Our Consortium member DLR - The Federal Republic of Germany's research centre for aeronautics and space - is responsible for the development of the flux guide that illuminates the reactor homogenously with solar light. Moreover, they are the leaders of the WP3 (Design and manufacturing of reactor, secondary optics and

Life-Cycle Assessment of Innovative Solar-Based Methane/Carbon Monoxide Production Process Giorgio Bonvicini*1, Pasquale Pinto1, Sara Abd Alla1, Andrea Pestarino1, Kai Risthaus2, Jonathan van den Ham3, Nicole Meulendijks3, Pascal Buskens3   1 RINA Consulting S.p.A. – Via A. Cecchi, 6 – 16129 Genova, Italy 2 Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) - DLR, Institute of

A new H2020 project that will develop innovative photonic devices for highly efficient, sunlight-fueled chemical processes. The sun is a valuable source of energy. It can be used to produce electricity but it can also be stored into complex chemical molecules: the solar energy allows converting feedstocks such as carbon dioxide