool.
Proprietary thermal control
Proprietary lens
Proprietary tower design
60% Efficient3% Efficient without recuperator
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Sunlight
MokEnergy. William Mook developed a low-cost molded plastic forms that when filled with water become a water filled lens that efficiently handles the intense energies generated by focused sunlight. Water flows continuously through the system and keeps it cool in a manner very similar to the way rocket engines keep cool.
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Sunlight
RotationMokEnergy. William Mook originally developed the idea of iron rings to transport oxide and iron through a reactor and continued innovation to improve efficiency by recovering heat from exhaust gases and recycling that heat through the reactor.
Proprietary oxide transport
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Sunlight
Rotation
Proprietary mirror technology
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Rotation
Sunlight
Proprietary reduction chemistry
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Rotation
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Rotation
Proprietary reduction chemistry
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
89.1% heat recycled
Water (high pressure)
W
W
W
W
Proprietary heat recovery
Iron Oxide Reactor Details
Lens
Iron Ring
Mirror
Iron Reduction
Oxygen Exhaust
Water Reduction
Hydrogen Exhaust
Recuperator
11,309.8 sq m collector area2.3 sq m iron reduction area
Sunlight
Water
Oxygen
Hydrogen
60% Efficient
3% Efficient without recuperator
Proprietary system design