naa a22 4500 510770630 CHVBK 20180411083212.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11837-013-0787-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11837-013-0787-9 Morphology Engineering of Porous Media for Enhanced Solar Fuel and Power Production [Elektronische Daten] [Silvan Suter, Sophia Haussener] The favorable and adjustable transport properties of porous media make them suitable components in reactors used for solar energy conversion and storage processes. The directed engineering of the porous media's morphology can significantly improve the performance of these reactors. We used a multiscale approach to characterize the changes in performance of exemplary solar fuel processing and solar power production reactors incorporating porous media as multifunctional components. The method applied uses imaging-based direct numerical simulations and digital image processing in combination with volume averaging theory to characterize the transport in porous media. Two samples with varying morphology (fibrous vs. foam) and varying size range (mm vs. μm scale), each with porosity between 0.46 and 0.84, were characterized. The obtained effective transport properties were used in continuum-scale models to quantify the performance of reactors incorporating multifunctional porous media for solar fuel processing by photoelectrochemical water splitting or power production by solar thermal processes. The Author(s), 2013 Suter Silvan Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut Haussener Sophia Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut JOM Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 65/12(2013-12-01), 1702-1709 1047-4838 65:12<1702 2013 65 11837 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0787-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0787-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Suter Silvan Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haussener Sophia Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- JOM Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 65/12(2013-12-01), 1702-1709 1047-4838 65:12<1702 2013 65 11837 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer