摘要： Heat transfer in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen generation reactor system is studied numerically. Four different reactor designs are investigated in this work. Solar irradiation is spectrally separated into short and long wavelength parts depending on the energy band gap of the photoelectrode. The short wave energy is directed to the anode to generate electron and hole pairs, and the long wave energy is used for heating the reactor. Results indicate that the use of the excess long wave energy by careful reactor design can effectively increase the system efficiency. Comparing designs 1 and 4 under 6000 W/m2 irradiation and a quantum efficiency of 30%, the enhancement of the solar-to-hydrogen efficiency is respectively 12.7% and 18.2% for electrodes with Eg = 2.1 eV and 3.2 eV, such as Fe2O3 and TiO2. Effects of several parameters on the PEC hydrogen reactor system are discussed in details. ► Heat transfer in a PEC hydrogen generation reactor is studied numerically. ► Four different reactor designs are investigated. ► FLUENT 12.1 is used to perform the numerical computation. ► Using the excess long wave energy carefully effectively increases system efficiency. ► Effects of several parameters on the PEC hydrogen reactor system are discussed. 出版者： Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd 出版日期： 2012-09-01 出處： International journal of hydrogen energy, 2012-09, Vol.37 (17), p.13053-13059 資源來源： Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete 版權： 2012 Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. 版權： 2014 INIST-CNRS 識別號： ISSN: 0360-3199 識別號： EISSN: 1879-3487 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.05.009 識別號： CODEN: IJHEDX
