Thermal Stability of Chromium-Iron Oxidation Mixture Cermet-Based Solar Selective Absorbing Coatings.

Hongwen Yu,Jinkai Li,Hui Yan,Guangyuan Li,Wei Pang,Qian Zhang

doi:10.3390/molecules25051178

Abstract

The solar selective absorber coating (SSAC) are at the core of the efficient solar-thermal system. In this paper, for the first time, the Chromium-iron oxidation mixture cermet was successfully prepared on the surface of ultra-pure ferritic stainless steel by chemical coloring as SSAC. The coating surface has an optical trap structure, and the chromium-iron oxidation mixture cermet is used as an absorption layer to realize solar-thermal conversion. The solar absorptance (AM1.5) of the coating reached 93.66, and the thermal emittance was less than 13. After thermal shock tests at 25/300 °C done 32 times (accumulated 812.8 h), the Performance Criterion (PC) of the coating was 0.01375 < 0.05, showing outstanding thermal stability.

Highlights

Under the current trend of global energy shortage, the energy structure of the world is undergoing significant changes [1,2]
According to the analysis of global energy consumption in 2017, industrial energy accounted for 32% of global energy consumption, and 74% of industrial energy belongs to industrial heat
Without changing the coloring liquid composition, the working temperature was selected to be and the change in the coloring potential was observed through the coloring time

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Introduction

Under the current trend of global energy shortage, the energy structure of the world is undergoing significant changes [1,2]. 52% of industrial heat belongs to (below 400 ◦ C) medium–low-term and can be provided by solar or supplementary energy [3]. A variety of industrial processes demand vast amounts of thermal energy, which makes the industrial sector a promising market for solar thermal applications [4]. The SSAC with excellent performance is the core to realize the high efficiency thermal conversion of solar energy [5]. The ideal SSAC requires high solar absorptance (α) in 300-2500 nm and low emittance (ε) [6,7]. Oxides and nitrogen oxides, possessing with excellent thermal stability at high temperatures [10], the forbidden band width of ideal, good solar absorptance and thermal emittance, are gradually becoming a research hot spot

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